Hot ticket: 25 bespoke travel plans up for grabs Staff at 25 county businesses could be the lucky recipients of cheaper travel to work, thanks to StagecoachWest. To celebrate 25 years of Stagecoach serving the West, they are offering the first 25 businesses who contact their team the opportunity to enjoy complimentary benefits of a corporate travel plan. Firms including the NHS, University of Gloucestershire and Gloucester Services all benefit from bespoke travel schemes, offering staff travel assistance to and from work. “This year Stagecoach West celebrates 25 years in business and one of the ways we are marking that is by offering to visit the first 25 businesses which contact us to talk them through how they can benefit from our corporate travel scheme,” said Rupert Cox, the managing director of StagecoachWest. “The main benefit is that it has the potential to save businesses and their staff money with cheaper travel. Any organisation, regardless of size turnover can sign up and enable their staff to get their one-off amazing deal.” James O'Neill, commercial manager for StagecoachWest, said:“We will get in touch with the first 25 firms that contact us and discuss their needs with them. “We can tailor our service to fit their needs, as we know one scheme doesn’t fit all. We have a variety of different options available to ensure that we can meet your individual needs and save you money. “If they need a bus to go somewhere new, to
What are the benefits of free travel planning with StagecoachWest? • Reduce workplace parking demands and, where applicable, parking costs • Offer alternative, and often more environmentally friendly, methods of transport for your staff • Discounted employee bus travel - making travel more affordable • Act as an additional employee benefit to working for your organisation • Help you to work towards your sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and carbon footprint objectives • Make use of the increasing bus priority lanes • Make the most of travel time to catch up on emails using freeWiFi on Stagecoach Gold services What are the solutions StagecoachWest currently offer? • On-bus discount tickets - reduced fares on single daily and weekly tickets for employees. All they need to do is show a staff pass. This is more widely known as the popular Greener Travel Initiative (GTI) scheme. • Season tickets /app – Offer discounted Megarider tickets to employees. These are perfect for regular commuters. Tickets are loaded onto a Stagecoach Smartcard or app, meaning no more hunting for paper tickets and quicker boarding. Or tickets are available via the free Stagecoach Bus App. • Bespoke services - if you need a bus to go to somewhere new, Stagecoach can make that happen. They can alter routes or even add a new bus to serve your workplace. FACT: If just one of your employees switched from travelling by car to bus travel for just one week, they could save enough energy to power 7,430 minutes of TV*, that’s nearly 118 episodes of Game of Thrones. * Figures obtained from Stagecoach Group's Carbon Calculator. Based on the average commuter travelling 9 miles to their place of work.
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