High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Thursday, August 21, 2008
Expenditure and visits
Tourism is one of Scotland's largest business sectors. It is an important element in the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Scotland, from major cities to rural areas many of which depend on the industry for jobs and infrastructure.
- Expenditure on tourism-related activities is worth around £4.2 billion per year to the Scottish economy (2007 provisional data).
- In 2007, around 16 million tourists took overnight trips to Scotland (2007 provisional data).
- The tourism-related sector supports over 9% of employment in Scotland (2006 data). [source: Annual Business Inquiry, using Nomis]
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