Tag: VisitScotland

Next year 2020 will be awash with events to entertain you. It will be the Year of Coasts and Waters and it was launched today at the VisitScotland Expo.Clydebuilt Festival will be bigger...

The Real Mary King's Close celebrated a momentous win, taking home the title of Best Heritage Tourism Experience in Scotland at the VisitScotland 2019 Thistle Awards last night.The five-star historic visitor attraction was honoured...

Last night at a glittering event in the Edinburgh International Conference Centre hundreds of people involved in tourism businesses all over Scotland gathered.VisitScotland organise the tourist trade's awards ceremony to celebrate the best...

The Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions (ASVA) has announced that visits to its member sites rose slightly in 2018, the fifth year running that an increase in numbers has been recorded. ASVA, which represents the...

 The Bay Hotel at Kinghorn is celebrating being awarded a prestigious Taste Our Best Award for the quality of its food served in the Horizons restaurant, and throughout the business. Taste Our Best is Visit...

VisitScotland awarded Scottish Thistle Awards to many tourism businesses in the Edinburgh area.This is the foremost tourism awards in the country recognising success, innovation, excellence and best practice.As well as businesses people are also...

Edinburgh’s award-winning storytellers Mercat Tours were awarded an exceptional 91% Quality Assurance 5* Tour award from VisitScotland for the 11th year running.The family business revealed the news as they celebrated their 33rd birthday with free tours of...

Edinburgh's Barony House has received a five-star Guest House Quality Assurance award from the national tourism organisation in recognition of its exceptional standards.The Newington-based B&B previously held a Four-Star Gold status and Barony House...

Euan's Guide, a charity website used by disabled people to review, share and discover accessible places to visit, has launched an accessibility guide to Fife.The guide to one of Scotland's most popular regions features...

A film about an octogenarian tackling one of Scotland’s most iconic mountains hopes to inspire visitors to pull on their hiking boots, say VisitScotland,Edie, stars English actress Sheila Hancock as an 83-year-old widow who...

The Chair of VisitScotland  brought his red Dress Sinclair kilt with him to New York.  As a Highlander John Thurso has a few to choose from, but this is 'one of his favourite kilts'.He...

Arthur Conan Doyle, Flora MacDonald and William Wallace were given a new look by fashion students at Edinburgh College along with Edinburgh-based Stewart Christie & Co from Queen Street.Photographer Laura Meek captured the characters...

A leading tourism official has welcomed a new accolade for Scotland's capital.It was named as a runner-up in Britain's favourite city in an award scheme run by LandLove Magazine.Malcolm Roughead, VisitScotland chief executive, said:...

One of Scotland’s leading wildlife centres has swooped to land tourism’s highest accolade.The Scottish Seabird Centre, twice winner of BBC Countryfile’s Nature Reserve of the Year, has once again received a five-star grading from...

VisitScotland has appointed VIPS (VisitScotland Information Partners) who will assist them in spreading tourist information across the country. One of those is Europe’s largest independently owned, family-run car company, Arnold Clark which will be handing...

VisitScotland has begun a new social media campaign today. It includes parkour athletes in Edinburgh and a scallop diver in Mull, bringing Scotland to the notice of those who might then be attracted to come...

VisitScotland has announced the closure of some of its tourism information outlets such as the one at Edinburgh Airport, but it is taking a new approach to ways to keep in touch with visitors. Instead...

If you have access requirements then you are much less likely to go to new places. VisitScotland and VisitEngland are teaming up to put a stop to that, while helping businesses get into Accessible...

Although VisitScotland have decided to concentrate their efforts on online activity rather than visitor centres, they will keep the Edinburgh Princes Street travel hub open.The high profile centre placed right in the city centre...

Edinburgh is well represented on the shortlist announced today for the Scottish Thistle Awards.These tourism awards recognise excellence and best practice in the hospitality and tourism industry, and this year is special as it...

The Borders Railway shows no sign of losing momentum as it continues to capture the world’s attention.VisitScotland’s international marketing campaign to promote the rail link has reached almost 35 million people in the last...

VisitScotland Chief Executive, Malcolm Roughead, claims Scotland continues to be a must-visit destination in the global tourism market.He was responding to the release of the International Passenger Survey (IPS) tourism statistics by the UK...

Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle are hitting the road as some of Scotland’s top MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) venues go on tour in the Midlands.Organised by VisitScotland Business Events, Scotland on Tour...

They are events steeped in history that uphold traditions dating back centuries and combine the unforgettable spectacle of horses and their riders with local celebrations and pageantry.And now, VisitScotland is encouraging visitors to travel...

A new online film, aimed at promoting Midlothian to visitors across the globe, has been launched by the national tourism organisation in partnership with Midlothian Council and Midlothian Tourism Forum.Produced by VisitScotland, in collaboration...

  Tourism businesses in Edinburgh and the Lothians are preparing for a busy tourism season and VisitScotland’s Regional Director, Manuela Calchini, looks ahead to a number of exciting new events as well as the celebration...

The Scottish Government has announced that Scotland’s latest Innovation and Investment Hub has officially opened in London.More than 450 businesses have registered their interest in becoming members in the first few weeks.The office is...

It has long been a debate in clubhouses throughout the country but now VisitScotland has launched an online poll to find the nation’s most beloved golf holes from almost 600 courses across the country.The...

Experience Scotland from your armchairPeople across the world can now instantly walk through the prehistoric village of Skara Brae in Orkney, soar high over Edinburgh Castle like a bird, journey into the depths of...

A new VisitScotland interactive adventure experience is putting visitors in a spin – by giving them a 360 degree view of some of Scotland’s best viewpoints including our very Arthur's Seat.State of the art...