Dust Clouds on the RiseView from Kinoull Hill

Perthshire Business continues to increase visitor traffic at the constant rate of 14% per quarter. Our overall traffic ranking has risen 308,344 places in the search engines during the last 3 month.

Readership figures for the last quarter were 3,900 people.
Visitor breakdowns include 64% UK, 18% Germany, 11% USA, 5% Hong Kong and 2% from the rest of the world. The average visitor now reads 5 pages before leaving. 28% of visitors stay longer than 5 minutes. Our visitors are interested in local business, Perth and Kinross council, Perthshire chamber, touring around Perth and general tourism.

Our local tourism pages have been deliberately left blank to allow Perthshire guest houses, hotels, restaurants and other local attractions the opportunity to advertise their business for free.


Best Value Practise
How much is it costing to send two council officers and Councillor Alan Livingstone to New York Tartan Week 2006. The official approved figure is £38,000 for three people. Slightly more than the council spent on a promotional magazine for the G8 Summit. Lets hope they are taking the leftover (7,000) magazines from the G8 Summit with them.

Where's the Best Value in the £38,000 bill to the taxpayer?
VisitScotland were allocated £300,000 of local money to promote Perthshire.
Have they spent it already?
Thought we already paid for Councillor Livingstone to visit China?

Perthshire Business priced an 11 day junket in the Big Apple for three:
Flights £900
Accommodation £4000
Misc food, travel,lager etc. £5000
Total Cost £9,900  Stand and Deliver

Abolishing the Bridge Trolls

The Dundee Courier is currently running a campaign to abolish the tolls on the Tay Road Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge. Both bridges are important to the economic development of Perthshire.


Why did the Lord Provost of Perth vote to raise the tolls to £4 last January?


Trip Trapping on the Bridge