Glasgow-Edinburgh Collaboration

Glasgow, Edinburgh and Scotland’s other cities have no plans to follow the lead of some English cities in introducing road pricing. Road more…

Collaboration director, Laura Gordon, recently addressed Edinburgh business leaders about the potential and achievements of collaboration. You can watch Scottish Television’s report of the event.

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Timberbush Tours is launching “Twin City Treasures” tours, which “offer a fascinating insight into some of the key historic buildings of Edinburgh and Glasgow, combined into a day’s tour”. Read more…

These new tours come as the latest edition of the popular Lonely Planet Great Britain travel guide heaps more praise on Scotland’s biggest cities, saying: describing Glasgow as “alive and kicking with a significant cultural contribution to make” and “one of the UK’s premier shopping destinations”. Edinburgh is described as “one of the most sophisticated cities in the world” and the Royal Mile as “one of the world’s most romantic streets”.

The Lonely Planet’s warm words follow top ratings for Glasgow and Edinburgh from Conde Nast Traveller and Guardian Travel readers in 2006. Read more…

VisitScotland’s recent award-winning marketing campaign, combining the attractions of Glasgow and Edinburgh, is estimated to have brought millions of extra pounds revenue to the two cities.

The latest Marketing Excellence Awards Scotland have recognised Glasgow-Edinburgh’s joint campaign. it is estimated that £11m extra revenue can be attributed to the campaign, which also 750,000 website hits, and saw 120 European journalists provided with tours and information which they translated into copy reaching 38m readers. Read more…

City collaboration Director, Laura Gordon, was the feature of a recent profile in the Financial Times’ Financial Adviser section. Read more…

We’ve covered just about every form of transport on these pages… Saturday 12 May sees the 150th regatta boat race between Glasgow & Edinburgh on the River Clyde at Glasgow Green.

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