Coach tour operator David Urquhart Travel announced on 4 May that it is winding up its business as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
The East Kilbride based-business was founded in 1983 and claims to be Britain’s biggest privately owned coach tour company. It has worked with many coach operators around the UK.
In its statement, the company says: ‘The ongoing coronavirus crisis has had a dramatic impact on all business sectors but especially within travel and tourism. At present it is impossible to establish when coach tour and hotel operations will return to normal operating capacity.
‘The directors have been carefully considering these matters and have made the decision, in the absence of acquisition from interested parties, to wind up the coach tour business in an orderly manner over the next few months.’
It applied to the Court of Session to enter into a company voluntary arrangement to protect it from creditors. ‘This is not a decision which has been taken lightly,’ the statement adds. ‘The coach tour company has served loyal customers for more than 37 years throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom and Ireland and has been a prominent figure within the leisure and hospitality industry.
