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	SCOTTISH TOURISM WEEK
	Tuesday October 29, 2002

SCOTTISH WINTER SKIING OPENS EARLY Blizzard conditions swept the Highlands allowing many of the ski centres to open early - only the second time in 20 years they have been able to do so in October. The Cairngorm Ski Centre gave the early season skiers a bit of a pre-season bonus by opening a couple of runs on the weekend (26th/27th October). Any further opening before the official start of the season is totally dependent on local weather conditions. CairnGorm Mountain will be closed from at least 4th to 14th November for its annual pre-winter season maintenance programme. The new season will include for, the first time, the new CairnGorm Funicular railway along with the resort's other uphill equipment. Skiers and snowboarders will be carried directly to and from The Ptarmigan along with non-skier visitors as during the other summer season months. The last weekend of the October holidays is always very busy, and this year there were large numbers of non-skier visitors using the funicular to reach the Ptarmigan restaurant, the Shop at the Top and the Mountain Experience exhibition. For further information see www.cairngormmountain.com NEW DISTILLERY FOR FIFE The Ladybank Distillery which will provide a number of new jobs, a whisky school, and links with the tourism and golf industries, is to be created on a redundant farm steading near Cupar, based at Rankeillour Estate and see production begin next year. By producing only small quantities, the distillery will be the smallest in Scotland. Ladybank will also be the permanent home of The Whisky School, which established a hands-on practical programme last year at Bladnoch Distillery. Groups of enthusiasts will be able to attend courses where they study the whisky making process from the malting of the barley to filling a cask. TOWN HOUSE TAKES OVER TIMESHARE The Town House Company is set to transform the fortunes of a selection of timeshare flats in Edinburgh’s West End. The company which operates such establishments as the Bonham, Channings and the Howard, will take over from Citrus Hotels Ltd to run the 29 flats. The acquisition will allow the Edinburgh Residence owners to be part of the wider family of hotels and specifically benefit from preferential offers at Restaurant at the Bonham, which is only a few doors away. The Town House Company was founded by Peter and Mhairi Taylor in 1995. It owns three Edinburgh hotels: Channings in the New Town, the Howard on Great King Street, and the Bonham located in the West End, regarded as one of Scotland’s trendiest hotels. EVERYONE URGED TO HELP TOURISM IN BANFF AND BUCHAN Maureen Watt, the chairwoman of the Banff and Buchan Tourism Forum, stated that partnership working was required for the area to realise its full-tourism potential. The message came in the run-up to the Banff and Buchan forum's annual meeting taking place at the Macduff marine aquarium. At the annual meeting, the chairman of Macduff aquarium's friends' support group, Sydney Mair, will speak about the success of the aquarium and future plans. The new folders project will also be discussed for which Banff and Buchan councillors gave a grant of £500. Forum members will be encouraged to use them in the hope of increasing visitor numbers to the area and persuading holidaymakers to extend their stay. They believe that high-quality folders containing relevant information will enhance the reputation of the area. At the annual meeting, a new forum committee will be elected. SHORT BREAK MARKETING STRATEGY FROM SBTB NOMINATED FOR MAJOR AWARD Staff at the Scottish Borders Tourist Board (SBTB) were celebrating this week after the board’s short break marketing strategy was nominated for a major award. The activity nominated is the Scottish Borders’ positioning as Scotland’s leading short break destination. The entry has been shortlisted to within the last five in the Public Sector Category of the Scottish Marketing Awards. All areas of the board’s activities are being developed in line with the new strategy ranging from the provision of visitor information and promotional literature, to road signage on all entry points to the Borders. The Awards are judged by a panel of twelve experts including Professors of Marketing at Starthclyde and Glasgow Caledonian Universities, Scottish Enterprise’s Director of Marketing and the Senior Vice President of Marketing for Hilton International. The winner will be announced in Edinburgh on Friday 22 November. HOW TO GET "FULLY BOOKED" The success of the 'Fully Booked' pilot programme in Edinburgh last year, is already proving extremely popular since its pan-Scotland launch in October. There are a variety of workshops