Skip to main content
Go back

Group Travel

Black and white photograph of a group of people in front of a passenger bus in 1932. Behind the bus, you can see some houses in the village of Percé and the mountains that form the coast. On the bus is written Montreal Vancouver Coast to Coast New York Los Angeles.

Photograph

Bus service, Gaspé Peninsula, about 1932

Canadian National Railways

Library and Archives Canada

PA-803553

Getting to the Gaspé has often meant travelling in groups. For many tourists, their first visit to a new part of the world is in a group. The barriers that keep visitors away – like  language, distance and haggling for prices – are just one of the many reasons that many travellers prefer to travel together, particularly in the first trip to a foreign country or a new destination.

As soon as there were roads into the region, groups followed. The Gaspé tour remains one of the most popular destinations for first-time travellers to Québec. In the past, group tours were mostly for Canadians and Americans; today luxurious coaches usher visitors from France, China and many other countries.