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each other and that was a long way in those days. And Glasgow and Edinburgh were very different. Glasgow guides I think dealt mainly with Burns Country and Loch Lomond. Glasgow wasn’t regarded very much as a tourist attraction in its own right in those days. Oh, how things have changed. There was also a loosely-organised group up north as I remember.’
In 1969 recognition of the importance of tourism to the UK economy came in the form of The Development of Tourism Act (1969), which resulted in the Scottish Tourist Board becoming a statutory rather than a voluntary body and its future impact was going to have dramatic results for the growth of guiding in Scotland.
The second version of the Blue Badge
The third version of the Blue Badge
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