It's tourism in action

AN international conference on "activity tourism" is to be held in the Lothians.

Oatridge College in West Lothian will host the event, which will look at how the sector, which ranges from mountain biking and scuba diving to cookery courses and bird watching, can be developed in Scotland.

A team from the college has worked with partners in Scotland, Spain, Romania, Malta and the Netherlands to identify the extent and nature of activity tourism and delegates to the June 9 conference will get a taster of the project's final report, which is due to be published in September.