Culture and leisure services and the access to them are key drivers which offer healthier lifestyles, according to a leading academic who believes lockdown weight gain is one of the biggest health issues coming out of the pandemic. Professor Naveed Sattar, of University of Glasgow s Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, said city services including museums and leisure facilities are crucial to allowing people to be active and widen their horizons. His comments come at a time when Glasgow Life, the arms-length council organisation which runs the services, lost £38m due to the pandemic and its estimated income for 2020/21 is £6.4million. An agreed council funding deal will see Glasgow Life receive a guaranteed £100m for the next four years to open 90 out of its 171 venues. Without further funding, they say they cannot reopen any more venues. Around 500 jobs will go at the organisation over a five year period.
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IT is difficult to believe now, but less than a year and a half ago there was concern that Glasgow had too many hotels. As a seemingly never-ending procession of new builds were proposed, adding to the large stock of rooms already in circulation, there was worry in some quarters that the city had so many hotels it was becoming increasingly difficult for operators to compete. The picture was crystallised by Nicola Taylor, the chief executive of Chardon Hotels, whose family owns six Holiday Inn hotels across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth and Dunfermline. Ms Taylor said she had “never seen such over-supply”, declaring at the time that “it makes for a future that can only be described as challenging.”