Scottish agri-tourism businesses will step out onto a global stage later this month, when learnings from the Scottish Enterprise Agritourism Monitor Farm programme will be shared with an international audience at the World Agritourism Conference in Vermont, USA.

Agritourism monitor farmer Kay Wilson, along with programme facilitator Caroline Millar, will speak at the conference about the success of the project, in front of over five hundred delegates from forty countries.

Kay and her family farm a 1500-hectare tenanted hill farm at Shemore and Shantron Farms, near Luss, producing Scotch lamb and Scotch beef. The family celebrates 50 years in agritourism this year – but through the monitor farm programme, has taken their business to a new level with hand-built luxury accommodation and 'farmer for the day' experiences under the Lennox of Lomond brand.

Kay and Caroline will be joined by five other Scottish delegates, who will benefit from networking with agritourism experts, bringing home knowledge to share at the upcoming Scottish Agritourism national conference in Perth in December. As well as attending three days of the conference, the group will visit around twenty farms over four days before the event.

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Ms Millar said: “Scotland is very much viewed by the international agritourism community as leading innovation in the sector. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase the knowledge transfer and peer to peer learning from the agritourism monitor farm programme that has helped support so many farming and crofting businesses to grow agritourism in recent years.

"We are extremely grateful to Royal Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland and Scottish Enterprise who both made a contribution to support our attendance at the event. We have a full programme of farm tours and conference sessions planned and we look forward to sharing what we learn with others on our return.”

RHASS chairman Jim Warnock added: “RHASS is thrilled to support the Scottish team of agritourism pioneers who are championing the growth of this important diversification opportunity here in Scotland. The team attending is a strong representation of the sector which is on track to become a major economic driver in the rural sector.”