Cast iron proof (x3!) that ‘good business does good’ 2024: 🌳 Certified B Corporation™ - FIRST UK exclusive visitor attraction⏰ Living Hours Employer - FIRST Scottish tourism business📄 Fair Tax Accreditation🎉 Silver Thistle Award Recipient 2024Since 2014, Kat has led Mercat Tours and Mercat Tours International to award and acclaim and into Mercat Edinburgh’s record-breaking 39th year. With a dedicated team, she has established Mercat Tours as market leader in quality, expert-led storytelling experiences of Scotland’s capital, WWI and WWII battlefields of Europe. Mercat Tours is led by the desire to look after people, building community before profit. The ground-breaking new project, ‘Our Stories, Your City’, launched in 2022 reconnects the disconnected vulnerable communities of Edinburgh with their city through storytelling, paid for by visitors’ donations and supporting Living Wage jobs, demonstrating tourism as a force for good.Kat firmly believes tourism is the most inclusive and inspiring sector in which to develop a career. It holds the power to create diverse, dynamic teams that attract passionate people to work and equally supports communities to thrive. ‘Tourism is Everyone’s Business – Where Everyone has a Place’.She is a champion of Living Wage and Fair Work ideals and invests time working with SDS, DYW and schools to connect young people with their city and aspire to careers in tourism.Kat continues to guide WWI Battlefield tours in Europe to keep in touch with young people and because of her own passion for history and storytelling.