across the country. Developed by Scottish Enterprise, ‘Fully Booked’ offers you a one day practical workshop followed by two hours of individual, hands on advice. Participants will work together on a range of tourism related case studies and will be given a practical, targeted 'toolkit' designed to determine an action plan for the business. Over 200 tourism companies benefited from the pilot last year with each reporting an average of 15% growth in their business from the new approaches introduced to them by the programme. FALKIRK WHEEL NAMED AS ONE OF SEVEN WONDERS The Falkirk Wheel has been named as one of the 'Seven Wonders of the Inland Waterways', yet another accolade just four months after it was opened by Her Majesty The Queen. The unique rotating boat lift has found itself listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the modern waterways, putting Falkirk and Scottish waterways firmly on the world map of top waterway marvels. British Waterways and The Waterways Trust launched a nation-wide survey at the beginning of summer to find those waterway engineering structures that deserved recognition as world beaters. The survey was intended to update a list of 7 marvels originally drawn up 50 years ago when the waterways were in decline and campaigners were trying to save them. CHRISTMAS SPIRIT AT SELKIRK The programme for the Scottish Borders annual Scott’s Selkirk Historical Christmas Fair has been announced. The festivities for the event held in the Royal Burgh of Selkirk (Saturday 30 November and Sunday 1 December) have been finalised and organisers say this year looks set to be another roaring success. The magical event offers locals and visitors a chance to step back in time to the 19th century and celebrate the days when the great writer Sir Walter Scott was sheriff of Selkirk. Hoteliers, restaurateurs along with many other participants have been busy putting the finishing touches to their homemade Georgian costumes, which they will wear throughout the weekend. The festivities and fun will kick off on Saturday morning (30th November 2002) when a Sir Walter Scott look-a-like will ride into town followed by a period horse drawn carriage rides around the town and Living History re-enactments of Sir Walter Scott’s court case followed by a Torchlight parade. WIND FARMS DO NOT DETER TOURISTS The belief that wind farms deter tourists from visiting some of Scotland’s top beauty spots is not true, according to the results of a survey. Nine out of ten people questioned said the presence of wind farms made no difference to the enjoyment of their holiday - and more said they had a positive effect on their choice of destination. In the survey of more than 300 visitors to Argyll, commissioned by the Scottish Renewables Forum, 91 per cent said the presence of wind farms in the area made no difference to whether they would return. SCOTTISH BORDERS TOURIST BOARD GOES GREEN The Scottish Borders Tourist Board has become the first area tourist board in the country to collect an award through the Green Tourism Business Scheme. The Scheme, developed by VisitScotland, has been established to encourage tourism businesses of all types to improve their environmental efficiency and in the process save money and add a new dimension to their marketing proposition There are three levels of accreditation which can be made under the scheme, Bronze which marks good basic environmental practice, Silver for very good practices or Gold, the top award which denotes excellence in environmental practices. The Scottish Borders Tourist Board gained a Silver Award and hope that more of their member businesses will sign up for the scheme. It is very simple to get involved and has many benefits including reducing waste, saving money and adding another reason why tourists should come and stay or visit. Useful Links http://www.green-business.co.uk	MAIL TO THE EDITOR

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	THIS WEEK'S NEWS SCOTTISH WINTER SKIING OPENS EARLY NEW DISTILLERY FOR FIFE TOWN HOUSE TAKES OVER TIMESHARE EVERYONE URGED TO HELP TOURISM IN BANFF AND BUCHAN SHORT BREAK MARKETING STRATEGY FROM SBTB NOMINATED FOR MAJOR AWARD HOW TO GET "FULLY BOOKED" FALKIRK WHEEL NAMED AS ONE OF SEVEN WONDERS CHRISTMAS SPIRIT AT SELKIRK WIND FARMS DO NOT DETER TOURISTS SCOTTISH BORDERS TOURIST BOARD GOES GREEN

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SCOTTISH GOLF TRADE NEWS
	Monday, October 28, 2002

