MacDonald Highland Resorts (MAHR) in Aviemore, Scotland, is hosting the Institute of Animal Technology (IAT) Congress 2008, from 4th-6th March, finishing with the Congress Dinner and Dance Thursday evening. Vivisectors from the UK and abroad will be there. Planned presentations include; ‘Success in the face of protest’ by HLS. (So it looks like we’re invited to speak!). Also, delegates from: Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Imperial College London, etc.

MacDonald Higland Resorts are nestled within the Cairngorms National Park; there are four hotels within the resort - the luxurious 4 star Macdonald Highlands Hotel, the Academy Hotel and the newly acquired Macdonald Four Seasons and Aviemore Inn

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

This hotel company has a right to know about the cruelty inflicted by members of IAT and what’s going on inside HLS by members of IAT, which is where you come in...

1 - Contact MacDonald Aviemore Highland Resorts urgently and tell them you will boycott them whilst they support animal cruelty. Let them know about IAT and Huntingdon’s appalling track record for animal cruelty!
2 - Organise leafleting, or peaceful demo's at your local MacDonald hotel and at the Congress itself. They have around 70 other sites in the UK and abroad.

For your nearest MacDonald Hotel see:
 http://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/popup/locationmap.htm
To order leaflets contact  info@shac.net

Remember to please keep all correspondence informative and polite at all times.

SAMPLE LETTER
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To Whom It May Concern

I am writing to you regarding your business relationship with Institute of
Animal Technology (IAT) and HLS. It has come to my attention that your hotel group is hosting the IAT’s UK congress in March 2008. Some of the delegates are from HLS, the most exposed animal testing laboratory in the world.

The IAT is the body representing thousands of UK animal technicians who work in laboratories, inflicting suffering and killing the animals supposedly in their ‘care’. If this conference goes ahead, I will henceforth boycott all MacDonald hotels and resorts, and will encourage others to do the same. Numerous undercover investigations have revealed animal technicians grossly abusing animals in many different labs across the world, the most well-known instance of which is the footage obtained at Huntingdon Life Sciences of workers punching beagle puppies in the face.

Steve Owen, a key employee of Huntingdon Life Sciences, was instrumental in organising the conference in 2003 in Ireland and many HLS employees are members of the IAT. The IAT tried to hoodwink the CityWest Hotel in Dublin by not disclosing the nature of their organisation. You may not be aware that HLS is the world’s most exposed animal testing laboratory. They have repeatedly been caught out on film committing acts of cruelty both in the US and the UK. They have been caught punching beagle puppies, and cutting open live primates without painkillers. They have been exposed for shoddy work, and falsified data. During one study on wild caught baboons, HLS broke the law 520 times but were never prosecuted.

In late 2007, a senior scientist from HLS in the USA has filed a lawsuit after he claims he was being pressured into falsifying data. This is a sham of a company with a poor reputation and I should not think you would like to be associated with this, or members of the IAT who work there.

I don't expect you to take my word for it but you can see the cruelty yourself, as shown on national TV;  http://www.shac.net/HLS/exposed.html. Anyone who goes
to work to inflict suffering on animals and kill them in pointless,
unscientific experiments should not be welcome at MacDonald Hotels to make a compassionate decision to cancel this congress.”

Thank you for your time, and I do hope that you will be reconsidering your position and no longer supporting this cruelty.

[Your name here]

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Write to:
(Emails are in blocks of 20 at the end of this alert)

Macdonald Aviemore Highland Resort Ltd
Central Reservations
Aviemore, Inverness-shire
PH22 1PN Scotland


Reservations - Tel: 0844 879 9152 and 08451 255455
 info@aviemorehighlandresort.com
 reservations@aviemorehighlandresort.com
 sales@aviemorehighlandresort.com
 golf@aviemorehighlandresort.com
 ann.easton@aviemorehighlandresort.com
www.aviemorehighlandresort.com

Sales & Events Team - Tel: 01479 815195
 general@aviemorehighlandresort.com
 events@aviemorehighlandresort.com

Conference Direct Team (organising the conference)
Tel: 0845 604 4242
 conference@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 meeting@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 http://aviemorehighlandshotel.venue-guide.com

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MacDonald Hotels & Resorts Limited
PO Box 6,
Central Admin Building,
MacDonald Resorts Limited,
Aviemore
Inverness-shire
PH22 1YB
Tel: 0845 6011734 or 01479 811810
E-mail:  resort.reservations@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
www.macdonaldresorts.com

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MacDonald Hotels

 info@macdonaldhotels.co.uk
www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk

Donald MacDonald – Executive Chairman
David Guile - Deputy Chief Executive
Katie Wood - Communications Director
Justine Ford – Marketing Director


Central Reservations
UK: 0844 879 9000
USA: (Toll free) 1 888 892 0038
Germany, Austria & Switzerland: +49 (0) 69 97503420
 enquiries@macdonald-hotels.co.uk

Customer Services

The Customer Service Manager.
The Bobsleigh, Hempstead Road,
Bovingdon, Hertfordshire. HP3 0DS.
Tel: 0845 120 4991
 customer.services@macdonald-hotels.co.uk

Customer Service - Germany, Austria & Switzerland
Tel: +49 (0) 69 97503420
E-mail:  krauthahn@hotellerie-impulse.de

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Misc. MacDonald Hotel emails:

 David.Guile@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 lynn.hunter@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 marketing@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 fraser.cromarty@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 sally.everton@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 sally.osborne@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 general.rusacks@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 cardrona@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 paul.ashton@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 events.lymm@macdonalds-hotels.co.uk
 events@wessexmacdonald-hotels.co.uk
 roxburghe@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 botleypark@macdonaldhotels.co.uk
 holyrood@macdonlad-hotels.co.uk
 pittodrie@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 info@botleypark.macdonaldhotels.co.uk
 general.stpauls@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 southgate@macdonaldhotels.co.uk
 general.cardrona@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 savillcourt@macdonaldhotels.co.uk
 loch_rannoch@macdonaldhotels.co.uk
 salesberystede@macdonaldhotels.co.uk
 linsay.mckeown@macdonald-hotels.co.uk


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MacDonald resorts - Resale
Tel: 01479 811691
 resales@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
www.macdonaldresales.com

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MacDonalds Options Resorts
 info@optionsbymacdonald.com
 sivspain@optionsbymacdonald.com
 sivuk@optionsbymacdonald.com
 rentals@optionsbymacdonald.com
www.optionsbymacdonald.com

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MacDonald Hotels – Careers
 recruitment@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
 hr@macdonald-hotels.co.uk
www.macdonald-careers.co.uk

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MacDonalds Hotel's public relations firms:

3x1 Public Relations
11 Fitzroy Place, Glasgow. G3 7RW
Tel: 0141 221 0707
 info@3x1.com
Eve Robertson:  erobertson@3x1.com
Cameron Grant:  jacgrant@3x1.com
Julie McGarvey:  jmcgarvey@3x1.com
 rnisbet@3x1.com
 jquinn@3x1.com
 dbyers@3x1.com
 ddonne@3x1.com
www.3x1.com


Magnetic Public Relations
12 – 50 Kingsgate Road
Kingston, Surrey
KT2 5AA
Tel: 0208 547 4006
 info@magnaticpr.co.uk
 sarah@magnaticpr.co.uk
 madeleine@magnaticpr.co.uk
 donna@magnaticpr.co.uk



Institute of Animal Technology (IAT)
5 South Parade
Summertown
Oxford
OX2 7JL
 info@iat.org.uk
www.iat.org.uk

IAT Chairman:  chairman@iat.org.uk, Hon. Secretary:  secretary@iat.org.uk
Hon. Treasurer:  treasurer@iat.org.uk, Membership Secretary:
 membership@iat.org.uk
Animal Welfare Officer:  welfare@iat.org.uk, Bulletin Editor:
 bulletin@iat.org.uk
Animal Technology & Welfare Editor:  atw@iat.org.uk
Board of Education Policy Chairman:  education@iat.org.uk
Congress Committee Chairman:  congress@iat.org.uk, Branch Liaison Officer:
 branchofficer@iat.org.uk,
EFAT Representative:  efat@iat.org.uk, Advertising Manager:
 advertising@iat.org.uk,
Website Coordinator:  website@iat.org.uk

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Emails in this alert (in blocks of 20)

 info@aviemorehighlandresort.com,  reservations@aviemorehighlandresort.com,  sales@aviemorehighlandresort.com,  golf@aviemorehighlandresort.com,  ann.easton@aviemorehighlandresort.com,  general@aviemorehighlandresort.com,  events@aviemorehighlandresort.com,  conference@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  meeting@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  resort.reservations@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  info@macdonaldhotels.co.uk,  enquiries@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  customer.services@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  krauthahn@hotellerie-impulse.de,  David.Guile@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  lynn.hunter@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  marketing@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  fraser.cromarty@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  sally.everton@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  sally.osborne@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,

 general.rusacks@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  cardrona@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  paul.ashton@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  events.lymm@macdonalds-hotels.co.uk,  events@wessexmacdonald-hotels.co.uk,  roxburghe@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  botleypark@macdonaldhotels.co.uk,  holyrood@macdonlad-hotels.co.uk,  pittodrie@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  info@botleypark.macdonaldhotels.co.uk,  general.stpauls@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  southgate@macdonaldhotels.co.uk,  general.cardrona@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  savillcourt@macdonaldhotels.co.uk,  loch_rannoch@macdonaldhotels.co.uk,  alesberystede@macdonaldhotels.co.uk,  linsay.mckeown@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  resales@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  info@optionsbymacdonald.com,  sivspain@optionsbymacdonald.com,


 sivuk@optionsbymacdonald.com,  rentals@optionsbymacdonald.com,  recruitment@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  hr@macdonald-hotels.co.uk,  erobertson@3x1.com,  jacgrant@3x1.com,  jmcgarvey@3x1.com,  rnisbet@3x1.com,  jquinn@3x1.com,  dbyers@3x1.com,  ddonne@3x1.com,  info@magnaticpr.co.uk,  sarah@magnaticpr.co.uk,  madeleine@magnaticpr.co.uk,  donna@magnaticpr.co.uk,

IAT:

 info@iat.org.uk,  chairman@iat.org.uk,  secretary@iat.org.uk,  treasurer@iat.org.uk,  membership@iat.org.uk,  welfare@iat.org.uk,  bulletin@iat.org.uk,  atw@iat.org.uk,  education@iat.org.uk,  congress@iat.org.uk,  branchofficer@iat.org.uk,  efat@iat.org.uk,  advertising@iat.org.uk,  website@iat.org.uk,