Benefits
About
News
Events
Resources
Forum
Your account

Month: May 2022

ASSC’s Leading Ladies Scoop Top Awards

Posted on by Fiona Campbell

Three of the Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers female management have been presented with a series of top industry awards.

Chief Executive, Fiona Campbell, Company Secretary and Communications Officer, Melanie Allen, and Director, Tara Scott, were all ranked among the Top 100 Women in Tourism 2022.

The prestigious list, compiled by Women in Tourism[1], recognises the hard work, dedication, and vision of women who are doing amazing things in Scotland’s tourism industry.

Fiona was also recently awarded the Pioneer trophy at the Shortyz awards, commonly referred to as the “Oscars for the short-term rental industry”, at a ceremony in London.

The ASSC Chief Executive was given the award in recognition of her being “a business leader with exceptional vision and leadership”, according to the event organisers.

Everyone involved in the ASSC are incredibly proud of Fiona, Tara, and Melanie for their achievements and thanks them for all their hard work on behalf of Scottish self-catering.

Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers Chief Executive, Fiona Campbell, said:

“My colleagues and I are thrilled to have received these awards, they are very important to us.

“We work brilliantly as a team and I’m proud to have such diligent, conscientious, and supportive colleagues.

“As our industry recovers from the impact of COVID-19 and continues to deal with the other issues we face, I am confident that, with my teammates by my side, we will continue to do Scottish self-catering, as well as the wider tourism industry, proud.”

ASSC CEO Wins Shortyz Pioneer Award 2022

Posted on by Fiona Campbell

We are utterly thrilled that our chief executive, Fiona Campbell, was awarded the ‘Pioneer’ trophy at the Shortyz Awards in London last night. She came out on top of a strong list of candidates as “a business leader with exceptional vision and leadership”. We’re very proud!

Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers Chief Executive, Fiona Campbell, said:

“I am thrilled to have been given this award and my team and I consider it an honour to join the other great winners.

 “Our sector has gone through so much recently but it is through the hard work and dedication of those within self-catering that we continue to do what we do best every day.

“On behalf of the ASSC, I would like to thank the organisers and everyone involved in making these awards happen and send my congratulations to all my colleagues who have been recognised.”

We have received some wonderful messages of congratulations from our members:

  • Well done Fiona and thank you. You have taken the ASSC to a new level; guiding everyone through pandemic worries, raising the profile of ASSC and adding to the value of membership.
  • So well deserved, we owe her so much, Fiona and team work tirelessly for our industry. Well done and congratulations.
  • Well deserved Fiona. Inspirational and committed leader.
  • Congratulations Fiona, very well deserved. Thank you for the continued hard work and commitment on behalf of the ASSC members.
  • Excellent! Massive congratulations Fiona. Very well deserved. Thank you to you and the ASSC team for everything you do for our industry.
  • Congratulations Fiona and the ASSC team. A great and well-deserved accolade.

Survey: Economic Conditions for Scotland’s Tourism Industry

Posted on by Fiona Campbell

The Scottish Tourism Alliance has launched its most comprehensive study into economic conditions for Scotland’s tourism industry.

The Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA), the leadership body representing Scotland’s tourism industry has launched its most comprehensive study into the challenges and opportunities for the sector ahead of this year’s tourist season with a survey which can be completed here.

The in-depth survey serves as an economic pulse check to gain further insights into the current and future commercial viability of Scotland’s tourism businesses, looking through the lens of the cost-of-living crisis and the impact which rising energy costs are having on the sector.

This survey is for all sizes and types of Tourism and Hospitality businesses.

Questions focus on challenges around staffing and recruitment, where businesses are on their journey towards Net Zero, what policies are helping or hindering recovery for the sector, current and future bookings from an international and domestic perspective, global competitiveness and where businesses are in relation to recovery.

There are options throughout the survey to add concerns by opting for ‘Other’ in the survey. This is where you might add you own personal concerns about Short-Term Let Licensing and Planning Control Area Legislation, or anything else. 

Scotland’s Tourism Strategy ‘Scotland Outlook 2030’ was launched just a few weeks prior to the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020; the vision of that strategy remains – ‘Scotland will be the leaders in 21st century tourism’ and this ambition continues to propel our activities and focus through recovery.

It is so important for the STA, and all tourism stakeholders, to glean an accurate picture of the industry to enable us to influence change and steer the sector on the right path to realising our tourism strategy vision and we would ask that all tourism businesses complete the survey. The survey will run for three weeks.

This will become a quarterly survey and used to inform the STA’s regular conversation with UK and Scottish Government Ministers.

The survey has 40 questions and will take around 20 minutes to complete.

Please note that survey responses are anonymous.

This is what is needed to bring about supportive policy change – without your views and evidence the journey to doing that is much longer and harder, so thank you in advance.

You can complete the survey here.