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| New product &
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VisitScotland Expo
exhibitors are gearing up for a busy show in 2011 with plenty
of new product on offer. New Spanish tours at Real Mary King’s
Close, ‘green only’ sustainable and multilingual tours by Rob
Roy and new events at Drumlanrig Castle and Grampian Transport
Museum are just some examples of the exciting new products
created by Scottish tourism businesses. Visit the Expo website
to find out more about these and other new products.
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| Great offers for
international trade
Here
are just some of the offers Expo exhibitors have introduced
for the trade: The National Trust for Scotland has frozen its
trade prices until December 2012, Highland Safaris are
offering complimentary safari passes for trade bookings while
Jac Travel has expanded its Just Go programme to
Just Go Hotels. Visit the Expo website to find out more
about these and other exciting offers from Expo
exhibitors.
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| | £74m Riverside
Museum opens in Glasgow on
21st June 2011
Glasgow’s iconic new
landmark, the Riverside Museum designed by Zaha Hadid will be
a fitting home for the city’s world-class transport collection
and a place that will inspire, educate and entertain replacing
the existing Museum of Transport. This iconic wave-shaped
museum will sit in the harbour where the rivers Clyde and
Kelvin meet, a site which is steeped in history, both ancient
and industrial. Visit the Glasgow City Marketing Bureau stand
at C6 for further information.
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| | National Museum of
Scotland opens after £46m revamp in Edinburgh
The excitement is growing
as the transformed National Museum of Scotland re-opens on 29
July 2011. The refurbishment has turned the museum into one of
the UK’s largest museums as well as one of the finest
Victorian public buildings in the UK. New features include 16
new galleries, improved conference space, a learning centre
for schools and enhanced exhibition space that will host a
programme of blockbuster special exhibitions from spring 2012
onwards. Visitors will experience the world under one roof
through a range of treasures revealing the wonders of nature,
the diversity of cultures and the excitement of science.
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| |  | | Scottish National
Portrait Gallery to re-open in November 2011
When the doors of the
National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh re-open in November the
new gallery is set to dazzle with new exhibition spaces and a
much larger amount of its collections on display than in 2009
when it closed for a complete refurbishment. The revamp will
restore and reveal much more of the architecturally attractive
building than ever before, to show many more works of art and
introduce a new, regularly changing display programme and
create first-class education and visitor services.
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| |  | | Hunterian Museum
reopens in September 2011
Visitors to the renovated
Hunterian Museum in Glasgow will witness the excellent works
of Mackintosh, Rembrandt and Whistler. The new Roman Frontier
Gallery will illustrate the fascinating story of how the
people of Scotland interacted with the occupying Roman army
with a series of displays of the internationally acclaimed
collection of artefacts from 2000 years ago. Visitors can also
browse the collection of more than a million objects and enjoy
new opening hours.
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| |  | | Stirling Castle
invites visitors to its Royal Court
From
summer 2011 visitors will be able to step back into the
sumptuous world of Stirling Castle’s royal court. The £12
million project will return the six ground floor apartments in
the castle’s Renaissance palace to how they may have looked in
the mid-16th century. Years of research have been carried out
to ensure that every detail – from the magnificent four-poster
beds to the heraldic decorations on the walls – will be as
authentic as possible. Costumed performers in the role of
guards or ladies in waiting will help make a visit even more
enjoyable.
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| |  | | Castle Stuart,
Inverness to host Scottish Open from
7-10 July 2011
The new Castle Stuart golf
course near Inverness has pulled off a major coup by winning
the right to stage the Barclays Scottish Open in July. The
event has the potential to attract tens of thousands of
spectators and a TV audience of millions. The links course on
the Moray Firth only opened fully last year. The 2011
Championship will be played from July 7-10.
Castle Stuart
Golf Links will be the seventh Scottish course to play host to
the prestigious tournament since 1972, following in the
footsteps of Downfield, St Andrews, Haggs Castle, The
Gleneagles Hotel, Carnoustie and Loch Lomond Golf Club, which
staged proceedings over the last 15 years.
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| |  | | Eight new hotel
openings in Glasgow
As part of the
city’s ongoing focus on major infrastructure developments in
preparation for the 2014 Commonwealth Games over 1,000 hotel
rooms and luxury serviced apartments will be built between now
and 2014, shared between seven new hotels including two
five-star properties. They include the newly opened five-star
Blythswood Square hotel with its city centre spa facilities
(100 rooms), the award winning concept Citizen M (198 rooms)
and the four star Grand Central Hotel (186-rooms). The 96-room
Hotel Indigo opens this month. Future developments include The
Grasshoppers Hotel (30 rooms), Premier Inn, West Nile St
(August 2012) and the Jumeirah Glasgow.
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| |  | | Get the most out
of the Olympics and Focus Years with Expo workshops
In 2011 Scotland
celebrates the year of Active, putting the spotlight on the
exhilarating activities the country has to offer from mountain
biking to skiing to simply enjoying a walk and the great
outdoors. 2011 is also the Year of Islands placing emphasis on
the diversity of Scotland’s isles and all they have to offer.
Future Focus Years will follow with Scotland putting a focus
on Creative Scotland in 2012, Natural Scotland in 2013 in
advance of Homecoming Scotland 2014, a bumper year of
celebrations when Scotland hosts the Ryder Cup and
Commonwealth Games. Focus Years and Olympics workshops will be
held during Expo for attending buyers. Sessions will also be
held to assist buyers with appointment making. Find out more
by visiting the VisitScotland stand at Expo.
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