VIP's:
"Tourism 21st Century Style" by Yvonne Crook, Director of View Marketing
"A Taste of Galloway" by Chirstie Paterson of Laughtmuireside Farm

View Marketing:
Based in the heart of the Highlands, View Marketing provides strategic and creative solutions for a range of international tourism and leisure clients. Over the past seven years, the company has built up an interesting, innovative and diverse client base including Jacobite - Experience Loch Ness, Speyside - home of malt whisky, Kitzbühel Tourism, Visit Denmark, Northern Ireland Tourist Board, IMI – Swiss Hotel Management School, the Cairngorms National Park Authority and the Buccleuch Group.

Widely recognised for pioneering the destination management concept in the UK, The Stevens View Partnership comprises leading international tourism consultant, Professor Terry Stevens, and strategic marketing and tourism consultancy View Marketing, headed up by founder Yvonne Crook. (www.viewmarketing.com)

A Taste of Galloway:
Earning a living from farming can be tough but Chirstie and Callum have embraced the challenge with their own pure Galloway cattle, Blackface sheep and Saddleback pigs raised in Thornhill.  Their business incorporates farming, outside catering and ready to order produce including Galloway beef steaks, burgers, sausages, mince, pot roasts, a lamb, mutton and cured bacon selection, haggis and the famous Galloway Steak & Ale Pie. 

A Taste of Galloway has effectively developed an online business with orders from their website as well as establishing themselves at the farmers markets when it appeared to be saturated with other meat producers. Chirstie is pleased to share their story with Thrive. (www.atasteofgalloway.co.uk)

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