President Gordon Burgess welcomed 14 other members, and organiser Douglas Dow announced that Saturday's can collection at Helensburgh Co-op in Sinclair Street raised the excellent total of £628.80 and three Euros for the club's youth services. Thanks were expressed to him and all who helped in the collection.
John McCormick gave an intersting talk on the history of tourism since it first began to be organised in 1758, and at first participants were confined to the very rich. In 1872 Thomas Cook started arranging temperance holidays, and they really took off when they ceased to be temperance! By 1888 people were going on holiday all over the world.
He said that today the Chinese are the biggest worldwide tourists, while France is the world's most visited country. The current biggest travel market in the world is for Chinese weddings — something VisitScotland is seeking to exploit. Lesley Kennedy proposed the vote of thanks.
The weekly raffle for a whisky miniature was won by the president.