He said the prospect of cuts was spurring long-delayed collaboration and drawing in high-level business leadership to help raise the city’s national international profile.
Alan Johnston, the new non-executive chairman of Edinburgh’s public-private marketing body Destination Edinburgh Marketing Alliance (DEMA), has said that the recession is having a “beneficial side-effect” for the capital.
He said the prospect of cuts was spurring long-delayed collaboration and drawing in high-level business leadership to help raise the city’s national international profile.