Programme

Reach for the Stars, …starring brilliance in bed and breakfast!

Thursday 6th March - Drumossie Hotel Inverness

Start time: 9.30am – for 10.00am registration
10.00am Welcome & Opening Address
Highland Tourism – A vision for the future
Willie Cameron
10.20am Workshop sessions
  • IT
  • Legislation
  • Best Practice
  • Food tourism
  Coffee
11.40am Speaker – Professor John Lennon , Moffat Centre
“My Guest”
12.00pm Workshop sessions (Choice of four as above)
1.00pm Networking Lunch
Showcasing excellent and innovative breakfast dishes in a Breakfast Bazaar using local producers and local Highland products
(During lunch there will be stands of quality local products and suppliers with goods and services available to the B & B audience) 		Salar - Delicious Flaky Smoked Salmon
2.00pm Session 1: “B & B My Guest”
3 speakers from B & B’s in the Highlands
  • Rumblie B & B Newtonmore – Targeting Niche markets
  • Joan Campbell – Scotland’s Silver Thistle winner of 2007
  • Lorraine Freel – Trafford Bank Guest House
    (Top 10 B & B’s in Europe, AA Landlady of the year 2007)
2.50pm Innovation session
Year of Homecoming Exercise
How can we work together to create new Visitor experiences for the year of Homecoming in 2009?
3.40pm Colin Macgregor – Motivational address
“Reach for the stars – why not?”
4.15pm Finish & Tea