Venue
The conference takes place in Aviemore, at the MacDonald Aviemore Resort Conference Centre, in Scotland’s Cairngorm National Park, and includes keynote speeches, presentations and a conference céilidh. This party, lunches and coffee / tea are all included in the conference fee (TBA).
Aviemore is Cairngorm's main town and has direct rail links to all the major cities of Scotland (and England), and through these, regular domestic flights into Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Aviemore has a number of conference hotels along with reasonably priced bed & breakfasts.
Aberdeen, the oil capital of the United Kingdom, has direct scheduled flights from New York as well as links to the major hubs of London Heathrow and Amsterdam. The drive from Central Scotland to Aviemore is also one of the most spectacular in the UK as it follows, at times; General Wade’s military roads set up to control the Jacobite insurgency of the early 18th Century.
The Jacobites were finally defeated in 1745 at the Battle of Culloden, which is less than 30 miles from Aviemore. Britain's finest Georgian fort, Fort George (image right), was built in 1748 and is only a few miles from Culloden Moor. It is still used by the British Army but is open to the public. Aviemore gives us access to all these military landscapes, along with Morayshire’s Whisky Distilleries and some of the finest golf courses in the world. Loch Ness is nearby, with its famous ‘monster’ and a longer trip will take us to the Moine Thrust at Knockan Crags.
