ࡱ> 0.1[ bjbj 4ΐΐ     +AAAAsuuuuuu$VAA"AAssA y %._0SFhJ< F : PRESS RELEASE THE TWEED VALLEY TOURIST CONSORTIUMS 6TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TUESDAY 8 DECEMBER AT DE VERE VENUE BARONY CASTLE Thursday, 10 December 2009 Members of the Tweed Valley Tourist Consortium (TVTC) met at the De Vere Venue Barony Castle for their 6th Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, 8 December 2009. The Tweed Valley Tourist Consortium has grown rapidly since it was started in 2003 and now represents over 67 local tourism businesses. With confirmed funding from the Scottish Government and the European Community Scottish Borders LEADER 2007-13 programme in January of this year, the group have been able to employ a Development Manager (Sarah McDonald) who has been hard at work putting in place a busy programme of marketing activity and development of the Tweed Valley Tourist Consortium brand Chair, Catherine Maxwell Stuart of Traquair, was delighted to report that membership had grown over 30% in 2009 and a tremendous amount of activity had been carried out including a new website ( HYPERLINK "https://www.visittweedvalley.co.uk" www.visittweedvalley.co.uk) developed by Steve Douglas of Wired Nomad, new marketing materials and attendance at trade shows. She commented, We are well on our way to achieving our objective of becoming a world class activity destination by 2015. It is down to all our members passion and enthusiasm for the area which has seen this group go from strength to strength. The meeting also heard from Deidre Latimer, Chair of the Deidre Latimer, Glentrail House, Chair of the Mountain Bike sub group who ran through the many successful events that had taken place in the Tweed Valley and the pointed out that there were even more opportunities for 2010 so much so that it was felt an event sub group was called for to ensure all ran smoothly. The group has also developed a sustainable tourism sub group in the past year led by Kate Innes of the Tontine Hotel who reported on a very success green seminar for tourism businesses that had taken place at the Tontine in November. A Christmas lunch was kindly provided by Barony and thanks were passed on to Kieran Whyte and his team for hosting the day. 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