Tourism Businesses in Scotland
Overview
In this dashboard you'll find information on employment, number of business units, turnover and gross value added (GVA) for tourism businesses in Scotland.
Last updated
27 January 2023
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What Businesses are included here?
This dashboard looks at businesses within the Sustainable Tourism Growth Sector as identified in Scotland's Economic Strategy. Scotland's Tourism Sector is a diverse industry made up of a range of subsectors such as hotels, camping sites and other forms of short stay accommodation, restaurants, bars, travel agents, museums and other recreational and cultural activities.
More information regarding the definition of the Sustainable Tourism Sector can be found on Tourism in Scotland: the economic contribution of the sector - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).
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Data Availability
Business unit figures are available for the period 2008 - 2022.
Employment figures are available for the period 2009 - 2022.
Turnover and GVA figures are available for the period 2009 - 2021.
New data will become available late in 2024 and the visualisations will be updated.
More information available
Additional information on Scottish businesses can also be found on Scottish Annual Business Statistics 2020 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
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If you require alternative formats of this data or visualisation please contact sto@visitscotland.com and the team will be able to assist.
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