*Please forward to a friend or colleague.* NEW GOLF FACILITY FOR DEESIDE Aspire to Golf is hoping to build a new golf centre at the Haugh of Ardoe, less than a mile from the Ardoe House hotel on the south side of the river. As well as a 30-bay floodlit driving range, the facility would include target greens, practice putting green, chipping and short game improvement area and a four-hole short golf course. It would also feature a cafe and shop and be situated just off the South Deeside Road. Residents on both sides of the Dee have raised concerns about the possible impact of the development on the surrounding environment. But developers claim the centre will enhance the local environment and that tree screening will mean residents are not affected by flood- lights. Aberdeenshire Council's planning committee are expected to discuss the matter during November. LEUCHARS - DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIAN TERMINAL FOR GOLFERS Air force chiefs have launched a major marketing campaign to persuade the world�s richest golfers to land their private planes at RAF Leuchars. They have sent 20,000 leaflets to luxury holiday companies and five-star hotels to persuade their clientele to use the Tornado fighter base as a convenient landing strip, with easy access to the famous St Andrews courses. They are even in advanced negotiations with private contractors about building a small civilian terminal to cater for the throngs of multi-millionaires. While golfs great stars have used the base for tournaments on an ad hoc basis in the past, senior officers believe they can attract 750 flights a year - generating £300,000. With St Andrews just five miles away and armed guards on the gates, they are confident it will become one Scotland’s most exclusive private airport for the rich and famous. The RAF’s determination to crack the luxury golf market was vindicated two weeks ago when many golfers competing in the Dunhill pro-celeb tournament at the Old Course at St Andrews, Carnoustie in Angus and Kingbarns near St Andrews, flew into the base. Former racing driver Nigel Mansell and golfers Ernie Els, Colin Montgomerie and Darren Clarke all opted for Leuchars over Edinburgh or Glasgow. Leuchars can accommodate jets as large as Boeing 737s, considerably larger than Dundee, its nearest rival. Landing charges for Leuchars are similar to those at civilian airstrips, as the base is not allowed to pose "unfair competition" to civilian operators. The RAF is negotiating with 15 private companies over a terminal, which may go ahead in the New Year. A private contractor would build and run the terminal, with the RAF being paid rent or a profit share. LADIES CHARITY GOLF DAY AT MUIRFIELD Even as one of Britain’s finest players and a former English amateur champion, Barbara McIntosh’s has never once been permitted to lace up her golf shoes in the Muirfield’s main changing room, which is strictly reserved for men. But as part of a charity golf day for Cancer Research UK, a total of 66 women from all over the world were given the freedom to roam through the red-roofed clubhouse which stands behind the 18th green of one of the world’s finest courses. The women were given courtesy of the course as part of a charity day which raised around £35,000 for research into breast cancer. The Honourable Company, founded in 1744, gives the course over to charities for one day each year, but never before have the golfers all been women. After a champagne breakfast in the clubhouse, the women, who paid £300 each to the charity, teed off on the course rated by many as the best in Britain. WINTER PASSPORT PROGRAMME FROM OLD COURSE HOTEL, ST ANDREWS, NOW AVAILABLE Their popular Winter Passport programme available between 1 December 2002 and 31 March 2003 is now available. From £279.00 per person for a two-night stay, this offer includes dinner on both evenings, a full scottish breakfast both mornings, and three rounds of golf on the famous St Andrews Links - a guaranteed tee time on the Old Course and a round on two other courses: the Jubilee, Eden or Strathtyrum. A three-night package is also available at £369.00 per person. The above package is based on two persons sharing and Eden room and is subject to availability. To make your reservation and for full terms and conditions please contact Resort Reservations on 01334 474371 or e-mail reservations@oldcoursehotel.co.uk GRANT GIVEN TO COWAL Argyll & the Islands Enterprise has awarded the Cowal Golf Club a machinery grant of £4200 to assist with purchase of course aeration machinery. A Prizegiving & Dance was held on Saturday 28th September 2002 The club is still looking for old photographs of Cowal Golf Club for display in their clubhouse. SCOTTISH GOLF COURSES FEATURE IN 50 AMAZING VIEWS Royal Troon, Gleneagles, and St Andrews, all feature in 'Golf Courses: 50 Amazing Views' which combines Getmapping’s high-quality aerial photography with facts and figures on some of Britain’s best-known golf courses. Getmapping plc was established in 1998 specifically to produce the first ever complete, full-colour, digital, photographic map of the UK. The company claims that ‘The Millennium Map’ has revolutionised the market by making high-quality vertical aerial photography widely available to both the professional user and the general public. Getmapping can produce an individual print of any area within the United Kingdom. The image can be centred wherever you choose, printed at any size from A6 to 7.5 metres square and at any scale up to 1: 1,000. 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	SCOTTISH TOURISM WEEK
