Whisky distiller wants to see attractions of Speyside promoted internationally
Filed in Moray Tourism on Jul.20, 2009
A multibillion-pound drinks company pledged last night to help Moray become internationally renowned as the home of malt whisky.
Diageo’s director of corporate relations, Ken Robertson, told the Press and Journal Speyside’s fame around the world was not generating the expected number of visitors.
He has been in talks with Moray MP Angus Robertson about promoting the attractions of Speyside globally.
A multibillion-pound drinks company pledged last night to help Moray become internationally renowned as the home of malt whisky. Diageo’s director of corporate relations, Ken Robertson, told the Press and Journal Speyside’s fame around the world was not generating the expected number of visitors. He has been in talks with Moray MP Angus Robertson about promoting the attractions of Speyside globally. More…
July 20th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Interesting article, nice to see the big guns are now aiming in the right direction.
Do you have Ken Robertsons email address I could contact him with Rene ?
We own SpeysideWhisky.com (and.TV), it constantly receives visitors from around the world and was previously ranked high in the top 10 results in Google/MSN/Yahoo for the search term speyside whisky (when we had it developed with just 3 pages of content).
visitors from:
United States 54.1 % < the perfect tourism target !
Great Britain 19.6 %
Germany 4.9 %
Sweden 3.9 %
Netherlands 2.7 %
Canada (en) 2.5 %
We did have amazing plans for it but soon found getting distilleries to contribute photos and product info was very very difficult…impossible to reach the right people !, my hosting space closed down so its not active anymore and the project has been put on hold for now.
Thanks
July 20th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Hi,
I don’t have Ken’s email address but I’ll see if I can get hold of it. Thanks!
PS Good to see the Netherlands in the top 5!
July 20th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Excellent, thanks Rene – Was that 2.7% you
July 20th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
oops, that last post did’nt sound like I meant it too, sorry
July 21st, 2009 at 9:20 am
lol, I thought it was funny.