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Collecting customer data

Date of article: Wed 26 Aug 20

Regulations make it mandatory to collect customer and visitor information It's now mandatory for hospitality settings to collect the contact details of visitors to their premises ...

Hotel Support Programme

Date of article: Wed 26 Aug 20

Today, (26 August), a new Hotel Support Programme has been launched to help protect sustainable employment in the medium term within larger hotels in Scotland. This new programme ...

Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund bid - community and business consultation

Date of article: Wed 26 Aug 20

Fife Coast and Countryside Trust are applying for a grant to improve rural infrastructure in some of the areas worst affected by visitor pressure. To strengthen the case for the bi ...

ONFife’s response to Scottish Government theatres reopening with restrictions announcment

Date of article: Tue 25 Aug 20

ONFife response to theatres opening with restrictions from September 14, Michelle Sweeney, Director of Creative Development, said: “Yesterday the Scottish Government announced, ...

More Historic Environment Scotland Sites to Open

Date of article: Mon 24 Aug 20

At 12pm today, Monday 24 August, visitors can book tickets to visit the following Historic Scotland sites:   ·         Dunblane Cathedral (reopens on Wednesday 2 Septe ...

Events Industry Support Fund announced

Date of article: Mon 24 Aug 20

Today (Monday 24 August) the details of a £6 million fund to help the events sector recover from the COVID-19 pandemic has been announced. The Events Industry Support Fund wil ...

Hamish McHamish – The St Andrews Cat Children’s Books Launched

Date of article: Mon 24 Aug 20

US based Scottish author and artist publishes famous cat adventure book series to support St Andrews charity Hamish McHamish goes truly global on Amazon sales platform Future S ...

Energy Efficiency Business Support Service

Date of article: Mon 24 Aug 20

What does this involve? Zero Waste Scotland's team of advisers and technical specialists will help you implement meaningful changes and achieve significant savings. Their expert a ...

WorldHost 2020 - Keeping customers safe (COVID-19)

Date of article: Mon 24 Aug 20

Empower your staff to keep customers and colleagues safe beyond Covid-19 & drive positive behaviours in a rapidly changing customer facing environment. Covid-19 customer serv ...

First Minister announces changes to Phase 3 lockdown restrictions

Date of article: Fri 21 Aug 20

Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that we will not move from Phase 3 to Phase 4 but announced a number of changes to the Phase 3 lockdown restrictions.  Spe ...

Small Business COVID Safety Grant

Date of article: Thu 20 Aug 20

If you run a small business in one of Fife’s Town Centres…..you can apply for a £100 grant to help with the cost of Covid-19 public health measures.   Where?   Applicati ...

Tourism receives hi-tech boost to help smooth road to recovery

Date of article: Tue 18 Aug 20

A new organisation launches today (Tuesday, 18 August 2020) to help Scotland’s beleaguered tourism sector make a sustained recovery driven by technological innovation   It wil ...

Marketing Intel

Date of article: Tue 18 Aug 20

Research is showing travelling by car / private vehicle is the preferred mode of travel due to ease of physical distancing and ability to make or change plans spontaneously. OTA in ...

The Scottish Fisheries Museum Welcomes Back Visitors

Date of article: Tue 18 Aug 20

“Our Staff are back in the museum getting things ready and safe for you to visit.” The Scottish Fisheries Museum will reopen on the 26th of August. The story we tell of the S ...

Our responsible tourism future

Date of article: Mon 17 Aug 20

From VisitScotland.org As we seek to rebuild tourism and look toward the future of the industry, it's important we put the welfare of communities and our natural environment at t ...

Your Opportunity to be part of this year’s Virtual Taste of Grampian

Date of article: Fri 14 Aug 20

The 4 Local Authorities along the banks of the River Tay (Fife, Dundee, Angus and Perth & Kinross) are working together to offer an opportunity for your business to be showca ...

Wedding venue couple turn their events skills to the movies

Date of article: Fri 14 Aug 20

In a first for Fife, a Drive-In Cinema is opening on Friday 28th August for a weekend of popular movies and great in-car catering in the stunning location of Pratis Barns, near Lev ...

Coronavirus (COVID-19): tourism and hospitality sector guidance

Date of article: Fri 14 Aug 20

Guidance for the tourism and hospitality sector, including procedures for staff and customer safety and an operations checklist. Updated 14 Aug 2020 - Added statutory guidance for ...

Further Hospitality Rules Introduced

Date of article: Mon 10 Aug 20

Settings where face coverings must be legally worn in Scotland is expanding to include certain indoor public places such as cinemas, galleries, museums and banks, from Saturday 8 A ...

TAYPORT DISTILLERY WINS GOLD OUTSTANDING AT THE INTERNATIONAL WINE AND SPIRITS COMPETITION AWARDS

Date of article: Fri 7 Aug 20

Tayport Distillery are delighted to announce that they have won two Gold Medals at the International Wine and Spirits Competition! The IWSC is one of the most coveted competitions ...

