Douglas definitely looks old enough to have clocked up over 20 years
experience of the tourism and leisure industries.
After spells in youth training, visitor attraction marketing and PR consultancy, he joined the Scottish
Area Tourist Board network in 1987 and went on to hold senior marketing and management positions in Banff & Buchan, Dumfries
& Galloway, Greater Glasgow & Clyde Valley, Edinburgh & Lothians and Perthshire Tourist Boards.
He has initiated and been involved in numerous national and international leisure and business tourism
marketing campaigns and has led the development of many successful tourism initiatives with both public and private sector
partners.
Douglas is a Director of Perthshire Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Board of Management of Perth
College.
In his spare time Douglas is an enthusiastic collector of reggae music and a keen supporter of Stranraer
Football Club.