All staff redundant as Scottish tour company in liquidation
Gordon Dewar also highlighted the importance of the jobs provided by the airport and other employers on the 'campus', in an exclusive interview with The Herald. He observed this employment totalled nearly 8,000, including around 1,000 people employed directly by the airport.
And Mr Dewar declared: 'It is obvious that airports are profoundly important for local economies, particularly island economies such as ours. I am a geographer by background. I am a transport operator my whole career.'
He also underlined the attractiveness of Edinburgh as a destination for overseas visitors. And he flagged the lift Edinburgh Airport provided to the tourism sector, and vice-versa.
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Rangers deal underlines appeal of Scottish football in US
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It would be wide of the mark to describe them as 'overpaid, oversexed, and over here', as American GIs were infamously dismissed during their time in Britain during the Second World War. But the Americans are certainly over here.
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