Big Bus Tours has announced the launch of its open-top sightseeing tours in Dublin, the 20th city in its global portfolio.
Introducing the first Big Bus Dublin bus to the city, was the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Nial Ring, who cut the ribbon at bus stop 1, 13 Upper O?Connell Street, alongside Phil Boggon, EVP of Western Europe at Big Bus Tours, David McConn, MD of Big Bus Dublin and Mark Rowlette from Failte Ireland (all pictured).
The launch follows the recent signing of an agreement between Big Bus Tours and the Dualway Group to acquire the company?s Dublin based hop-on, hop-off sightseeing tour operated by Irish City Tours.
Alex Payne, the operator?s CEO, said: ?Dublin is a world class tourism destination that is seeing strong growth in visitor numbers year on year. It complements the Big Bus portfolio perfectly, and will bring us another step closer to our vision, to become the number one thing to do in every world famous city. As an ?owner-operator?, Big Bus Tours is able to use its global portfolio to develop best practices for use across all its cities and deliver high standards of customer service, which has resulted in Big Bus Tours being ranked the number 1 bus tour on TripAdvisor in the open-top sightseeing category, in almost every city we operate in.?
Dublin joins a portfolio of other famous European cities served by the operator including, London, Paris, Rome, Budapest, Vienna and Istanbul.
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