Aberdour station up for top award

Aberdour station has been nominated as one of the best stations in Britain. ScotRail has announced that Aberdour station has been shortlisted in the ‘Station of the Year’ category of the National Rail Awards 2018. The West Fife railway station will be judged against set criteria, including safety, infrastructure and…

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Food and drinks’ trends in France

According to Camille Harel at LSA-Consommation, the French food market is going through a deep transformation with the emergence of gluten-free, lactose-free, vegan, organic products and so on. Indeed, the French have more and more an appetite for alternative products. According to a Bjorg, Bonneterre and Compagnie’s study carried out…

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Wallonia, creative and innovative, inventive and creating.

Above all, Wallonia means a climate, an environment that is particularly favourable to new ideas, imagination and innovation. As a region that naturally excels in creativity, Wallonia is a place of meetings, exchange and sharing of expertise, an inspired location where multiple top level skills combine and regularly result in…

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Business Opportunities and Jurisdictions to Choose from in the UAE.

The UAE enjoys a strategic position that allows it to present unlimited opportunities across a wide range of sectors. The UAE is now a hotbed of innovation brimming with new ideas. Being a hub for new ideas is reclamation of a long tradition of Arab thinking and research. “Being amongst…

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Putting Edinburgh in the global spotlight

Scotland is Now campaign showcasing Edinburgh to the world Tourism is more than a holiday experience – every visit enriches our country and the people we welcome. At VisitScotland, we aim to inspire life-long love affairs with our country through bold leadership, hard work and imagination; inspiring, engaging and bringing…

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International Update from the City Chambers

The Council has received many international delegations throughout the busy Festival period, and on each occasion there is an opportunity to link in partners across the city where strategic connections can be further explored to mutual benefit.  Our International Visits Management Scheme is in place throughout the year and helps…

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Tom Kitchin – From Paris to Edinburgh

‘I knew I wanted to be a chef by the age of 13 when I got a job working in the local country pub close to my family home. After that I went to study Catering at Perth College before securing a placement at the Gleneagles Hotel as a young 16…

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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe: the World’s Fringe

The curtain has fallen on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for another year. Shows took place in 317 venues across the city, ranging from large theatres to a chicken coop with a capacity of just three. Audiences were encouraged to take a leap into the unknown and sample the unparalleled variety…

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 1.5 million passenger barrier broken for the first time in Scotland

We’re always busy at Edinburgh Airport, which is a good thing since we’re in the business of moving people, but it’s the summer season when we see a surge in our activity. The buzz at the airport is great. You can sense it when you arrive and knowing we play…

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Luxembourg Business delegation visits Edinburgh and Glasgow from 29th –  2nd November  

Luxembourg is one of the world’s most open economies, a key member of the EU and an economic power of the Greater Region – a cross border region covering neighbouring regions in Belgium, France and Germany with a population of more than 11.5 million. On the 29th October, the Edinburgh…

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