Tourism minister Richard Lochhead confirmed the \u00a39.25m figure nine months after an official announcement that the first stage had been secured for the city.<\/p>\n
“This funding will help Scotland realise the full potential of the social and economic benefits the Tour de France will bring to our country, as well as ensure that the event is delivered safely, securely and successfully,” he said in response to a question at Holyrood.<\/p>\n
Mr Lochhead said the monies would also go towards improving health by increasing cycling participation and supporting the Scottish government’s wider active travel commitments. <\/p>\n
He added: “Hosting the Grand D\u00e9part for the 2027 Tour de France will enhance Scotland’s already stellar reputation as an international events destination, and will allow us to further showcase our country on the world stage, with the event being broadcast in 190 countries, with around 150m viewers in Europe alone.”<\/p>\n
The men’s and women’s Tour de France will both begin in Britain in 2027 – with details of the start location for the women’s event still to be announced.<\/p>\n
The men’s version of the Tour – which was won this year by Slovenian Tadej Pogacar – has been partly staged in Britain four times before, in 1974, 1994, 2007 and 2014.<\/p>\n
This will be the first time both men’s and women’s events have come to the same nation outside France in the same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tourism minister Richard Lochhead confirmed the \u00a39.25m figure nine months after an official announcement that the first stage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-320844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}