A suite of new tourism projects arising from Glasgow-Edinburgh collaboration promises to make visiting Scotland a better experience, and boost the country’s tourism performance. Read more…
Only 4% of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe audience come from Glasgow and Strathclyde. Reasons for this include problems of late night transport – but now things are in train to improve matters. Attracting more festival-goers from the West would help secure Edinburgh’s position as the world’s leading arts festival city. Read more…
Some Scots’ support for Trinidad & Tobago might have ruffled a few feathers south of the Border but it made new friends too! Now the Trinidad & Tobago Tourist Board is hosting parties in Glasgow and Edinburgh as a thank you to their Scottish fans! Read more…
New figures show only 4% of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe audience come from Glasgow and Strathclyde. Reasons for this include problems of late night transport, Glasgow’s own festivals calendar, and outdated inter-city attitudes. However, while the West’s audience share may seem small, even fewer come from Edinburgh’s surrounding region, with only 2% from East, Mid and West Lothian.
Scotland on Sunday, 4 June 2006
Glasgow and Edinburgh have been nominated for awards by the Academy of Urbanism.
Edinburgh was nominated as “European City of the Year”, while Glasgow’s Merchant City nominated in the “Great Neighbourhood” category.
Hugh Pearman, writing in the Sunday Times, asked, “do I prefer Edinburgh to Glasgow, which apparently just missed the cut for the city nomination … Perhaps the two great Scottish cities should be considered as one? That will never wash; the rivalry is too intense.” Collaboration still has some way to go, it seems!
Glasgow and Edinburgh generated almost as much extra GDP from 1995-2004 as the rest of Scotland combined - despite just a 20% share of the population BAK Basel Economics, 2005