	Monday October 14, 2002

AIRPORT PLAN FOR SKYE £100m airport plan to attract visitors costing up to £100m could be built on Skye, enabling the island to attract hundreds of thousands of extra visitors a year. Highlands and Islands Enterprise has asked for a feasibility study to be conducted into the proposals. Sandy Cumming, the HIE chief executive, said he wants to see a network of local airports throughout the Highlands and Islands to boost transport and economic development generally. The location north of Portree, between Drumuie and Kensaleyre, has been suggested as suitable although the study might reveal other potential locations. They are also keen to have an airport that could handle passenger jets large enough to attract cut-price flight operators such as Ryanair. The Isle of Skye would undoubtedly attract a lot of visitors and could probably take in one million people a year if the fares were low. But you need a suitable airport, which would need to have a lot of facilities, and it could cost anything from £60m to £100m. The next step is to get the support of the Skye and Lochalsh area committee and to get the feasibility study started. It is hoped that the airport will serve the island for the next 50 years and that will help the island's economy develop. VISITOR FACILITIES AT CULLODEN TO IMPROVE WITH £1.5m FUNDING The Culloden battle site is to receive a £1.5m to improve visitor facilities and the historical accuracy of some of the information it presents. The current visitor centre, built in 1984, has limited display space for artefacts, while its audio-visual presentation is based on an old slide show. The centre is likely to be retained but greatly extended. Owner the National Trust of Scotland admits its centre fails to tell the story of the last pitched battle on British soil as accurately as it might. It has appealed for historians and archaeologists with new theories on the events of April 1746 to get in touch. The new information will be used to give tourists an updated version of the historic battle, which ended Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite rebellion. Alexander Bennett, trust manager, explained that any new discoveries concerning the battle would be taken into account to make the information displayed at the attraction as accurate as it could be. Bennett said the Trust accepts it will have to change markers on the moorland site which were meant to represent the position of the government troops. A survey using ground-penetrating radar found artefacts suggesting part of the government line was 80 metres further south than was previously thought. NEW AIR LINKS FROM NORTH SCOTLAND TO MANCHESTER The Scottish Executive is encouraging further growth in the aviation industry by launching new air links from Inverness and Dundee to Manchester. Eastern Airways will operate the three times a day weekday services from 4 November, offering fares from £94 - £130 each way. The flights are aimed primarily at people with onward connections from Manchester to Chicago, New York and Washington as well as European destinations such as Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Frankfurt. Flights will leave Dundee at 6:30am, 2:30pm and 5:55pm and take 70 minutes to get to Manchester, while the Inverness services leave at 6:20am, 11:45am and 4:20pm and take 95 minutes. Eastern, which operates from Manchester Airport's Terminal 3, already runs flights from Edinburgh to Norwich and Humberside and from Aberdeen to Humberside, Norwich, Teesside and Wick. Inverness presently has three-times-a-day flights to Gatwick, run by British Airways and a once-a-day service to Luton, operated by EasyJet. Jim Wallace, the deputy first minister, who was in the Highlands to discuss an Executive aviation consultation document, said passenger numbers have doubled over the last decade. WORLD'S FIRST STORYTELLING COMPLEX FOR EDINBURGH An ambitious £3.2 million project to turn an Edinburgh arts centre into the world’s first purpose-built storytelling complex, complete with a retractable theatre, will get underway next year. Scotland has had a tradition of telling stories passed down through generations, but the artistic medium is also currently undergoing a worldwide