A look at the stories making headlines

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OUR FIRST BULLETIN – get involved!!!!

This is our first round-up bulletin, taking a look at some of the local stories and issues making headlines.

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Gleneagles is a high-end hotel known to most of us and they are hitting new heights with their latest accounts. Sales surpassed the £100m mark for the first time and ‘the books’ until end of March 2025 showed a profit of £10m, up from £4.3m the previous year.

That’s one impressive set of results, perhaps reflecting strength at the luxury end of the hospitality market.

Good news

There was further good news with Dunalastair Hotel coming out of administration and into the hands of near neighbours, Loch Rannoch Estate, which operates Loch Rannoch Hotel, Spa and Estate. The 5-Star, 32-bedroom hotel, will benefit from the spa facilities at its sister site while residents of both will enjoy wider food and drink choice.

In Pitlochry, it was another great Highland Games, despite parking issues, see and the Heartland Festival continues to spring surprises, with top acts being lined up for 2026. See.

PS: There is another headliner in the pipeline but we can’t say too much just yet – keep checking the site. Sssh for now. For beer fans (who is not a beer fan- ed?), things are sorted for next year and it is another feather in the cap for one Perthshire craft brewery, see.

The First Minister was in town recently, see and he is a known supporter of the local Town Hall being saved for the community, see.

Perthshire Tourist Tax breakthrough?

The whole issue of Tourist Taxes seems to be reverberating across Scotland. Thanks to you we managed to conduct our own Perthshire Reader Survey on the issue, which threw up some illuminating insights, see.

BUT, things may have changed, with updates emanating from Scottish Parliament this week, see.

We leave you with one FASCINATING FACT:

- Perth and Kinross has benefitted to the tune of £1.7m since the Scottish Cashback for Communities (proceeds of crime) scheme began. From that, nearly 30 000 young people in the region have been supported.

Source

Figures released this week.

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