23/03/2024
Many congratulations Gary
I am truly honoured to receive the Special Recognition Award 2024 at last nights Scottish Golf Tourism Awards. To receive this, and to have it happen in front of so many industry colleagues who I am privileged to call my friends, was a humbling experience. Just when I thought I couldn’t get any more emotional, my family were brought on to present me with the award.
If I had any inkling this was going to happen I would have managed to say some more appropriate words of thanks, specifically to everyone at DC Thomson and The Kingsmills Hotel who put on such an outstanding Scottish Golf Tourism Week in Inverness.
The true success of tourism in Scotland is derived from developing mutually beneficial partnerships and it’s the golf sector where these collaborations can produce amazing results and this will surely be the start of many new relationships.
SIGTOA is an association I have been proud to Chair on two occasions. The members, who are all competitors, continually surprise me with the ease in which they share information and statistics which, in turn, allow us to evaluate booking trends and patterns of the international golfer coming to Scotland.
SIGTOAs partnership with the , where we mitigate all of the carbon emissions associated with clients’ travel around the home of golf, is a world first and something all members are committed to.
Just like last night, and after my own diagnosis, I encourage all men who may be experiencing a slight change to the flow and frequency in which they urinate to get a PSA test to help identify if they have early stages of Prostate Cancer, which if caught early can be successfully treated.
Sigtoa Association
Scottish Golf
Scottish Golf Tourism Week
Kingsmills Hotel, Inverness
Ness Walk