revival. Scotland is at the forefront of this revival not just through its heritage, but also with storytelling in contemporary settings which address, for example, urban and environmental concerns. The Netherbow Centre, which is located next to John Knox’s house on the Royal Mile, will close for two years at the end of next year’s Edinburgh Festival when it will undergo a radical transformation at the hands of Malcolm Fraser Architects, which was behind the award-winning Dance Base building in the Grassmarket. The theatre will be expanded from a 75-seater to accommodate audiences of up to 100, and the stage will be retractable to create a space for workshops. According to Donald Smith, the director of the Netherbow Centre, the plans will put Scotland at the forefront of a worldwide revival of storytelling as well as providing tourists and families with the chance to enjoy a part of the country’s cultural heritage. It be of tremendous value to tourists visiting the Royal Mile who will be able to participate in gentle local culture. The Netherbow Port is named after Edinburgh’s principal gateway and became established as a leading cultural venue with the creation of the Scottish Storytelling Centre in 1995. Regular activities programmed through the centre include the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, training workshops, local storytelling clubs for children and adults, and storyteller visits to schools, libraries, conferences and arts venues. Tradition tells that John Knox lived in the house in the Netherbow during the months before his death in November, 1572. Although he was aged almost 60 and extremely ill, he continued to preach at St Giles’s Cathedral. GILMERTON COVE TO BECOME A TOURIST ATTRACTION Gilmerton Cove has remained one of Edinburgh’s most puzzling curiosities - but now the city council is spending £50,000 on transforming it into a tourist attraction. The cove, which is effectively a series of passages and chambers ten feet below a Ladbrokes betting shop in a suburb of Edinburgh, is best-known as the home of George Paterson, a blacksmith who lived and worked there from 1724 until 1735. However, many historians believe it has a far darker past. It is thought that the cove may have been used as an underground drinking club or secret meeting venue and place of safety for persecuted Covenanters who rejected the changes Charles II tried to impose on the Scottish Church in the 17th century and who often had to worship in secret. Others believe it could have been used by witches practising black magic or other religious rituals or even a smugglers lair. The site adjoins the old Roman road from Edinburgh to the Borders and would have been accessible by coaches as well as on foot and there are also rumours of a tunnel, linking it to Craigmillar Castle. Recent finds include a well, a number of stone benches, pits and gullies about two metres underground and tool marks from the 18th century. Visitors will descend into the cove by what are believed to be the original steps. Once inside, they will be able to see recovered artefacts and explore the 40ft underground warren of tunnels and adjoining rooms. Construction work will begin on the site next month and it should be fully open to the public by next spring. FALKIRK WHEEL RE-OPENS The Falkirk Wheel has re-opened after a two-week closure for £350,000 of repairs. The cost, which is more than three times original estimates, yesterday prompted the Scottish Executive to increase funding to help cover the expense. British Waterways (BW) said the world’s only revolving boat lift, which connects the Union, and Forth and Clyde canals, would have to close again for a month in February for further checks. Damage to the £17 million structure, which replaced a series of locks, included waterlogged electrical wiring, which has had to be replaced. The extra funding is £1 million more than expected, and almost twice as much as last year. It amounts to a 40 per cent increase in BW’s £7.1 million Scottish budget this year. The cash boost came as the first blueprint for the development of Scotland’s canals was published. The canals were previously controlled from south of the Border. The increased funding, and further extra money expected next year, would enable a backlog of more than £15 million of urgent repairs to the canal network to be cleared by 2004. These include lock and embankment repairs on the Caledonian Canal, and bank repairs on the Crinan Canal. The re-opening of the Union and Forth and Clyde canals, reconnecting Edinburgh and Glasgow by water, has led to a major increase in visitors. BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL ON ROYAL MILE The Beltane Fire Festival will go ahead with their annual Hallowe’en celebration on the Royal Mile on October 31. Hundreds of performers are expected to take part in the colourful procession from the Castle Esplanade to the High Street for the celebration of Samhuinn - the origin of modern-day festivities. Street theatre, fire performance, giant puppets and live music are expected to feature in the parade and subsequent performance at Parliament Square. The event is free of charge but the Beltane Fire Society, which organises the annual event and its better-known summer celebration on Calton Hill, is asking spectators to make donations on the night to help cover costs. An after-show party and benefit club will be held at Ego, in Picardy Place. 