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A Guide to Using Picasa
This is the first post in a new series of "A Guide To.." highlighting better practice or at worst opinions on how you might improve your profile online.We hope that you find them useful and of course if you do you can always let your fellow businesses k...
Good Use of Blog by Dornoch Hotelier
Grant Sword who's currently looking after the marketing and management of the recently re-opened Royal Golf Hotel in Dornoch has takane advantage of the press furore about Alex Salmond's remark about choosing to go to Dornoch so he could play golf!His rec...
Scottish Highlands Year of Food and Drink Support
New funding for a series of events in the Highlands to mark the year-long celebration of Scotland's iconic produce has been announced.As part of the national drive to promote Scotland as a land of food and drink, additional funding of £25,000 has been aw...
TM Briefing - Using Google Alerts
One of the least used tools in our experience by the hospitality sector is Google Alerts and in all honesty it should be up there as one of yur online marketing priorities.If you search the internet you'll find loads about reputation management - roughly...
Scottish Enterprise - Value for Money?
In the light of all of the figures being pushed about about budget cuts and job losses across the public sector it would seem logical that tourism and hospitality will feel the pain in terms of budget reductions and staffing cuts. However there are argume...
Tourism Matters News Archive
27-07-2010More O'Leary Duplicity
You've got to give him credit for continually getting away with it...
Following on from the winter schedule cuts, Michael O’Leary said:
“Sadly UK traffic and tourism continues to collapse while Rxxxair continues to grow rapidly in those countries which welcome tourists instead of taxing them.
“Rxxxair’s 16% UK capacity cutback, 17% cut at Stansted, shows just how much the UK’s tourist tax and the BAA’s high airport charges are damaging UK tourism and the British economy generally.
“Today’s cutbacks underline the urgent need to break-up the high cost BAA Airport monopoly, as recommended by the Competition Commission, and scrap the damaging £11 tourist tax which has caused UK traffic to collapse over the past two years.”
It's a shame for independently owned (and Rxxxair shafted) Prestwick Airport that this PR rhetoric doesn't prevent the transfer of the key routes from Prestwick to BAA owned Edinburgh Airport.
Ah such unfettered power....
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