GETTING THERE: Future Access to Special Places
Venue: THE MACDONALD AVIEMORE HIGHLAND RESORT
Location: Aviemore, Scotland, United Kingdom
Event Date/Time: May 16, 2007 | End Date/Time: May 18, 2007 |
Description
2007 is a year of cultural celebration in the Scottish Highlands, and this special conference not only marks the 30th Anniversary of the Tourism Society, but also celebrates the significant contribution that Scottish cultural and natural heritage makes to the national tourism profile.
Key speakers include Peter Lederer, Chairman of VisitScotland; William Roe, Chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise; David Green, Convener of the Cairngorms National Park Authority; Professor Sandy Pentland, Media Lab, MIT; Dr. Nancy Arsenault, Dean of Tourism at Royal Roads University, Canada and Professor Stephen Tinsley from the Sustainable Development Research Centre, UHI.
The conference is being organised in collaboration with the UHI Millennium Institute (UHI), a distinctive and innovative higher education institution offering vocational, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Its distinctive MSc in Interpretation: management and practice is a unique programme borne out of a multi-agency collaboration, that seeks to promote Scotland's position as a world leader in the thinking and practice of the interpretation cultural and natural heritage- two of Scotland's key assets.
The conference dinner will be held on Thursday 17th May in the highest restaurant in the UK, at 3,500 feet up the Cairngorm Mountain in Cairngorm National Park, accessible only by funicular railway! The conference will also include study visits to Rothiemurchus Estate, the Highland Folk Museum, Culloden Battlefield, Glenmore Visitor Centre and Loch Garten Osprey Centre.
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