New tourism campaign encourages visitors to stay for longer in the North Highlands
The North Highland Initiative has unveiled a new tourism campaign for 2020, aiming to encourage visitors to spend more time exploring the region. Officially launched last...
Glasgow Crowned as the UK’s Top Cultural and Creative City
Glasgow has been named the UK’s top cultural and creative city as part of a landmark report by the European Commission. The report puts Glasgow ahead...
STA Activity – November
After a busy period in October around the STA Annual Autumn Conference and launch of the draft future tourism strategy, we had a relatively quiet...
Video: The importance of lifelong learning
It was very clear from the STA conference, and the new draft strategy revealed at the event, that one of the biggest barriers to the...
Food Tourism Update – November
Food tourism seem to be the words on everyone’s lips at the moment! FoodTrex, the Food Travel Innovation Summit (and ‘TedX of food tourism’) took place...
Migration vital to Scotland’s future workforce
Experts highlight risk of acute labour shortages without immigration. Immigration schemes can be an ‘immediate and direct’ way to tackle depopulation, an independent expert group has...
Book your ticket to attend Scotland’s Cruise Conference 2019
The Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA) is working with CruiseForth to host Scotland’s Cruise Conference on the 20th November 2019 in Aberdeen. The event which will take place at...
Reveal of draft future tourism strategy
The draft of Scotland’s future tourism strategy was shared with industry delegates at the Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA) Annual Autumn Conference in Edinburgh in October. This...