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Acknowledgements

This title is part of the AccessFest series, a collaboration between
Lonely Planet and UMOJA (www.umoja.in) to promote UK festival
destinations to the more than 11 million disabled people living in
Great Britain today, 70,000 of whom visit festivals in the UK annu-
ally. UMOJA is an online travel portal providing people with disabil-
ities with the detailed and dependable accessibility-related infor-
mation they need to travel with comfort and confidence. UMOJA
has performed access audits on all hotels featured in this guide as
well as more than 100 other hotels in both the UK and India.
We gratefully acknowledge permission to use the access in-
formation for all venues reviewed in this guide provided by Euan’s
Guide (www.euansguide.com). We also gratefully acknowledge
permission to reproduce images provided by VisitScotland (www.
visitscotland.com), Edinburgh International Festival (www.eif.
co.uk) Edinburgh International Book Festival (www.edbookfest.
co.uk) and the Edinburgh Military Tattoo (www.edintattoo.co.uk).
Thanks to Brendan Dempsey, Jaci Langford and Kirsten Raw-
lings (Lonely Planet); Ben Musgrave and Yeshwant Rao Holkar
(UMOJA); Antonia Lee-Bapty (Euan’s Guide); Daniel Barr, Shee-
na Macrea, Chris McCoy and Grant Paterson (VisitScotland);
Ciara McCafferty and Liz Wallace (Edinburgh International Festi-
val); Catherine Mundell (Edinburgh International Book Festival);
and Oonagh White (Edinburgh Military Tattoo).

City Sightseeing Bus, Grassmarket / © VisitScotland/Paul Tomkins