Big Bus Tours, the world's leading operator of open top double decker bus sightseeing tours is proud to announce the neighborhood friendly expansion of the San Francisco tour into the picturesque town of Sausalito.

Big Bus Tours is the largest operator of hop-on hop-off sightseeing tours in the world and now operates in sixteen cities across three continents – Europe, Asia and North America. The company has a combined fleet of over three hundred buses carrying in excess of four million passengers per year. 

The Big Bus tour of San Francisco has long been acknowledged as the premier open top double decker bus service within the Bay Area and the addition of Sausalito into the tour route brings significant benefits to tourists and local businesses alike.  Sometimes reluctant to make the journey to Sausalito across the Golden Gate Bridge on their own, this addition to the route also provides passengers with the opportunity to hop off at Fort Baker which offers a unique and fascinating perspective of the city by the bay.

Conscious of ensuring that the natural beauty of Sausalito would not be impacted by this development, Big Bus Tours invested in environmentally friendly trolley buses that are less intrusive than the traditional double decker buses.  Use of these trolley buses ensures that tourists get to enjoy Sausalito, local businesses benefit from the economic gain, yet local residents are not disturbed by loud, heavy vehicles throughout the day.

Andrew Smith, General Manager, commented on this aspect of the expansion, “One of the fundamental aspects of the way that Big Bus Tours operates is our desire to be good neighbors in all of the cities where we do business.  Sausalito is a place of natural beauty and we were very mindful of the fact that we did not want to spoil this for people, our goal is to enhance the sightseeing experience and by using specialist vehicles for this section of the tour, we believe that we have achieved this”.

Tom Kiely, Executive Vice-President for Tourism at the San Francisco Travel Association, the city's official tourism and destination marketing organization, added, “Watching the expansion of a global brand such as Big Bus Tours in San Francisco is very exciting for us and we are delighted to count Big Bus Tours as one of our partners as we look forward to an exciting 2014”.

Big Bus Tours is the largest operator of open top double decker buses in the world and currently has operations in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, Washington DC, New York, London, Paris, Vienna, Istanbul, Rome, Budapest, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Muscat, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

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Ruth Best

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