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Leger started operating coach tour holidays between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, from their base in Rotherham, South Yorkshire since 1983. [3] [7] [8]The parent company, as of 2022, is Leger Shearings Group which is 70% owned by Ian and Kathleen Henry, with the remaining 30% owned by company directors, Liam Race, Andrew Oldfield and Chris Plummer.
[3] [4] The headquarters moved later to a permanent location at Raigmore House in 1941 [5] and the building reverted to hotel use and by the 1970s was trading as the "Royal Stuart Motor Hotel". [6] More recently known as the "Drumossie Hotel", it was operated by Shearings in the 1990s [7] but has since been acquired by Macdonald Hotels. [8]
Cosmos (formerly Cosmos Tours) is a UK independent tour operator providing a range of package holidays to the UK market. The tour operator is connected to the international Globus Travel Group, founded in 1928, which remains family owned with headquarters in Lugano, Switzerland.
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Transport can be via automobile, bus, or charter airline and may also include travel between areas as part of the holiday. Package holidays are a form of product bundling. Package holidays are organised by a tour operators and sold to consumers by a travel agents. Some travel agents are employees of tour operators, while others are independent.
Camping coaches were first introduced by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1933, when they positioned ten coaches in picturesque places around their network. [1]The following year, two other railway companies followed suit: the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, with what it originally called "caravans", and the Great Western Railway which called them "camp coaches".
This was followed in April 2005 with Wallace Arnold merging with Shearings in a £200,000,000 (equivalent to £377,194,000 in 2023) deal to become WA Shearings, claiming a 14% share of the UK coach holiday market. [1] [11] [12] In 2007 the Wallace Arnold name was dropped, with the company name simplified to Shearings Holidays. [13]
The distinction is not absolute, and some coach services, especially in Scotland, operate as local bus services over sections of route where there is no other bus service. Coach usage in the United Kingdom is a small fraction of that of rail, which has increased since privatisation in the mid-1990s. [1]