Tourism news archive
Tourism news and events archive from March 2007
| Add your event to the Highland 2007 September-December programme Event organisers are being encouraged to make the most of Highland 2007, Scotland’s year of Highland culture, by adding their events to the programme for the year ahead. | |
| Winners announced in first Outer Hebrides excellence awards Following the success of the Who Cares Wins programme across the Outer Hebrides, a glittering awards ceremony and gala dinner was held tonight (Thursday, March 22) in Stornoway to celebrate excellence in service throughout the area. | |
| Island chef show skills to international audience A velvet crab bisque with haddock and cod all the way from Orkney will be tempting worldwide palates this week when chef Alan Craigie takes to the kitchen at the International Food Exhibition in London. | |
| Path is cleared through food safety confusion A brand new easy-to-access system for small and medium sized food manufacturers to introduce a food safety quality assurance scheme will be launched on Monday (March 19) at the International Food Exhibition in London. | |
| On location - the Celtic Media Festival An event that will put the Highlands and Islands in the spotlight again as a filming location takes place later this month on Skye. | |
| Food and drink strategy briefing planned David Kilshaw, chair of Scottish Food & Drink (SFD), will be outlining the new SFD strategy when he addresses the Highlands and Islands Food Forum next week. | |
| Tourism and technology winners inspired by US visit The leaders of three award-winning projects promoting the use of technology in tourism and heritage have returned to Scotland inspired and ready for the task ahead from a visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). | |
| Scottish Tourism Week gets underway A week long series of events to mark Scottish Tourism Week gets underway today (Monday). | |
| Tourism training workshops for small businesses Training courses in a wide range of tourism-related subjects, including bartending, housekeeping management, starting a bed and breakfast and customer service, are being offered by HIE Inverness and East Highland (IEH), as part of a programme to help develop and improve the quality of local tourism businesses. | |
| Advanced business search site launched A new local business search site aimed at the small to medium-sized enterprise market has just launched. | |
| Highland 2007 announces funding for InvernessFest fringe events One of the most anticipated events in the Highland 2007 calendar is InvernessFest, a two week long celebration of traditional and contemporary culture in Inverness taking place between 15 and 29 July. | |