Bringing It All Back Home; Philip Riddle: After 25 Years Travelling the Globe, He Was in the Perfect Position to Sort Out Scottish Tourism, Finds Mark Smith
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PHILIP Riddle remembers the croak of bullfrogs and the sound of hippos at the watering hole as he gazed up at the star-speckled black bowl of the Namibian night sky, so intense it was like looking at the sun from inside a pin cushion.
The chief executive of VisitScotland, a month shy of his third year in a job that has been described as a "poisoned chalice", also recalls battling his way through the commuter crush of the Paris rush hour from his home in St-Germain-en-Laye.See the full content of this document
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Bringing It All Back Home; Philip Riddle: After 25 Years Travelling the Globe, He Was in the Perfect Position to Sort Out Scottish Tourism, Finds Mark Smith
And he remembers haggling for goods in a thronging Thailand market - or maybe it was Brunei, or Malaysia, or Mauritius, or Nigeria, or Japan, or the Seychelles?
Riddle, 53, a former executive with Shell and an inveterate and intrepid traveller, has been around the world - which is just as well for the man charged with pulli...See the full content of this document
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