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The UK Government has put in place the largest network of diagnostic testing facilities created in British history, setting up a state of the art network of virus testing facilities across Scotland.
Arran’s Food Journey aims to collate and tell Arran’s food story to encourage more sustainable food tourism, improving collaboration between food businesses, increasing sustainability and encouraging consumers to champion local products.
While most businesses acknowledge the need to curtail the virus, many have expressed concern about future survival, staff retention and financial viability for an already beleaguered industry.
Thousands of tourism businesses in Scotland are ineligible for grants and could go to the wall ‘in weeks,’ says STA.
Michael Matheson MSP has added his signature today to a letter from the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments warning that some routes could sink unless there is intervention.
The Arran Skills group worked in partnership with North Ayrshire Council, Business Gateway and Argyll College to help identify the training requirements for businesses, particularly effective digital marketing strategies and the use of social media, and Business Gateway delivered the training.
The Arran Economic Group have their sights set on the challenges and opportunities leading up to and including the new decade and will be discussing these topics at a public meeting next week.
The weather could not have been kinder to Shop Arran this year with a weekend of dry, bright – if a little chilly – bringing out Christmas shoppers in their droves.
The financial backing has allowed the Lagg Distillery with its visitor centre, restaurant and café, to double the company’s production capacity to over two million litres per annum and will see the development of further new warehousing facilities on the site of the new Lagg Distillery.
CalMac’s service updates team has been crowned team of the year by the Contact Centre Association (CCA) for the quality of their customer care.
