New festival could help boost seasonal tourism
A new winter festival in Angus is encouraging visitors to explore the great outdoors, in a push to extend the traditional visitor season in the region.
The Angus Outdoor Adventure Winter Festival starts tomorrow Friday 8 November, and runs until Sunday 17 November.
It will highlight the range of activities the region offers during the winter months. Everything from hiking to mountain biking, fly fishing to refreshing pond dooks.
The festival aligns with the national sustainable tourism strategy. It focuses on encouraging the regional and seasonal spread of visitors, extending the benefits of tourism across the year.
The region’s great outdoors is already popular with visitors to the area. Findings from our recent Scotland Visitor Survey reveal that around three quarters of visitors to Angus mentioned the scenery and landscape as a reason for planning their trip to Scotland. Almost a third of visitors cited outdoor activities.
The festival is organised by Angus Tourism Cooperative, and supported by Visit Angus. It’s also supported by Angus Rural Partnership with funding from the Scottish Government’s Rural Community-Led Local Development Fund 2024-2025, which is part of the Scottish Rural Development Programme.
The full Visitor Survey 2023 can be found on VisitScotland.org.