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Top 25 Tour bus operators based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 497 tour bus operators headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 4,193 professional contacts across them, including 932 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers tour bus operators headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest tour bus operators based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 538 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Big Bus Tours is the world’s largest operator of open-top sightseeing tours, inspiring the spirit of adventure in 25+ world-famous cities across four continents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “McGill’s Bus Group is the UK’s largest independently owned bus company, proudly family-owned since 1933.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Golden Tours is London’s leading sightseeing company and part of the Gray Line Worldwide Association.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “City Sightseeing is the World's leading open-top bus, boat and guided walking tour company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Leger Shearings Group is the UK's largest escorted coach tour operator, offering self-drive breaks, holidays to the UK and Europe, specialist Battlefield Tours, and educational…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “G Touring, is the touring division of G Adventures founder Bruce Poon Tip’s business interests, and operates the market leading brands Travelsphere and Just You.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a leading coach operator located in North West England, with an enviable reputation for providing quality, reliability and value for money based on over 50 years’…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Part of the Alfa Leisureplex Group, Alfa Travel is the UK's fastest growing Coach Tour Operator specialising in coach holidays throughout Britain and Europe for the over 50's…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Oceandusk is an inbound tour operator specialising in FIT and Group bookings, airport transfers, and chauffeur and sightseeing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Business travel and coach hire in Hampshire Established in 1926, Lucketts Travel has been running for over 90 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “National Express Transport Solutions is comprised of the UK’s leading coach hire specialists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Premium Tours was established back in 2002.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Part of The Coach Travel Group, The Kings Ferry is the leading private coach hire specialist in the south east, with an outstanding reputation for hire coach and commuter services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Roberts Travel Group was founded in 1995 by our CEO, Jonathan Hunt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Travel Solutions is a Belfast based tour operator selling short break and longer stay holidays to an established and growing customer base throughout Ireland ~ north and south.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are one of the largest coach travel and holiday firms in the West.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We provide a bespoke service from a chauffeur driven car to a multi vehicle event carrying thousands of passengers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Hearn's, one of London's leading coach hire and ground transport solution providers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Over the past 40 years, Swans Travel has grown into one of the UK's leading passenger transport companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 25 years Anderson Travel have been successfully providing first-class coach travel, airport transfers and great value for money sightseeing day and weekend tours throughout…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1982, Ausden Clark began its life in a humble maintenance garage on Barkby Road in Leicester, with a specialisation in truck maintenance and repair.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “One of the leading, award winning 'group travel' tour operators in the UK for both incoming and outgoing tourism serving London, Great Britain, Europe and Worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Now part of The Coach Travel Group, we combine decades of experience with enhanced services to meet the needs of every customer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Prospect Coaches is one of the regions largest independant coach companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: tour bus operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names tour bus operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of tour bus operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name tour bus operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Tour bus operators based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 497 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among tour bus operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “tour bus operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names tour bus operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among tour bus operators, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 932 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names tour bus operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many tour bus operators are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 497 tour bus operators headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
BIG BUS Tours, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most tour bus operators?
London leads with 68 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (9) and Birmingham (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 932 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 497 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.