- Escorted coach touring was particularly hard hit when the economic decline first started to emerge in North America.
- But coach tour travellers are resilient, and there was always the prospect that this vitally important market sector would rebound quickly once economic recovery started to emerge.
- To see if this is actually beginning to happen, ITIC spoke with Marc Kazlauskas, President of Insight Vacations, Europe's premier escorted tour operator, and a great supporter of Irish tourism for many years.
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