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.

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.

<h2>Reliable Festival Travel for any Occasion</h2>

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>.

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.

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.

<h2>Professional Event Travel Management</h2>

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.

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;

Festival & Event Transport Solutions

The challenge

Massive Attack, one of Bristol’s most famed bands, played two huge homecoming gigs at the purpose-built Steel Yard at Filton Airfield in early spring 2019.

Each concert attracted an audience of 14,000 fans and working in partnership with the Big Green Coach Company (BGC), First Travel Solutions (FTS) were appointed by TravelWest to support the local transport provision between Bristol city centre and the venue.

Bristol City Council were keen to test the feasibility of the airfield as a venue and one of the main considerations was how transport could be delivered for thousands of attendees in a quick and efficient manner and in a way that didn’t cause significant local disruption.

The solution

FTS worked with BCG, the council and the concert organisers to develop a park and ride solution to connect the venue and concert attendees to the city centre.

FTS operated 70 plus buses, provided by colleagues from First West of England, a mobile ticket shop, in the form of a bus and on the ground co-ordinators.

Queuing systems were set up in the Broad Quay area of the city and buses called in as needed to avoid&nbsp; &nbsp; city centre congestion.

FTS also provided pre event consultancy and demand management assessment and were able to deploy their expertise in traffic management along the 6.5 mile route.

The result

The park ride operation was a massive success transporting thousands of concert goers to and from the venue and reducing the congestion impact on the local road network.

The feedback after the event provided enough evidence to prove that concerts could successfully be held there with specific praise given to the transport arrangements that were in place.&nbsp;

The main driver of public opinion as to the success of any outdoor event is the speed at which venues are safely cleared and FTS were able to meet and exceed council on such.

Local media also praised the efficiency of the bus operation.

Massive Attack

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