Speak Scotland: Part 2 | Key messages | Tune into Tourism
Key messages from our guests on Speak Scotland part 2, in this Tune into Tourism mini-series focussed on using our native Scottish languages to boost our tourism businesses.
Get in touch to tell us how you are using language in your tourism business: SpeakScotland@hient.co.uk
Our Guests:
Rob McKinnon
Although Rob was born in Glasgow, he grew up in England as one of the Hebridean diaspora - his accent was English, yet his upbringing Hebridean. He studied in France and spent time in Australia before following an international business career in food and then hospitality - including a stint working for the Prince of Wales and some time opening a boutique resort in the Caribbean.
Regular trips back to Harris to visit family, led to building a holiday home on the beaches of West Harris a decade ago, which in turn led him to get involved with tourism on the islands.
Coming from a Gaelic-speaking family, but not learning it as a child, he decided to take the plunge about five years ago to study the language at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, as his connections to the islands strengthened.
He now runs Outer Hebrides Tourism work on the new Scottish Tourism Strategy as part of the Scottish Tourism Alliance, manages one of the islands' leading self-catering properties, and is in the process of opening a Hebridean craft brewery.
Eilidh Cormack
Eilidh Cormack, from the Isle of Skye, was recently named the Scottish Government's Gaelic Ambassador of the Year for her work in supporting the language. An experienced Gaelic singer, she also works at the Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic as a Corpus Assistant, and also as primary Blasad Gàidhlig (Gaelic Taster session) tutor for primary-age children in the Central Belt.
Hailing from a family of well-known Gaelic singers, she grew up learning the Gaelic songs, came through the Fèisean movement, and competing in Mods. She is now passionate about protecting and preserving the tradition, by both respecting the rich resources of the past, and bringing the language to new audiences.
She’s recently worked with Ged Grimes of Simple Minds, and was part of Netflix blockbuster film Outlaw King– including teaching some of the stars of the film some Gaelic too.
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MV Hebridean Princess Cruise Ship Tour - Hebridean Island Cruises
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MV Hebridean Princess is a cruise ship deliver worked by Hebridean Island Luxury Cruises. She began life as the MacBrayne auto ship and Royal Mail Ship, at first RMS then MV Columba, situated in Oban for the initial 25 years of her life, conveying up to 600 travelers, and 50 autos, between the Scottish islands.
She experienced a noteworthy refit at George Prior Engineering in Great Yarmouth in 1989, rising as the journey transport, MV Hebridean Princess. She started working on 26 May 1989 and gives travels around the Western Isles of Scotland. All the more as of late, schedules have been stretched out to incorporate Ireland, the Orkney and Shetland islands, the Norwegian Fjords and the Isles of Scilly.
At first, she held an auto conveying ability, giving the alternative of leaving at halfway ports. Inside two years the auto conveying limit was expelled and extra lodges built to permit an emotional increment in the group to-visitor proportion. By 1997, a team of 37 was serving only 49 travelers in extensive extravagance.
From 21 July to 29 July 2006, HM Cunard's Queen Elizabeth II sanctioned Hebridean Princess for a 'family occasion' around the Scottish Islands to stamp her 80th birthday. The Queen supposedly paid £125,000 for the utilization of the ship.
In June 2009, All Leisure Group, which additionally claims the Swan Hellenic and Voyages of Discovery lines, obtained the organization. The organization name was changed from Hebridean International Cruises (utilized when MV Hebridean Spirit was working remote ocean schedules), to its ebb and flow name, however the ship keeps on working as it did before the assume control.
In 2010 HM Queen Elizabeth II sanctioned Hebridean Princess for another 'family occasion' around the Scottish Islands, cruising from Stornoway on 23 July for two weeks.
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