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No more tourist buses in Budapest?!
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Even though some tourism service providers have started to recover this summer, tourist bus operators are still in a critical situation. The circumstances are further aggravated by the issue of parking, as several attractions of Budapest will not be accessible by tourist buses soon.
As boat hotel tourism is already showing signs of life in Budapest, it would be necessary for local businesses – including tourist bus operators – to generate revenue from the recovery – said Gábor Dittel, Executive Secretary of the National Carrier Industry Association of Private Entrepreneurs. This could be resolved by an intensive organisation of sightseeing programs for tourist groups and the accessibility of the touristic sights included in the programs by bus.
However, as a result of the pandemic, tourist bus operators are still in a critical situation aggravated by additional issues.
In addition to the currently negligible backlog of orders, a further negative factor is that several boat hotels in Budapest are collaborating with Swiss and German bus partners who also transport the groups to nearby attractions
– reported by the Hungarian news portal Világgazdaság. As a result, the classical sightseeing tourist buses of Budapest fail to reach the most popular attractions of the Hungarian capital.
In an ideal world, these tourist buses would all be electric. The pollution they pump out, especially when idling in traffic, is really bad.