<p>Organisers of major events have safe and smooth travel as key priorities while also ensuring that customers enjoy themselves. In events, quick and safe arrivals and departures are important for ensuring everything runs as efficiently as possible. At First Travel Solutions, we believe in providing expert festival travel services for all our clients.</p>

<p>We’ll take festival and event visitors directly where they wish to go, providing festival bus hire to large groups. Make your event pain-free with expert event travel management that offers your event visitors reliable transportation.</p>

<h2>Reliable Festival Travel for any Occasion</h2>

<p>Over the years, we have created bespoke and seamless transport services for music events such as Parklife, Boomtown and Leeds Festival. These events draw thousands of visitors each year from across the country, so it can certainly be a challenge to ensure they are transported safely and without delay. However, it’s a challenge that we’re more than capable of handling. <a href="https://firsttravelsolutions.com/case-studies/leeds-festival-2016">Here’s how we handled Leeds Festival in 2016</a>.</p>

<p>How do we do this? We draw on our extensive network of trusted operators to provide both drivers and vehicles. To help organise the whole operation, our trained coordinators are on the ground to ensure efficient ticket sales, seamless vehicle loading and transfers, and to respond quickly should delays start to arise.</p>

<p>This is all overseen by our round-the-clock control centre, which is able to respond swiftly to any problems and provide precise vehicle tracking. Organisers can focus on their line-up, while festival goers can relax and enjoy the show, knowing they can get home safety when the music stops.</p>

<h2>Professional Event Travel Management</h2>

<p>Our team is highly experienced in event travel management, delivering solutions and reliable services. Safety is one of our top priorities, which is why we ensure that we provide only the best festival travel. We understand how big event organisers need to rely on high-quality solutions and we’re here to deliver.</p>

<p>Do you want to know more about our festival coach hire service? For further details, please call 0345 528 0270 or email <a href="mailto:travel.solutions@firstgroup.com">travel.solutions@</a><a href="mailto:travel.solutions@firstbus.co.uk">firstbus.co.uk</a>. Our team is here to help you find the event travel management solution that fits your company’s individual needs.&nbsp;</p>


Festival & Event Transport Solutions

<h2>The Challenge</h2>

<p>Leeds Festival has become one of the UK’s biggest rock events. It attracts major headline acts to the 75,000-capacity Bramham Park venue over the August bank holiday weekend.</p>

<p>The scale of the event presents logistical challenges for the promoters, Festival Republic – not least the safe and smooth transfer of festivalgoers to the site on the outskirts of Leeds.</p>

<p>Transport was required to cater for a steady stream of new arrivals throughout the event, regular shuttles into the city centre and a local supermarket and the transportation of all the festivalgoers to the bus and train stations in Leeds. After the 2015&nbsp;programme wrapped up, the sheer amount of traffic on local roads around the site created long delays for departing festivalgoers.</p>

<h2>The Solution</h2>

<p>First Travel Solutions provided all transport needs for the 2016 festival, drawing on buses from the First Group fleet as well as its wider network of trusted and accredited suppliers.</p>

<p>Throughout the five days of the event, buses brought festivalgoers from the bus and railway stations in Leeds city centre. At the beginning and end of the festival, services also ran to and from York, linking with the East Coast rail line. In all, 23,000 people travelled on these services.</p>

<p>In addition, some 7,500 festivalgoers used a shuttle bus between the site and a superstore in the vicinity, allowing them to pick up supplies.</p>

<p>We also supplied 16 ground staff, who oversaw efficient loading of the buses and sold tickets. To maximise the efficiency of this process, a special retail website enabled pre-sales and ground staff were equipped to accept card payments as well as exchange pre-sold tickets for wrist bands.</p>

<h2>The Result</h2>

<p>Logistics for the festival ran smoothly, supported by the use of 59 buses a day.</p>

<p>The biggest challenge that arose was on the Sunday night and Monday, when traffic on the approach road became snarled up due to the volume of departures. When the buses’ travel time became extended, we acted to save those passengers still on site from a protracted wait. We kept the buses running longer, sourced additional buses and sent them to the site immediately to reduce the delays.</p>


Leeds Festival 2016

The Challenge

The Solution

The Result

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