Tourist shuttle services on fixed routes and published timetables between the sites

A first step

Stand at the ticket office or car park of one heritage site for a day and ask visitors how they arrived, what it cost and where they go next. Draw up a timetable for one fixed route between two sites, print it, and ask the guesthouses along the route whether they would sell seats to their guests. The proof is advance bookings for the first week of runs.

Who pays first

Independent travellers on a budget who hire a car for want of anything else, and would book a seat on a published timetable instead.

What leaves today

A visitor who cannot move easily between sites sees fewer of them and spends less; reliable transport keeps them longer and spending more on the island.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. TwoAn Island Nobody Has Counted
  The harbour on the main sea lane
• Ch. FourteenThe List
  Defend the port before expanding it

More from cluster 22

• 426Motorbike courier networks in the districts for the small exporters' parcels
• 427Shared depots where twenty producers fill one container
• 428Refrigerated three-wheelers for the fish and dairy trades
• 430Airport transfer companies with drivers trained, insured and rated
• 431Luggage-forwarding for tourists, so they can walk the hills and meet their bags at the coast
• 432Bicycle hire and repair in the tourist towns and the flat districts

All 10 ideas in this cluster