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Last week the Scottish Government announced the relaxation of restrictions, with the "stay at home" order lifted on Friday 2nd April and replaced with "stay local", whereby everyone is asked to remain within their local authority boundaries except[...]

The Scottish Government recently extended the Non-Domestic Rates relief for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses for 12 months to help relieve pressure caused by the pandemic. The legislation was enacted on 18 March 2021 and will come into effect from 1 April 2021.[...]

Today (24th March), ASVA received confirmation from the Scottish Government that 2 metre physical distancing restrictions will be in place for our sector when re-opening commences on 26th April, for at least the short term. ASVA has been [...]

Our friends at the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) have shared with ASVA their latest wave of public sentiment research they commissioned with Steve Mills of Decision House. This is the 7th wave of results and follows [...]

Last month, ASVA and the Moffat Centre asked all Scottish attractions to complete a survey to help us ascertain the industry’s preparedness for re-opening, the factors that need to be considered which will influence decision making about re-opening, the ongoing impacts of [...]

As part her announcement on 16th March, the First Minister confirmed that the last four-weekly Strategic Framework Business Fund (SFBF) Temporary Closures Grant payment of up to £3,000 will be paid on Monday 22 March.After this, one off re-start grants of up to [...]

Yesterday (16th March), in a statement to the Scottish Parliament, the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, set out an indicative timetable for the re-opening of parts of the economy over the next two months. There were a number of points made that are [...]

Today (3rd March),  ASVA CEO, Gordon Morrison and the Board of Directors were pleased to host the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy & Tourism, Fergus Ewing, for a wide-ranging discussion about the current challenges being faced by businesses in and [...]

Today (3rd March), the Chancellor the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, presented the 2021 UK Budget to Parliament. In his announcement, Mr Sunak set out a £65 billion three point plan to provide support for jobs and businesses as the UK looks to recover from the effects [...]

Following the Supreme Court test case on a range of business Interruption insurance policies, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), have today (3rd March) published [...]