DMO Events & Courses 2010
For Further Information on any of the Events and Courses below, please email info@discoverroyaldeeside.com
16 June 2010 - Location Balmoral Castle Coffee Shop - Time 6 for 6.30pm to 8.30pm - DMO Business meeting open to all. The Theme will be Food and Drink and top chef George McIver will be giving a demonstration.
1 June 2010 - Rising Stars - Customer Service Development Programme - additional date added.
27 April 2010 - Rising Stars - Customer Service Development Programme for Hotels. Venue: Glen Luid Hotel. Details from DMO office.
20 April 2010 - Rising Stars - Customer Service Development Programme for Activity Centres. Venue: The Lodge on the Loch. 30 March - Workshop on Accommodation and Product Gaps in Deeside. 11am -1pm Craigendarroch Hotel, Ballater 26 March - Social Media Workshop for Tourism Business. Banchory Lodge Hotel. Rene Looper will help businesses to see that Facebook, Flickr and Twitter are not just for keeping in touch with friends and family. The event, which will be held on Friday 26 March at Banchory Lodge Hotel from 10.30am, will show how social networking sites can used to work as a valuable tool for tourism businesses. 16 March 2010 - Rising Stars - Customer Service Development Programme for Bed and Breakfast establishments. Venue: Loch Kinord Hotel. 16 February 2010 - Leading Stars Customer Service Development Programme. Venue: Glen Lui Hotel. 12 March 2010 - Developing Tourism in Deeisde B2B Event. 11am - 2.30 pm. The Lodge on the Loch, Aboyne
25 March 2010 - Rising Stars - Customer Service Development Programme for Self Catering establishments. Venue: Balmoral Castle Cottages.
1 March 2010 - Royal Deeside Food Tourism Project - Open Meeting and Workshop. Venue: Marcliffe Hotel
OLDER NEWS
SELLING ROYAL DEESIDE - Thursday 9 July at the Hilton Craigendarroch, Ballater at 6.30 for 7pm. Open evening for local businesses in the Deeside and Strathdon area on Thursday 9 July at the Hilton Craigendarroch, Ballater at 6.30 for 7pm.
"New brand move aims to make Royal Deeside food world famous
group looks at ways to market area as a year-round mecca for food lovers" By Leanna MacLarty - Published: 13/10/2009 P&J
The Royal Deeside and Cairngorms Destination Management Organisation (DMO) wants to promote the quality produce worldwide and is looking at ways to market the area as a year-round destination for food lovers.Improving the links between food producers and places that sell the finished product is one of the group’s priorities. Farmers, hoteliers and shop owners attended a workshop to look at developing a new brand promoting Royal Deeside food.
Twenty-five representatives from food makers and sellers throughout the region shared ideas at a meeting at Milton Restaurant, at Crathes, yesterday.DMO Management Organisation chairwoman Claire Bruce said: “There are a number of quality food producers in the area and it’s about trying to maximise and promote the use of them. There is a feeling food is not promoted enough in this area. Perhaps chefs don’t use it and visitors don’t know about it.”
The DMO is compiling a list of all food producers and outlets in the region to get a better picture of what is available.It hopes to enlist more local firms to join the initiative and look at ways of producing a collective Royal Deeside food brand.Ken Howie, who runs the Cairnton Aberdeen-Angus beef enterprise at Lumphanan, said: “It’s important to promote food, particularly to folk on the front line of the tourism business.“We just need to remind them sometimes that what we have got on our doorstep is really second to none. “We are not really very good at blowing our own trumpet about the tremendous environment we have got here.”
Ideas to promote the industry include introducing special events and festivals outside the main summer season and more education about local food in schools.Rapeseed oil producer John Sorrie, who runs Ola Oils at Inverurie with his wife Connie, said the meeting was very positive.He added: “We all agree it’s very important to get a branding for all the different types of produce the area has. “People don’t appreciate how much is produced and the quality of the produce literally on our doorstep.“It’s just a case now of taking the next step forward.”Among the firms promoting local food producers is Deeside Hampers, on Dinnet Estate. www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1437102