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In 2017 the branch organised a series of walking tours to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the New Town in association with the Edinburgh Tourism Action Group and Essential Edinburgh.
Edinburgh’s Georgian Shadows Walking Tours attracted over 900 visitors and forged links with key tourism organisations in Edinburgh as well as some local businesses.
The tours initiative also won a place in the regional finals of the Scottish Thistle Awards.
The following year the branch ran another series of walks to help promote a marketing campaign focusing on 101 objects which played a part in the history of `Edinburgh.
A regular topic of conversation for guides over the decades has been about the provision of public toilets and in 2019 things came to a head in Edinburgh following a series of closures and the banning of coach parties using the Holyrood Palace toilets when they were not actually visiting it.
As a result the Edinburgh branch set up a committee to compile a list of toilets guests could use in the city but they also lobbied the city council about the lack of public conveniences.
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