Highlands and Islands tourism statistics
Date: 17 May 2008
Author: taylor
Last updated: 08/04/2008 11:48:13
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Highlands and Islands tourism:
- accounts for a sizeable eight per cent chunk of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
- generates 24,000 jobs across a wide range of businesses
- in Skye and Lochalsh and Lochaber employs more than 20 per cent of the workforce
- is dominated by small firms, with 62 per cent of tourism businesses employing less than 25 people
- most popular visitor attraction in 2004 was the Aros Experience in Portree which attracted 262,210 visitors
- Eilean Donan Castle and Visitor Centre, Kyle of Lochalsh and Urquhart Castle were the next most popular visitor attractions, attracting more than half a million visitors between them in 2004
- UK visitors in 2001- 2003 took approximately 3.9 million trips and spent approximately £838 million each year
- overseas visitors took approximately 400,000 trips in 2003 and spent approximately £112 million
Get a regional breakdown for :
The Highlands | Orkney | Shetland | Outer Hebrides | Ayrshire and Arran | Argyll, Loch Lomond, Forth Valley | elsewhere in Scotland
The Highlands | Orkney | Shetland | Outer Hebrides | Ayrshire and Arran | Argyll, Loch Lomond, Forth Valley | elsewhere in Scotland
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