Two days of coastal filming, with the production crew and featured participants staying in different towns. MCR EXEC supplied two Mercedes V-Classes, each retained for 12 hours per day, to support Tripadvisor’s tourism shoot across Lancashire and Merseyside. Reliable tourism production transport was essential to keeping the project running smoothly.
This project highlighted the unique challenges of production work related to tourism and the need for coordinated transport services. Specifically, this tourism production transport assignment took place in February 2026 and was booked directly by Tripadvisor’s producers. The objective was to create promotional content showcasing North West coastal destinations, with filming around Blackpool, Lytham St Annes, Southport, Formby and Crosby.
Our part in the shoot was straightforward: collect the team, move people and equipment between locations, and remain available while filming took place. The cameras focused on the destinations and featured participants. The V-Classes provided the transport behind that work, exemplifying essential tourism production transport logistics.
The first day began with the travelling groups based in different places. The principal featured participant was staying in Lytham, while the production crew was staying in Blackpool. As a result, effective planning for tourism production transport was critical.
One V-Class served the Lytham accommodation and the other served the crew in Blackpool. That arrangement also accounted for the separate accommodation drop-offs, rather than treating the whole booking as one group travelling from a single hotel.
The participants and crew made their own way to the region before the assignment. MCR EXEC’s booking covered the two production days and their local movements, which demonstrates the importance of tourism production transport.
The opening day covered Blackpool and Lytham St Annes. With both vehicles retained throughout the 12-hour booking, the chauffeurs moved the team between the required locations and waited while the production carried out its work, showing the seamless integration of tourism production and transport logistics.
These journeys formed part of a destination campaign. The crew needed time at each location to create the promotional material, followed by transport to the next stop. Our vehicles remained allocated to the production during those intervals, supporting the whole tourism production transport process.
The photograph outside the Grand Hotel records one part of the transport arrangement. Alongside the filming images, it provides a view of the support that took place away from the finished campaign’s shots.
The second day moved the production to Southport, Formby and Crosby. Both V-Classes were again retained for 12 hours, supporting the team as filming continued around the region. Thus, tourism production would not have progressed without reliable transport support.
The photographs from this part of the assignment include the vehicles outside the Vincent Hotel in Southport and at Formby Hall. They show the same two-vehicle arrangement continuing across the locations involved in the visit, exemplifying well-organised tourism production transport plans.
Much of a chauffeur’s time on this assignment was spent waiting while the team worked on location. That availability was part of the booking: the vehicles needed to be ready for the next movement when filming at a stop was complete, showing the flexibility of tourism production transport solutions.
The chauffeurs also held equipment in the vehicles while the team was working elsewhere. The transport brief therefore involved both moving passengers and providing somewhere for equipment to remain between location activities, which is a hallmark of quality tourism production transport.
There was no filming inside the V-Classes as part of our role, and we are not aware of the vehicles appearing in the finished campaign. The focus was on supporting the team’s movements throughout the two days.
The beach photograph and short video show the production at work on Crosby Beach. Cameras, sound equipment and umbrellas are visible as the team films on the shoreline, with tourism production transport playing a background but important role.
These images capture the setting for the campaign. Our transport work took place around those filming sessions, with vehicles retained to carry the team and its equipment onwards as part of our tourism transport production service.
Filming on Crosby Beach during the Tripadvisor assignment. Open or download the behind-the-scenes video.
A useful transport brief for a destination shoot accounts for where people are staying as well as where they will film. For this assignment, separate accommodation in Lytham and Blackpool, two vehicles and two full production days were central to the arrangement. Good planning for tourism production transport ensures everything runs seamlessly.
For similar work, full-day chauffeur hire can be discussed around the location schedule. Helpful details include:
These details allow the transport plan to reflect the production’s itinerary and the different groups travelling within it, ensuring the tourism production transport is perfectly tailored.
Tourism boards, agencies and brands arranging visits around a shoot can book airport transfers and wider business travel through our corporate chauffeur service.
MCR EXEC provides film and TV production transport for crews and featured participants working across the North West. Tourism production transport requirements can be discussed in detail to ensure your project runs smoothly. Send your shoot dates, accommodation details and location schedule to discuss vehicle availability.
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