{"id":15157,"date":"2017-03-17T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=15157"},"modified":"2017-03-17T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T17:09:00","slug":"scotlands-special-themed-tourism-years-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15157","title":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s special themed tourism years unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Scotland_image_FN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15159\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Scotland_image_FN-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Scotland seascape\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>It has been confirmed that Scotland\u2019s themed Years\u2019 tourism programme will continue beyond 2018, with built and cultural heritage continuing as a central feature.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Government writes:<\/p>\n<p>The Year of Scotland\u2019s Coast and Waters will be celebrated in 2020 while the focus in 2022 will be the Year of Scotland\u2019s Stories, both led by VisitScotland.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 theme will support Scotland\u2019s marine and coastal tourism sector, as well as the marine tourism strategy \u2018Awakening the Giant\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s Stories will be a showcase of the country\u2019s rich literature, film, oral traditions and myths and legends.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Scottish Tourism Week Signature Conference organised by the Scottish Tourism Alliance, Tourism Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: \u2018The Themed Years programme has succeeded in giving Scottish tourism an edge, galvanising partners to work together to promote Scotland and its people.\u00a0 Organisations and individuals who participated in the recent consultation were in favour of continuing with themed years. More importantly, a significant majority found the programme to be beneficial to their business or organisation. We also listened to the views expressed that the programme would benefit from longer time scales and the Years will now be delivered in a two year cycle.\u00a0 I am pleased that the programme will continue up to 2022, providing an ideal way to continue to celebrate the best of Scotland.\u2019<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Scotland is celebrating the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventscotland.org\/funding\/year-of-history-heritage-and-archaeology-2017\/\">Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology<\/a>. 2018 will be the Year of Young People, a year aimed to inspire Scotland through its young people and celebrate their achievements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.gov.scot\/news\/scotlands-special-themed-years-unveiled\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been confirmed that Scotland\u2019s themed Years\u2019 tourism programme will continue beyond 2018, with built and cultural heritage continuing as a central feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15160,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions\/15160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}