Particular deliveries of Nessie face masks are set to be made to Prime Minister Boris Johnston and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon from the Highlands.
Drumnadrochit-based hospitality and catering agency Cobbs commissioned the specially-designed face coverings – that includes Loch Ness’s most elusive resident – as face masks grew to become obligatory in Scotland’s retailers earlier this month.
Since then, they’ve been snapped up with orders coming in from everywhere in the UK and different elements of the world along with gross sales in Cobbs retailers and cafés within the Highlands.
The corporate has now dispatched the masks – which purpose to advertise Highland tourism in addition to highlighting social distancing as a result of coronavirus pandemic – to the 2 political leaders.
“The primary member of the general public to identify a Nessie masks on both of them will get a Cobbs cake and so will Boris Johnson or Nicola Sturgeon.”
Cobbs director Fraser Campbell is now hoping to identify Nessie in both London or Edinburgh.
“We might be watching each TV interview to see who would be the first to put on a Nessie masks!” stated Mr Campbell who additionally urged the general public to maintain a lookout.
“The primary member of the general public to identify a Nessie masks on both of them will get a Cobbs cake and so will Boris Johnson or Nicola Sturgeon.”
The preliminary consignment of 250 masks shortly offered out and since then virtually 1000 have been offered with an additional 1000 on account of be delivered to Cobbs subsequent week.
“Folks appear to love them,” Mr Campbell stated.
“Within the instances we live in, it’s a wee little bit of enjoyable about Nessie socially distancing for 200 million years.”
In addition to Scotland and different elements of the UK, on-line orders are additionally coming in from as far-off because the USA, China and France.
“The Chinese language love Scotland, the Highlands and Nessie,” Mr Campbell stated.
“We’re lacking out guests from abroad however sit up for welcoming them again subsequent yr.”
The corporate can be hoping to take supply subsequent week of masks that includes 40 completely different clans plus tartan designs.
Within the meantime, it’s reopening rooms at three of its accommodations tomorrow. They’re the Loch Ness Clansman Resort, Loch Ness Nation Home Resort and Loch Ness Lodge
It follows the re-opening of its Loch Ness Drumnadrochit Resort on July 15.
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