1.6m GRANT FOR BALLACH COUNTRY PARK Balloch Country Park - Scotland’s first - has become overgrown, with its famous vistas obscured by rhododendron bushes and trees. The walled garden and the famous rose garden have fallen into disrepair. Now the historic site is to be returned to its former Edwardian glory following a £1.6m grant to be announced tomorrow by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Eroded paths will be restored, spectacular viewpoints reinstated and the original design of the ornamental gardens that once charmed Glaswegians brought back to life. The park may be connected by footbridge to the nearby £200m Loch Lomond Shores tourism development which opened earlier this year. The castle, which is currently being used as offices by the new Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Authority, will get a visitor centre, while the tearoom will be refurbished and five children’s play areas will be added. It is hoped the redevelopment will double the number of visitors who use the park to 100,000. SCOTLAND UNITED 2002 2 December 2002 Scotland United 2002 is the national tourism and hospitality conference that has been created by the industry for the industry, the Scottish Tourism Forum and British Hospitality Association, working jointly with VisitScotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scottish Enterprise. In 2001 Scotland United focused on the vision for the future. For 2002 Scotland United will look at ‘Playing to Scotland’s Strengths’. It will address new tourism products linked to Scotland’s market strengths; getting the most out of your team and looking at what other businesses do which can improve performance and profits. Mike Watson MSP, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, will be in attendance. The event will not just be a listening experience. Delegates will have the opportunity to actively participate in interactive sessions designed to both benefit their business and the whole Scottish tourism and hospitality industry. The 24hr delegate rate to attend Scotland United 2002 is £165 plus VAT. In addition to attendance at all conference sessions on Monday 2 December, this conference package also includes attendance at the drinks reception; dinner, sponsored by the BHA; and overnight accommodation, B&B, at Crieff Hydro Hotel on Sunday 1 December. A day delegate rate is also available at £95 plus VAT; this rate is for attendance at all conference sessions on Monday 2 December only. To register to attend Scotland United 2002 or for more information call: 0845 6023 439 or e-mail: scotlandunited@starkeventsuk.com. NATURE BASED TOURISM CONFERENCE 24th October 2002 - Peebles A half-day conference to discuss the opportunities for nature-based tourism, in particular the South of Scotland. South of Scotland Nature-based Tourism Project, ‘Making Tracks’ is a newly established nature-based sustainable tourism project for the south of Scotland. ‘Nature-based tourism’ involves tourism which is located in and based upon an enjoyment of the natural heritage. It encompasses a wide range of tourism, from specialist nature study tours to more general guided trips on foot, bike, boat or car or visits to natural attractions. ‘Making Tracks’ aims to encourage groups of farmers and land-based businesses to work with mainstream tourism businesses and attractions to develop a network of sustainable nature-based tourism products (ie. specific visitor attractions or other businesses providing nature-based tourism facilities and services) across the region.	MAIL TO THE EDITOR

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	THIS WEEK'S NEWS AIRPORT PLAN FOR SKYE VISITOR FACILITIES AT CULLODEN TO IMPROVE WITH �1.5m FUNDING NEW AIR LINKS FROM NORTH SCOTLAND TO MANCHESTER WORLD'S FIRST STORYTELLING COMPLEX FOR EDINBURGH GILMERTON COVE TO BECOME A TOURIST ATTRACTION FALKIRK WHEEL RE-OPENS BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL ON ROYAL MILE 1.6m GRANT FOR BALLACH COUNTRY PARK SCOTLAND UNITED 2002 NATURE BASED TOURISM CONFERENCE


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