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Guide to assist in promotion of Scots larder

9 Mar 2010




Guidance on sourcing Scottish produce launched

9 Mar 2010


A NEW guide to help more visitor attractions and events planners showcase the very best of Scotland’s mouth-watering larder was unveiled yesterday.

‘A Taste for Events’ (www.EventScotland.org) offers simple and expert advice to anyone organising an event in Scotland. It provides contacts for local food groups, farmers’ markets, professional caterers and certification schemes – a comprehensive database of local producers and suppliers.



Underbelly breaks Edinburgh fringe ranks and goes on sale early

05 Mar 2010


Bosses of the Underbelly fringe venue have broken with convention and put tickets for three of their major Edinburgh Festival Fringe acts on sale on their website three months earlier than normal.

Meanwhile, the Edinburgh Festivals passport this week received recognition as a groundbreaking tourism business concept at Scottish Tourism Week with a £30,000 innovation award.

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Council celebrates one per cent growth in tourism

05 Mar 2010


TOURISM revenue in East Ayrshire grew by one per cent last year – an increase hailed as an ‘outstanding success’ by East Ayrshire Council

Outlook bright for tourism industry

5 Mar 2010


This week I attended the Scottish Tourism Week annual dinner in Edinburgh where the mood was comfortingly upbeat.

Peter Lederer, who is stepping down as chairman of VisitScotland at the end of the month after nine years in the role of overseeing the country's publicly-funded tourist promotion organisation, made some good points in his farewell speech.

 

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Lederer finds room for hotel funnies...

5 Mar 2010


VisitScotland chairman Peter Lederer kept his audience in fits of giggles during his farewell speech at the Scottish Tourism Forum dinner this week.

The veteran Gleneagles boss, who is stepping down as chairman of VisitScotland after nine years in the role, has kept a list of classic examples of mistranslations at hotels and restaurants around the world and shared a few of them. .Ahotel in Bucharest read: "The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret you will be unbearable." .An Italian hotel's publicity brochure said: "This hotel is renowned for its peace and solitude. In facts, crowds from all over the world flock hereto enjoy it."

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Scotland urged to cash in on sports 'refugees' from London Olympics

4 Mar 2010


SCOTLAND'S tourism industry was yesterday urged to target Londoners keen to leave the city during the 2012 Olympics.
Senior figures at a major conference in Edinburgh were told that locals trying to avoid a "packed, dirty and nightmarish" London could bring an unprecedented boost north of the Border.

Delegates heard estimates that some £300 million of economic
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Even tougher year ahead for Scottish tourism

02 March 2010


SCOTLAND'S tourism sector is braced for an even tougher year than 2009 due to a slump in business bookings, soaring costs and red-tape and the public spending squeeze, industry chiefs have warned.

John Lennon: Corporate market feeling the pinch

02 Mar 2010


There is no question that business tourism and the corporate sector has been very badly affected by the economic downturn and we have not really seen many signs of a recovery.

Scottish Economy on Chancellor's Agenda

02 Feb 2010


THEChancellor of the Exchequer will give the keynote speech at a conference about how Scotland's economy can recover from recession.

Alistair Darling will deliver the main address at next Friday's event in Edinburgh.

Other confirmed speakers are Colin Borland, public affairs manager for the Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland, Iain Herbert, chief executive of the Scottish Tourism Forum, Owen Kelly, chief executive of Scottish Financial Enterprise and David Watt, executive director of the Institute of Directors Scotland.

 

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