Scottish tourism events
The Forum organises events and seminars throughout the year for tourism businesses. We regularly add new events, please see the listings below.
If you are interested in attending any of the events or wish to be put onto our news alerts database, contact Elaine Townsend (telephone 0131 220 6321).
And for advance warning of all events, please sign up for our free news alerts.
Events listing:
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2008
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STF Open Meeting
Wednesday 3rd December 2008, Venue to be confirmed
To register please email: elaine@stforum.co.uk
STF AGM and Open Meeting
Thursday 2nd October 2008, Venue to be confirmed
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STF Open Meeting
Wednesday 4th June 2008, Perth Racecourse
'Raising the Bar and Jumping Higher: Increasing Tourism Businesses Profit Potential'
Sponsored by The Caravan Club this year's first Open Meeting will explore how you can grow and expand your business with examples by industry professionals. Full agenda will be available over the next few days.
To register please email: events@stforum.co.uk or call 0131 220 6321
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25th April 2008: E - business workshop in Kirkwall
Highlands & Islands Enterprise, in parnership with the Scottish Tourism Forum and VisitScotland, bring a workshop, designed specifically for people involved in the tourist industry, to your local area. Click on the link above for more information.
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31st March 2008: E - business workshop in Lerwick
Highlands & Islands Enterprise, in parnership with the Scottish Tourism Forum and VisitScotland, bring a workshop, designed specifically for people involved in the tourist industry, to your local area. Click on the link above for more information.
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19th March 2008: E - business workshop in Wick
Highlands & Islands Enterprise, in parnership with the Scottish Tourism Forum and VisitScotland, bring a workshop, designed specifically for people involved in the tourist industry, to your local area. Click on the link above for more information.
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- Scottish Tourism Week 2008 will take place from 4th-11th March.
Highlights include the major tourism conference Scotland United and an industry dinner which will celebrate the industry's achievements.
View more information. - 2007
- STF Open Meeting
- 5th December 2007. Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow.
'Rising to the Event; profiting through event collaboration' - we explored how tourism businesses can best profit from events and festivals. Click on the link above for more info. - HIE and STF E-Tourism Workshop Series Oct 07 - March 08
- HIE and STF have been running a new series of instructor led e-tourism workshops designed specifically for tourism businesses. The aim is to help your business utilise the full benefits of the information economy.
- STF AGM and Open Meeting
- 4th October 2007. Discovery Point, Dundee.
STF's annual members AGM was followed by an industry meeting open to all. Click on the link above for full details. Speakers included Nell Nelson (Presenter of The Woman Who Ate Scotland) and Pete Irvine. - Tourism E-Business Roadshows
- 19th April - 1st Nov 2007: STF's popular web workshops, supported by Scottish Enterprise, took place across Scotland. Suitable for everyone, from web novices to the internet friendly, these great value events were extremely popular with delegates.
- Scottish Tourism Week 2007
- 12th - 16th March 2007: Visit the Scottish Tourism Week section for a complete list of events which took place during the week.
- E-Commerce Roadshows, Highlands and Islands
- 23 Jan - 30 March 2007: STF's popular series of web workshops took place aross the Highlands at the beginning of the year and received fantastic feedback, from businesses who attended.
2006
- STF Open Meeting
- 5th Dec 2006. Macdonald Inchyre Grange Hotel: STF explored how businesses could profitably achieve the 50% growth ambitions outlined in the Tourism Framework for Change. View info on this popular industry meeting.
- Scotland's Strategic Future: Tourism
- 20th November 2006, De Vere Cameron House, Loch Lomond: View info on this strategic policy event where delegates worked together to identify how the industry can achieve the objective of a 50% growth in tourism revenue and also discussed the barriers to tourism growth.
- Tourism Framework for Change™
- 7th March 2007: launch of The Tourism Framework for Change strategy. Former Tourism Minister Patricia Ferguson and Peter Taylor, Chair of the Scottish Tourism Forum, outlined new industry led actions that will help to achieve 50 per cent growth in tourism revenue by 2015.
- Scottish Tourism Week 2006
- 27th to 31st March 2006: the Forum launched the first Scottish Tourism Week - a series of events across the country designed to raise the profile of tourism as Scotland's most important and sustainable industry, and awareness of opportunities for Scottish businesses.
- Scottish Tourism Week 2008 will take place from 4th-11th March.
