Entries by Lesley

Discover Monthly Scottish Twitter Travel Chat Scotlandhour

The Scottish Twitter travel and tourism chat Scotlandhour was founded in early 2011 by tweeter, avid traveller and proud Glaswegian Dougie Baird. As well as spawning multiple “hour” chats on Twitter across the world, our monthly #scotlandhour chat has also had some interesting developments of its own including: Being the subject of a motion and […]

Destination Leaders Programme Summer News

Destination Leaders Programme Scotland – Summer 2016 Updates DLP Year 3 Graduate on 19 May 2016 Congratulations to the latest DLP 3 cohort of twenty-one Glasgow and Edinburgh industry professionals, (pictured above) who graduated from the Destination Leaders programme at Edinburgh Napier University on 19 May, with the 2015/2016 intake producing what was agreed to be an excellent round of group projects […]

Love Loch Lomond in Unique Collaboration to Attract New Visitors

A new tourism collaboration designed to boost the number of short breaks taken in Glasgow and Loch Lomond has been awarded £34,000 by VisitScotland. Destination marketing organisations Love Loch Lomond and Glasgow City Marketing Bureau (GCMB) have joined forces with ScotRail for a £68,000 marketing campaign, match-funded via the national tourism organisation’s Growth Fund. Aimed […]

A Tourism Journey of Discovery in North Iceland

I recently returned from a week’s tourism learning journey to North Iceland, otherwise known as North Iceland Culinary Experience: Innovate, Develop, Taste! (NICE). Like the rest of my group I’m buzzing with ideas about how to share what I’ve learned with others in my industry and beyond and look forward to working on this in the […]

Travel Massive Edinburgh Welcomes The World

Travel Massive Edinburgh welcomed the world on Thursday 27 August, with event sponsors Festivals Edinburgh at the G&V Royal Mile Hotel and a strong turn-out from the local travel community. With six international festivals in full swing in the city, including the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, bringing […]

Flying Scotsmen Welcome £1m Tourism Investment for Loch Ness

New vessel ‘The Rebel’ swaps French Riviera for Scotland’s Highland Haven to help more visitors hunt for Nessie Leading UK cruise operator Loch Ness by Jacobite unveiled a new vessel on Thursday 20 August to take even more tourists along Scotland’s largest loch. Launched by ‘flying Scotsmen’ in kilts, the new boat is one of […]