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POCKET SIZED STORYTELLING

Meet the Worrywarts, a mindful collection of friends designed to take your worries away. Inspired by the Guatemalan Worry-dolls she received as a child, these palm sized companions are hand crafted by artist Zoe Scott in her rural zero waste studio.

Cast in solid pigmented concrete with recycled waste plastic and glass contained within, each one is hand waxed and polished with a food grade natural wax making them incredibly tactile. One of the joys of concrete is the lack of additional power or energy required to produce it. Unlike ceramics or glass it doesn’t need kiln fired and unlike Jesmonite, its plastic free!

Each comes beautifully boxed with a unique character profile full of fun stats and illustration for immersive storytelling. The perfect travel souvenir for all ages. Bespoke exclusive designs available and encouraged, from plague doctors to microbes, elephants to Egyptian gods. Everything can become an adorable Worrywart!

Free custom design consultation is available for ASVA members

One Pebble Consulting specialises in Digital Transformation (or evolution) strategies, roadmapping and delivery support, as well as delivering training on these topics based on nearly a decade of practice with just under 50 Digital change roadmaps delivered successfully. Our projects follow a tried and tested methodology but without a one-size-fits-all approach as every client's needs are different.

Our training ranges from half-day bespoke subject modules (currently being delivered in Mauritius and Malta) to a two-day Core programme and a four-day Immersive programme

Steve Plummer has a 30+ year career centred around events, attractions, and the arts, with clients such as National Theatre Scotland, Museum Scotland, Discovery Point and a variety of festivals amongst his portfolio of clients. He’s worked internationally with artists such as Peggy Baker and Theatres such as Volcano in Toronto.

He brings a wealth of experience to any digitally driven change programme at project costs well below traditional digital consulting rates. Always open for a no obligation chat and a coffee.

GetYourGuide is the leading global online marketplace for discovering and booking travel experiences. We connect travelers with unforgettable experiences, offering a wide range of activities such as guided tours, exclusive access to must-see attractions, and immersive adventures through our Originals by GetYourGuide offering. Our platform serves travelers from over 190 countries, providing experiences in more than 150 countries worldwide. We collaborate with select suppliers to offer over 15,000 experiences, including city tours, theme parks, workshops, and more. Our mission is to help tour operators, experience creators, and attractions deliver memorable experiences to engaged travelers, ensuring they authentically connect with destinations and cultures. With regional offices around the world, we are dedicated to building the strongest global marketplace for travel experiences.

Built by the digital experts at Semantic (who have over 20 years’ of experience helping attractions) LOOP is an intuitive website platform created specifically for visitor attractions. It’s designed to grow your attraction online, is always up-to-date and evolves with you.

Moving to LOOP is easy, we take care of SEO redirects, content migration and analytics to ensure a seamless transition. With a whole suite of sector-specific modules you can have a new website in weeks, not months.

LOOP provides:

• Website, online and on-site solutions built for attractions
• 50+ sector-specific modules, layouts and components
• Low upfront cost - pay monthly/yearly, skip the big build fees
• Fast launch - go live in weeks, not months
• Easy to update CMS - edit content, pages and structure without developers
• Optimised visitor journeys - more opportunities to drive bookings
• Constant improvements - updates, features & ongoing support included
• Best practices built-in - accessible, fast, modular & scalable to help you grow

Happier guests. More revenue opportunities. Smarter marketing.

Strike Chords is a marketing and commercial strategy consultancy, offering a collaborative approach to helping your visitor attraction achieve robust commercial results and significant brand impact.

Services fall into two main areas:

• Commercial & Strategic Growth: This includes developing sustainable growth strategies, creating clear audience segments and development plans, identifying new revenue streams and developing loyalty programmes.
• Brand Engagement: this can involve developing a distinctive brand that stands out, building strategic partnerships, and planning insight-led, integrated campaigns. Given visitor experience is so heavily influenced by your people, the Strike Chords approach also focuses on aligning your brand with your organisational culture to enhance both visitor and employee engagement.

With over 25 years of experience within the Visitor Attractions sector and across wider sectors like retail and media, work as an ASVA Mystery Visitor and sitting on boards for UK-wide visitor attractions, Strike Chords is well placed to support your sustainable growth and enhanced visitor engagement. Strike Chords brings commercial acumen, a data-led approach, creative thinking and transferable knowledge from within the sector and across sectors, adapting to fit your organisation’s specific needs and culture.

56 Degree Insight is a consumer insights consultancy based in Edinburgh but serving clients across the UK, and is jointly managed by Jim Eccleston and Duncan Stewart.  Both Jim and Duncan have many years’ of client-side and agency-side research experience, especially in the field of travel, tourism and leisure research.

The company undertakes all manner of tourism-related consumer and business research – both quantitative and qualitative in nature, from visitor experience surveys, brand and advertising evaluation to focus groups and depth interviews.

With clients across the tourism sector in Scotland, other parts of the UK and overseas, the company has extensive experience in providing businesses with business insights and advice, grounded in robust research.  Additionally, 56 Degree Insight have been running and publishing the Scottish Tourism Index since the early days of Covid lockdown.  It is a now a quarterly survey of 1,000 Scottish adults and acts as a barometer of the behaviours, opinions and trends in the tourism characteristics of the Scottish adult population: www.56degreeinsight.com/scottish-tourism-index