The Importance and Contribution of Tourism To Scottish Economy

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION1

Background1

Rationale2

Target Audience2

Research Question2

Aims and Objectives2

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW4

Statistics4

Historic Economic Impact6

Tourism Motivation7

Tourist Typologies8

Tourist Attractions10

Sustainable tourism11

Steps for Sustainable Development13

Tourism Planning15

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY16

Research Design16

Data Type16

Field Work17

Data Sources18

Tourist Questionnaires18

Face To Face Interviews19

Telephone Interview19

Audio Recordings20

E-Mails20

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

Background

Scotland is a well-developed tourist country. The tourism sector has about 200,000 jobs, mainly services, with an average income of £ 4 billion per year. Tourists from the United Kingdom constitute the largest proportion of visitors from Scotland. in 2002 will be 18.5 million tourists from the UK to Scotland, a total of 64.5 million nights stayed and gave out £ 3.7 billion. In addition, 1.58 million visits will be from outside the United Kingdom counted, with 15 million overnight stays and spending of £ 806 million. In terms of foreign tourists who are United States, Scotland, with 24 percent of the most common, in Germany (9%), France (8%), Canada (7%) and Australia (6%).

Scotland is generally considered to be clean and relatively unspoiled travel destination, with picturesque scenery, a long and complex history, combined with thousands of historic sites and attractions, including prehistoric stone circles, megaliths and grave chambers, and various relics from the Bronze, Iron and Stone Age (Gunn, 1988). There are also many historic castles, buildings, battlefields, ruins and museums. Many people feel overwhelmed by the Scottish culture attracted. Although the season of the cities Edinburgh and Glasgow between April and October, they will be visited throughout the year and develop more and more cosmopolitan centers, which are increasingly seen as alternatives to the Scottish tourist landscape (Leiper, 1990:380). In addition, the national agency VisitScotland has a niche strategy used, which seeks in particular, Scotland's tourism strengths in golf and fishing as well as in Scottish cuisine expands. Another is gaining popularity and winning major reason for a visit to Scotland - especially for tourists from North America - the genealogy to explore family roots and ancestors (Glasson, Godfrey and Goodey, 1999). A study to determine the winning formula used to attract such a diversity of tourists from all over the world to Scotland, which in turn is important and contributes to the Scottish economy.

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