What are tour buses and How to Start a Tourist Transportation Service? They are used to ferry tourists from one destination to another. As the number of tourists increases, year after year so does the demand for transit services. Think about it, tourists aren't going to travel to a country with their fancy cars or bikes. When they travel to a new destination, they need an affordable, comfortable, and luxurious transporter to hob nob them from one hot spot to another. They will need assistance to reach the hotel from the airport. Then from the hotel, they will need assistance to travel to the various hot spots in the city. If a city has 10 sites of tourist attraction, does one expect tourists to search for a taxi every time they move to the next destination? And even if they do, the cab ride would be expensive which they could save for themselves otherwise. How to start your own transportation service? Of course, a multi-seater shuttle vehicle will be needed to carry large groups of tourists together. New shuttles are expensive and the cost of operating and maintaining them can financially cripple a start-up. Therefore, it's better to buy one that is already used, has less than 200,000 miles, is less than a decade old, and has one previous owner from licensed dealerships. Their life spans up to 300,000 miles. So, if they already have 150,000 miles, they can still be used for another 150,000. Continue reading....