Moray Tourism Destination Development.

Saturday 24 April – Sunday 22 August, 2010

For the first time in Scotland, three major British collections are loaning precious drawings, seen only once in a generation, to MORAY ART CENTRE. Renaissance drawings from the British Museum’s collection will be augmented by additional drawings from The Courtauld Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland.

The exhibition is timed to open concurrently with related exhibitions of the same period, with The British Museum, London and The Uffizi, Florence and the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition ‘Michelangelo’s Dream’. However, MORAY ART CENTRE’s exhibition is based upon a provocative and a timely new premise which the Courtauld Gallery’s Director, Ernst Vegelin, has called, “compelling”.

Grampian Food Forum is running a series of workshops, which starts in April and will run through to January 2011.
This comprehensive business development programme will provide food and drink businesses with the necessary competence skills and knowledge to achieve their growth ambitions through innovation, adding value, new market development and quality improvements.

The programme is open to food and drink companies based in Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City and Moray and will include presentations by guest speakers who will share experiences and best practice, awareness visits and a key focus throughout the programme will be on innovation. The workshops will be designed to provide practical working sessions with the participants.

The programme is particularly suited to recently established food or drink companies or companies with less than 25 employees.

Each half-day workshop takes place on a Wednesday between 12pm and 5pm. The cost per delegate for the total programme is £200.

Anyone wishing to participate in the programme should complete the booking form, which can be found on the link below or contact the Grampian Food Forum Co-ordinator on 01224 664334 or grampianfoodforum@aberdeenshire.gov.uk.

Booking form

Great news for Kinloss Golf course and Moray Tourism today as the Moray Council have approved the upgrade of the facilities at Kinloss to incorporate Holiday Chalets, Tennis Court and Club House Development that includes indoor training facilities/Golf Simulator.

With this new development Kinloss Golf Course will create an all year round attraction for golfers and their families.

Tommy Dingwall, owner of the golf complex says; The hard work now begins to ensure that this unique all weather facility can move forward for the benefit of our Club Members and Visitors to Moray.

We wish Tommy and Karen all the success with their new plans at the Kinloss Golf Course which fits the ambition of the Moray Tourism Development Group to establish Moray as an all year, all round destination.

Press release

Two video’s of the Moray Tourism Conference have been uploaded to YouTube.

Short Moray video (3 min)

Longer Moray Video (10 min)

Thanks to HIE Moray who funded the sound and video during the day. Podcasts of every speaker to follow…

News from the Tourism Innovation Group:

Intelligence and Innovation….

Good market intelligence is key for every successful organisation who wants to stay ahead. But what are the appropriate global and local trends that you should react to? How do you hit the sweet-spot where innovation meets the visitor needs?

Now in its 8th year, Tourism Innovation Day has established itself as the leading innovation event for the Scottish tourism sector. TID provides insight on trends, intelligence, innovation and the visitor experience, drawing on how the best in Scotland are meeting the business challenge of growth.

Book now for this exciting and inspirational event that brings you a great range of outstanding speakers: specialists on trends and insights, successful entrepreneurs who are happy to share their stories, tricks and tips. Ask how they overcame the same difficulties that you face. Hear from a great speaker on innovation, with new techniques for developing front-end products and services. Additionally, there will be great networking opportunities throughout the packed and varied day. More info: http://www.tourisminnovationday.com/

When: Thursday 20th May 2010, 10am – 4.15pm
Where: John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh AND Green House, Inverness.

Posted on behalf of Grampian Food Forum

Grampian Food Forum is looking to recruit 20 companies to participate the
Innovation and Business Growth Programme.

The programme will run from 21 April 2010 to 12 January 2011 and is a
series half-day workshops, which is open to food and drink companies based
in Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City and Moray.

This comprehensive business development programme will provide food and
drink businesses with the necessary competence skills and knowledge to
achieve their growth ambitions through innovation, adding value, new market
development and quality improvements. It will include presentations by
guest speakers who will share their experiences, awareness visits and
practical sessions built into each workshop.

Each half-day workshop takes place on a Wednesday between 12pm and 5pm and
the cost per delegate is £200.

Further information can be found on this link along the booking form, which
should be completed by 5 April 2010.

News from Moray Chamber of Commerce

Chef Culinaire (CC) is our club for chefs, restaurateurs and food producers lead by Chef George McIvor of The Full Range Limited. An invitation has been extended to this group to visit the Fochabers site of Baxters Food Group. It is the ethos of Executive Chairman Audrey Baxter to use the best recipes and finest ingredients that can be found. In 1868, her great grandfather started out with the mission, “Be Different, Be Better”. Since then the family have endeavoured to do just that. Now CC can experience the magic of Baxters and find out more about their delicious business! First stop will be the Experimental Kitchen followed by a tasting of new products from the Baxters portfolio. The group will meet in the Gordon Room at 10.30am.

DATE:
Monday 12th April

VENUE:
Baxters Visitor Centre, Fochabers

TIME:
10.30am for Chef Culinaire group £20 MEMBERS
12.30 pm for Business Lunch £25 NON MEMBERS

To register your interest please contact Lesley Ann Parker at the Moray Chamber of Commerce

Please see below a link to the first newsletter of the Moray Tourism Executive office.

http://bit.ly/Moray_newsletter

If you haven’t received it by email make sure you sign up for the newsletter at the top right hand side of this blog post.

Info from Moray Council:

Are you looking for funding?

Once again we are delighted to invite organisations and individuals to this exciting event, now in its 10th year, that will provide an excellent opportunity to consult with the experts about your project proposals through presentations and workshops from the BIG lottery, SportScotland, European Structural Funds, HLF, The Robertson Trust and more.

The event is free of charge, refreshments and light buffet will be made available. For further information on this event call 01343 563347/ 563283/ 563493 to secure your place.

Thursday 1 April 2010 at Elgin Town Hall, 10AM – 2.45PM

From MorayFirthLive

OVER a hundred tourism business leaders packed the Robbie Dhu Centre at Glenfiddich Distillery yesterday to take part in a major workshop to shape the future of tourism development in Moray.

The Moray Tourism Development Group was relaunched with Andrew Martin as chairman. Andrew is a director at the Scottish Tourism Centre of Robert Gordon University and will lead the group as it works to provide support for tourism businesses in Moray.

Photo’s: Marc Hindley, MorayFirthLive