Regional Only in Scotland films

Date of article: Fri 7 Aug 20

This week, VisitScotland launched the first in their series of new regional films encouraging people living in Scotland to explore Scotland's regions. These films follow on the hee ...

Update Your Listing on WelcometoFife.com

Date of article: Fri 7 Aug 20

Please remember to update any business listings you have on our consumer site, WelcometoFife.com. In the month of July, we have had over 112,000 page views which is up almost 70% ...

Latest STERG meeting

Date of article: Thu 6 Aug 20

The latest STERG meeting was held this morning. The following areas were discussed: Industry issues – Response to new restrictions in Aberdeen and ongoing observations followi ...

iCentre Reopening Plans

Date of article: Thu 6 Aug 20

Via https://www.visitscotland.org/news/2020/icentre-reopening-plans As tourism continues to reopen across the country, here's an update on plans for reopening our iCentre network ...

Eat Out to Help Out Survey

Date of article: Tue 4 Aug 20

The 'Eat Out to Help Out' scheme is now underway, supporting the hospitality industry by encouraging diners to eat out with a 50% discount during the month of August. Scottish Tou ...

On Fife The Advantage

Date of article: Mon 3 Aug 20

ONFife brings together some of Fife’s best-loved food and drink to celebrate summer outdoors with a new twice-weekly summer café and bar venture, The Advantage, at the Adam Smit ...

Updating Your VisitScotland Listing

Date of article: Mon 3 Aug 20

Step by step guidance on how to update your VisitScotland.com web listing Scotland is working its way through the route map to welcome visitors once again. And visitors are keen t ...

New £750k fund to support communities’ green recovery

Date of article: Mon 3 Aug 20

A new fund designed to support local regeneration and sustainable development around Scotland’s coast has today been launched by Crown Estate Scotland. The Sustainable Communiti ...

Update Your Listing on WelcometoFife.com

Date of article: Fri 31 Jul 20

Please remember to update any business listings you have on our consumer site, WelcometoFife.com. In the month of July, we have had over 112,000 page views which is up almost 70% ...

Eat Out to Help Out

Date of article: Fri 31 Jul 20

The Eat Out to Help Out Scheme offers a 50% discount, up to a maximum of £10 per person, to diners for food or non-alcoholic drinks. The scheme is available all day, every Monda ...

OnFife's Museums and Galleries take first step back to re-opening

Date of article: Fri 31 Jul 20

ONFife is delighted to announce that its ‘big three’ museums and galleries will be re-opening over the next few weeks. St Andrews Museum will be welcoming back visitors from t ...

Further funding for tourism

Date of article: Wed 29 Jul 20

Two new funding packages worth £15 million will support the tourism sector as it continues to feel the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. A £14 million Hotel Recove ...

Fife augmented reality app hits record downloads

Date of article: Wed 29 Jul 20

The award-winning Fife app 'In the Footsteps of Kings', developed by Fife Tourism Partnership, has hit over 2000 downloads since it's launch last summer. The app brings history to ...

Fife - We're Good To Go

Date of article: Tue 28 Jul 20

VisitScotland have launched a regional "We're Good to Go" campaign through Facebook events. These have been created on their consumer Facebook page, and they're encouraging busi ...

Coronavirus Scottish Tourism Recovery Taskforce

Date of article: Mon 27 Jul 20

The Scottish Tourism Recovery Taskforce (STRT), led by the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Tourism and the Minister for Business, Fair Work and Skills is responsible for s ...

DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP RESCHEDULED FOR 2021

Date of article: Mon 27 Jul 20

20th ANNIVERSARY ALFRED DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP RESCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 30 – OCTOBER 3, 2021     The 2020 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship will not take place this au ...

Are you Good to Go yet?!

Date of article: Wed 22 Jul 20

In order to give confidence to your visitors, VisitScotland have worked with VisitEngland, Visit Wales and Tourism Northern Ireland to create a UK-wide industry standard and consum ...

#loveFifeagain

Date of article: Wed 22 Jul 20

As tourism businesses start to reopen, we can once again promote our beautiful region and ask people to #loveFifeagain. On Thursday 16th July we launched our recovery video 'Love ...

Zero Waste Scotland launches campaign to protect Scotland’s natural assets

Date of article: Wed 22 Jul 20

With Scotland opening its doors to the tourist season, Zero Waste Scotland has launched a new campaign highlighting the country’s natural beauty and wildlife and urging visitors ...

Content Sharing During COVID-19

Date of article: Tue 21 Jul 20

Via visitscotland.org In light of COVID-19, the most important thing was (and still is) everyone's health and safety. We always want to be able to share our beautiful country wit ...