Dumfries is to host the Robert Burns World Federation annual conference later this year.
The gathering – which includes the annual meeting – is being held in the Cairndale Hotel from September 9 to 11 and it is being hailed as “a major cultural and economic coup for Dumfries and Galloway” with more than 100 residential delegates coming from around the UK.
Another 40 members are coming from Canada, the USA and Australia.
