Alan Young is the Editor at The Scotsman. He specializes in hospitality and leisure, particularly focusing on hospitality technology, energy, and mining. His insights and expertise have been featured in notable publications such as Yahoo Sports UK, Hospitality Net, and PhocusWire.
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Alan Young's coverage revolves around government and politics, with a significant focus on local news. This suggests that he is likely to be most responsive to pitches related to local political developments, breaking news stories, or evolving topics within the region he covers.
Given his extensive coverage of evolving stories and breaking news, consider pitching him with insights into ongoing political events or exclusive information about current affairs in the specific geographic area he focuses on.
While Alan does cover other topics such as travel and hospitality technology, crime, deaths, football, weather-related incidents among others; these are covered less frequently compared to government and politics. Therefore when reaching out it’s best to keep this in mind by tailoring pitches accordingly.
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By: Alan Young
AI guest journey agents and AR staff tools are closing the gap between the 68% of guests willing to pay more for personalized stays and the 56% of hotels lacking technology to deliver it.
By: Alan Young
A five-part series installment outlines three AI agent use cases for hotel leaders: automated performance briefings, dynamic staff onboarding, and real-time sustainability cost tracking.
By: Alan Young
A structured five-phase framework helps hotels assess data infrastructure, run shadow-mode pilots, and scale AI without overwhelming staff or wasting budget on simultaneous deployments.
Supporting the oil and gas industry is not contrary to an ambition of a renewables future
For too long Edinburgh, and Scotland, has assumed that the festivals will always be there
Andy Burnham is entirely right to reaffirm the UK’s 100 per cent support for Ukraine.
Andy Burnham is entirely right to reaffirm the UK’s 100 per cent support for Ukraine.
Justice delayed is justice denied, and a lengthy court process placing the lives of victims and accused on hold is in no-one’s interest
By: Alan Young
Scotland’s Patient Safety Commissioner Karen Titchener suggested some health boards appear more focused on reputation management than patient safety.
Scotland's Patient Safety Commissioner Karen Titchener suggested some health boards appear more focused on reputation management than patient safety.
