Develop your business
You can develop new and improved ways of working through the wide range of innovation projects and activities we offer. Innovation is vital to all successful tourism businesses. Companies with the most distinctive, innovative products can remain competitive and continue to attract and retain visitors. Our programme of support is already helping many tourism businesses turn their innovative ideas into commercial reality.
Innovation toolkit
Think more creatively and improve your tourism business. Our tourism innovation toolkit programme provides a range of tips and techniques to help
Use our tourism innovation toolkit
Tourism Innovation Development Awards (TIDAs)
The TIDAs provide funding assistance and support to help you deliver genuinely innovative tourism projects across Scotland. They were developed to help stimulate creative and innovative thinking. The new scheme is scheduled to run in September 2008.
Online tourism
If you already have a website and would like to develop its true potential, our tourism e-business workshops, ‘Making the web work for you’, can help.
Find out more about the ‘Making the web work for you’ workshops
Business Gateway provides free advice on getting the right kind of equipment, IT connections and training.
Get more e-business information from Business Gateway
Hospitality Assured
By putting your customers at the heart of all you do, businesses of all sizes can become Hospitality Assured. The programme promotes and rewards the highest standards of service excellence for organisations in the hospitality industry.
Find out more on the Hospitality Assured website
Newsletter
Download the latest issue of our Tourism Innovation in Action newsletter (PDF, 474kb)