EventScotland

Multiple Sports
Events

Having called time on 20 years spearheading Scotland’s event strategy, Paul Bush flags a need for increasingly “robust” business cases from hosts in a tough economic climate, while reflecting on left-field proposals that didn’t make the cut, including a shared Winter Olympics with Nordic countries.
Orienteering
Events

The Sprint World Orienteering Championships probably doesn't feature on your sporting calendar this weekend. But if it wasn't for last-minute deals for 3,000 free sausage rolls and a supply of kilts to help balance the budget, it might not have appeared on anyone else's.
Multi-sport
Events

Scottish authorities are engaged in talks over Glasgow staging the 2026 Commonwealth Games, 12 years on from playing host, as the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) bids to finally nail down a city or region to rescue the event.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

National tourism agency VisitScotland is to look for a new leader of its major events strategy after the experienced Paul Bush decided to step down from his role
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

EventScotland, an arm of the national tourism organisation that brings sports and cultural events to Scotland, has appointed UK Sport’s Rebecca Edser as its new head.
Multiple Sports
Events

Paul Bush, director of events at VisitScotland, the national tourism agency, has outlined a “perfect storm” of factors that threaten event hosts in the coming years amid the current macroeconomic factors.
Cycling
Events

Organisers of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow and across Scotland are preparing to step up the promotion of the event and remain confident it will be delivered to budget despite macroeconomic…
Cycling
Events

The 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships will take place from August 3 to 13, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and organisers have announced today (Wednesday)
Athletics
Events

Glasgow's Emirates Arena has been awarded the hosting rights to the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships
Cycling
Sponsorship & Marketing

Organisers of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships, which will be held in Glasgow and across Scotland, have appointed Inside Edge, the UK-based sponsorship agency and consultancy, to sell sponsorship…
Events

The Scottish government has announced that it will provide an additional £13m ($17.3m/€14.2m
Cycling
Industry Moves

Scotland’s national tourist board VisitScotland has started its recruitment process for a director of commercial, marketing and communications at the inaugural UCI Cycling World Championships to be held i…
Cycling
Events

Scotland’s national tourist board VisitScotland is seeking to recruit a chief executive and four independent board members to help deliver and oversee the inaugural UCI Cycling World Championships to b…
Events

EventScotland and Tourism and Events Queensland (TEQ) have signed a Memorandum of Understand (MoU) designed to drive best practice in the securing and delivering of major sporting, cultural and business…
Events

A series of “macro threats” pose risks to the sporting and cultural events hosting model in Scotland and internationally, according to Paul Bush, director of events at VisitScotland, the national tourism age…

The 2014 edition of multi-sport event the Commonwealth Games contributed more than £740m (€1.04bn/$1.15bn) to Scotland’s economy and supported thousands of new jobs, according to the findings of a new report.

Ice Skating

Glasgow has become the latest city to submit a bid to host the International Skating Union’s 2017 World Figure Skating Championships.
Events

Organisers of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games have revealed that 92 per cent of public tickets have been sold, with 60 per cent retailing at £25 or under.