There need to be efforts made by the likes of VisitScotland on a national level but also local businesses and regional tourism organisations to plant the idea of visiting out of season in people’s minds as well as promoting other circular road trips li...
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There need to be efforts made by the likes of VisitScotland on a national level but also local businesses and regional tourism organisations to plant the idea of visiting out of season in people’s minds as well as promoting other circular road trips like the South West Coastal 300 – which travels around Dumfries and Galloway – and the North East 250, which runs through Aberdeenshire and Angus close to dozens of whisky distilleries.
Tourists must be tempted away from 'bucket list' Scottish spots, say experts
THERE is an urgent need to encourage tourists away from “bucket list” destinations and get them to visit Scotland in spring and autumn amid…
The National (www.thenational.scot)
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Simon Brookereplied to JackTheRebelCat 🏴 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 last edited by
@JackTheCat I think promoting tourism is a very bad idea. Back in the late 1970s I had a business which was almost entirely dependent on tourism. In 1979 Thatcher was elected, and in 1980 she deliberately put the economy into recession to create "a leaner, fitter Britain".
In 1981, there were no tourists, and hundreds of little businesses across Galloway went to the wall, including mine.
The tourism industry is always subject to sudden, severe shocks. It isn't sustainable in any sense.
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JackTheRebelCat 🏴 🇵🇸 🇺🇦replied to Simon Brooke last edited by
@simon_brooke You know better than me. I dislike the campervan based tourism intensely but I also understand that small communities and attractions may need it to survive. No current easy answers although I speak as someone with only a backpacking hiker's view of what I see as I go around Scotland.
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Simon Brookereplied to JackTheRebelCat 🏴 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 last edited by
@JackTheCat I think small remote communities need something to help them survive, certainly, but I think it's mainly protection from the capitalist housing market. There's enough (modest) work to do here if people on modest incomes could afford to live here.
But as it is we're turning rural Scotland into a landscape of holiday accommodation, homes for the rich retired, and homes for a few unretired ultra-rich, with the few remaining locals living in social housing or old caravans in the woods.