£7.4 million funding for two key Kintyre hotels
Highlands and Islands Enterprise has today announced that a total of £7.4 million is set to be invested in redeveloping two Argyll hotels to provide high quality accommodation and facilities.They...
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Machrihanish Dunes’ masterclass in first class inclusive marketing
The Autumn issue of Links, the international magazine for golfers, features the new Machrihanish Dunes golf course in Kintyre as its cover story.This entire piece – by Anthony Pioppi – powerfully...
View ArticleGood news for Kintyre: accolades for Machrihanish Dunes Golf Course
Two top USA-based golf publications have honoured the Machrihanish Dunes Golf Course in Kintyre. It has been:listed by Links magaazine as one of the best new courses of 2009;included by Golfweek at...
View ArticleMachrihanish Dunes taking pre-booking for restored Royal and Ugadale Hotels
The Machrihanish Dunes operation in Kintyre, led by the imaginative entrepreneur, Brian Keating with American multi-billionaire, David Southworth, is announcing details of the major restorations of its...
View ArticleGift offers from Machrihanish Dunes village
You could call this presents for the golfer who hasn’t quite got enough or presents for everyone seeking luxurious sanctuary.Machrihanish Dunes – the world top-100 golf course in Kintyre, is offering...
View ArticleIs Oban’s Susie Stoddart (Wolff) on the brink of F1?
Oban-born Susie Stoddart – now Susie Wolff since, in late 2011, she married Toto Wolff, an investor in Formula One – is playing her cards close in a major feature in today Herald magazine.One of the...
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Ugadale Hotel reopens to the call of The Herd’s Horn
Yesterday, Saturday 25th February, saw day long celebrations to launch the once and now again fabulous Ugadale Hotel in the beachside village of Machrihanish on the west Mull of Kintyre.His Grace the...
View ArticleMachrihanish Dunes offers fabulous ‘Stay and Play’ for groups and societies
Groups of golfing enthusiasts will be teeing up for Kintyre at the news coming out of the Machrihanish Dunes group.A cluster of local high-end sporting, accommodation and transport businesses have got...
View ArticleRestituted Kintyre Club ready to make its first donations
If you or someone you know attended Campbeltown Grammar School and has completed a minimum three year university degree course, you and/or they are eligible to apply to The Kintyre Club for a cash gift...
View ArticleWitty and clever promotion from Machrihanish Dunes
The latest promotional news from the Machrihanish Dunes team is clever, fun, contextualised, utterly memorable and is a major prompt for marketing Campbeltown.Headlined ‘Choice Kintyre Holiday’, the...
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For Argyll’s Christmas nominations
[Completed 26th December] This has been some year – of enterprise, surprise, achievement, investment, determination and a growing focus on the activity and marine tourism that plays so strongly to...
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For Argyll end of year nominations 2012: a baker’s dozen
Farewell of the year, public service – Clyde Coastguard: We’re starting with this one because it affects Argyll and the rest of a massive sea area of Scotland’s west coast, from the Mull of Galloway,...
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Ayrshire Cattle Society of GB and Ireland brings 2013 Conference to Campbeltown
The Ayrshire Cattle Society of Great Britain & Ireland is bringing its 2013 Conference to Campbeltown from 16th to 18th May.It is clear from the programme that a major part of the national...
View ArticleMachrihanish Dunes Award: ‘Our investment was in the area as a whole, with...
The Village at Machrihanish Dunes has announced that it has won the Scotland Enterprise Award at the Countryside Alliance Awards held at Scottish Parliament at Holyrood. The Enterprise Award is awarded...
View Article11 Argyll finalists in Central South West region 2013 Scottish Thistle...
[Updated 16th May] Eleven of thirty two of the Regional Finalists for Central South West in the 2013 Scottish Thistle Awards for tourism are in Argyll.The eleven are headed by our hard working and...
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The Campbeltown Picture House Centenary
With the centenary of Campbeltown’s joyful little waterfront Picture House coming up, preparations for an appropriate celebration began shortly after the turn of the year, 2013.Feverish activity in the...
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Kintyre Club awards to Kintyre good causes
The recipients of the latest Kintyre Club awards yesterday, 27th July 2013, some staff organising the event and Director, Iona Barr, who presented the cheques, had fun in a group photograph on the...
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Investment in people and place: the Kintyre Club and the Village at Mach Dunes
Presentations of one kind of investment in Kintyre communities took place yesterday afternoon, 2th July, at the Ugadale Hotel in Machrihanish, part of Southworth Developments’ breathtakingly vast...
View ArticleKintyre Autumn Pairs Classic at Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club
The Kintyre Autumn Pairs Classic takes place on Saturday 12th October 2013, hosted by the Village at Machrihanish Dunes Golf ClubThe event is open to Ladies’ pairs, Mens’ pairs and Mixed pairs.It’s a...
View ArticleSerious sales and marketing opportunity for Argyll’s high-end tourism sector
An opportunity – and a challenge - has just emerged for Argyll’s high-end visitor experience and accommodation market.It will be interesting to see who gets moving to prepare and launch the right...
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