City Promotion | Dundee City Council

The City Promotion team brings together a range of functions which all have an important role in how the city is perceived. The city’s reputation as a place to live, work, invest and visit is important in attracting new investment and jobs within the city as well as creating a sense of place.

The functional areas covered by our team include:-

Dundee – One City, Many Discoveries Marketing Campaign
Leisure Tourism
Business Events
City Centre Management
City Events

Dundee - One City, Many Discoveries

This is the city’s place branding activity.

The campaign promotes the city via a PR led campaign and runs the city’s branded portal www.dundee.com

It seeks to ensure the profile of Dundee remains high amongst its key audiences

A citywide brand group meets to define key messages and activities

Contact:

Jennifer Caswell,
Campaign Manager
E: jennifer.caswell@dundeecity.gov.uk
T: 01382 434252

Leisure Tourism

The council has many touch points with leisure visitors to the city and are focussed on growing the numbers of visitors coming to Dundee, especially overnight stays. We are one of the stakeholders responsible for delivering on the City’s Tourism Strategy. We commission and collect tourism data to allow us to measure the outputs of the sector in terms of employment and economic impact.

We facilitate Dundee Tourism Action group (DTAG) as well as regular forums and events bringing the tourism and hospitality sectors together. We have created closed facebook pages and a tourism portal for business to business information available at www.d-tag.co.uk.

We are also involved in the Tay Cities Regional Tourism Strategy focusing on the 3 connector themes: Culture & Creative; Food & Drink and Outdoor Aventure.

Contact:

Gaynor Sullivan
Tourism Lead Officer
E: gaynor.sullivan@dundeecity.gov.uk
T: 01382 434542

Business Events

Dundee & Angus Convention Bureau work with hospitality/industry partners and leading institutes to advance social and economic progress for Scotland and the region of Dundee, Angus, Fife and Perthshire through the platform of business events. Collaborating with great minds from all academic institutions across the region in bringing national and international academic and professional association conferences to Dundee City and Region.

Resulting in:

Advancing research centred around Scotland’s growth sectors
Fostering international trade and intellectual engagement
Wider economic benefits in addition to the bed night and direct delegate spend
Influencing policies and actions and help sectors leapfrog and lead in a global community
Attracting investment and people, helps the economy grow as a worldwide centre of excellence in key economic sectors

This is achieved by supporting the Pathfinders Programme to attract progressive business events which showcase our pioneering, creative and innovative thinking and our dynamic environment. Pathfinders, encourages leading professionals to be part of a new movement, forging new links, driving new pathways and nurturing the future for academic, social and economic success through the platform of business events.

Click here for more information on Pathfinders

Click here for more on support for Pathfinders

Contact:

Karen Tocher
Business Tourism Lead Officer
E: karen.tocher@dundeecity.gov.uk
T: 01382 434318

City Centre Management

City Centre Management work closely with city centre stakeholders to:

improve city centre facilities
promote development of city centre retailing
attract businesses and visitors
promote a safe, crime free shopping and leisure environment

DD One

City Centre Management is an executive member of DD One, a partnership which works to develop the economic potential of Dundee City Centre.

DD One is a private sector-led group whose agreed objective is to encourage representatives of both the private and public sectors to act together to develop the economic potential of Dundee City Centre.

City Centre Ambassadors

Undertake high profile patrols within the city centre, providing a service to both the City Council and the public, including tourists, visitors and those socially deprived, within the city centre.

Contact:

Sarah Craig
City Centre Manager
E: sarah.craig@dundeecity.gov.uk
T: 01382 434548

Events in Dundee

The Events Team work towards making Dundee a vibrant and exciting place to live, work and study by supporting a range of events across the City.

The Events Team are responsible for delivering Dundee City Council events including Easter Fun Day, Dundee Summer Streets Festival, Fireworks displays and Christmas Light Nights. We also work closely with external event organisers to support and advise them to deliver events in Dundee's parks and public spaces like music events, races and community gala days.

Our focus as a city for events and festivals are those events which:

have economic benefits to the city by attracting visitors, increasing overnight stays or having employment benefits
promote the city, enhance Dundee’s visibility and raise our profile as a vibrant, contemporary international city
are distinctive to Dundee by using the landscape, history, heritage or people of Dundee to make them unique
are available to, and involve, members of the public in Dundee, or which inspire and involve local communities

For more information on event planning in the City, please contact us at cityevents@dundeecity.gov.uk