Scotland's New Tourism message

jhuskey

I have heard that Scotland has a new welcome message. After months of study and over $200,000 US a new and better vehicle to bring more tourist dollars to what was touted as "The best little country".
The new message............"Welcome to Scotland".
I would have given them that one for half the cost.
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El Loto

I have to hold my hands up and admit I did not vote for the SNP.

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limerickman

Welcome to Scotland.
It is ridiculous having spent that level of money that they couldn't have come up with a better tagline.

But - it seems that all things Scottish are in the ascendency according to yesterdays Guardian newspaper.
According to several surveys taken, the ordinary Scot is happy with his lot (basically the survey was to see if people were satisfied with life under the SNP)

Scotland has punched far above it's weight for decades : look at cycling for example : Robert Millar, Chris Hoy, Graeme Obree.
Throw in other sports Hendry (snooker), football (Law, Dalgleish, Souness, Hansen), Boxing (Watt), Rugby, Golf, Swimming (Wilkie) :
The list is endless.

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morelike hypocrisy.

nns1400

LOL! You know, I think I simply MUST visit Scotland now! How could I not go there?? They are welcoming me!

(Actually, I really would like to go to Scotland --and that was before they spent 200K)

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buckybux

I do this stuff for a living, and the price is reasonable. However, as is typical in bureaucratic organizations, by the time everyone provides thier opinion, you end up with a white washed program, thus a tagline that is really generic.

To get the good lines, the organization has to be willing to take a risk whcih is exactly what bureaurrates don't want to do. They are paid to manage, not to take risks.

Crankyfeet

What about:

"Scotland: On top of England - and there's nothing those bastards can do about it."

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nns1400

ROFL!!!

I was thinking of

"If it's nae Scottish....it's crrrrrap!"

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MountainPro

utter shite, a complete waste of money. I DID vote SNP but this is trully a waste of money. "The best small country in the world" was decided to be to negative, the use of the word "small" being the offending adjective in this case. Personally i liked the old slogan but what you gonna do?

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jhuskey

Bout time you replied. How about "smaller than some better than most"?
Tell them they can have that one at no charge.

OK, I am headed out to do at cat 1 climb. Ouchy!

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slovakguy

scotland probably should have left well enough alone by just going with a tape loop of rentboy's rant about scotland from "trainspotting".

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