Argyll’s Airds Hotel at Port Appin, opposite the Isle of Lismore, has received a Gold EatScotland Award. This recognises it as one of the best places to eat in Scotland, putting it in the same frame as Edinburgh’s Restaurant mMartin Wishart…
From November onwards, Argyll and Bute Council buildings in Campbeltown, Lochgilphead, Crossapol, Bowmore, Tobermory, Dunoon and Rothesay will provide a secure video link to a passport interviewer.
This is an imaginative and helpful initiative, given the sprawling territory of Argyll and the islands…
Argyll band, Skerryvore, from the Isle of Tiree, brought Scottish traditional music to a wide audience, playing at the VisitScotland networking event at the recent World Travel Market in London. The event was aimed at highlighting 2009 Year of Homecoming.
Tobermory seems destined for celebrity. It has just seen the dwindling of the long and massive tourist boost with the popularity of the BBC children’s TV series, Balamory based on the brightly coloured port on the Isle of Mull. Now…
VisitScotland has come up with an inspired initiative capitalising on yet another of Scotland’s envied natural resources - great swathes of the country with no light pollution. Remote and virtually empty territory means dark skies, the best and hard-to-find conditions…
[ November 19, 2008 to November 23, 2008. ]
| November 19, 2008 | to | November 23, 2008 |
The 2008 Inverness Film Festival is running at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness from 19th - 23rd November. A full Film Diary for the event is available.
There are two Gala Screenings - one on 19th November and…
A Ryanair flight from Frankfurt into Rome’s Ciampino airport had to make an emergency landing there after a serious bird strike. In landing it damaged its landing gear, leaving one engine resting on the ground. Passengers evacuated the plane via…
VisitScotland is paying £1.25 million to buy its website fully into public ownership. The website is currently a public / private partnership between VisitScotland and Tiscover, Partnerships UK and Atos Origin.
Tourism Minister Jim Mather, Argyll’s constituency MSP, says that this…
As reported earlier, Argyll’s Tayvallich community on Loch Sween entered into a commitment to raise the funds to buy the village shop, post office and coffee shop which had been put up for sale. A single business with these component…
A WEST Highland hotel which dates back to Victorian times has changed ownership for the
first time in more than thirty years.
The three star Highland Hotel, at Crianlarich, part of the Highland Heritage coach tour empire of leading north businessman Ian…
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