Assessing the economic impacts of nature based tourism in Scotland

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Outdoor events (not comprehensively covered in our analysis) Table A9 Events sub activities Mtn Bike racing Adventure racing Orienteering Outdoor festival, theatre or music event Activity type Location Participation requirements Organised Small number of High levels of skill event courses in rural and equipment Organised event Organised event Organised event areas Range of locations often including mountain areas and coastal sites Growing range of mapped sites – mainly forest locations Limited to sites with appropriate facilities and infrastructures High levels of skill and equipment Medium levels of skill and equipment No skills or special equipment required 103
Appendix B – Methodological Notes 1. Field Sports 95% : Sporting Shooting : £70.0m (x 0.95) 95% : Game Angling : £75.6m (x 0.95) 20% : Sea Angling : £44.9m (x 0.2) Scottish visitors = 15% of all spend 2. Wildlife Watching 95% : 220,000 trips x 6.5 nights x £50 (x 0.95) 40% : 410,000 x 6 x £55 (x 0.4) 20% : 290,000 x 5 x £55 (x 0.2) Scottish visitors = 30% of all spend 3. Walking/Mountaineering The 95% Walking/Mountaineering estimate is half of the figure derived in Section 6 above because this was considered too high. This adjustment is partly to exclude urban walking. 95% : 1.9m trips x 6 x £50 x 50% (discounted) (x 0.95) 40% : 1.2m x 5 x £55 (x 0.4) 20% : 3.4m x 6 x £55 (x 0.2) Scottish visitors = 30% of all spend 4. Snow Sports 40,000 overnight stays estimated 95% : 25,000 nights x £80 (x 0.95) 40% : 10,000 x £80 (x 0.4) 20% : 5,000 x £80 (x 0,2) Scottish visitors = 20% of all spend 5. Adventure Activities 95% : £57.6m (x 0.95) 40% : £5.8m (x 0.4) 20% : £11.6m (x 0.2) Scottish visitors = 30% of all spend 6. Cycling 95% : £51.1m (x 0.95) 40% : £59.9m (x 0.4) 20% : £59.9m (x 0.2) Scottish cycling visitors = 30% of all spend 104
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7 CYCLING 45 7.1 Mountain biking 45
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List of Tables Page Table 1 - Natur
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1.3 Nature-based tourism For the pu
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market and accounts for 83% of tour
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expenditure during these trips was
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nature site • . Were this spend t
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2.3.2 Assessing employment and inco
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• Common resources, which are use
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4 FIELD SPORTS The findings from th
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4.2 Deer management The Contributio
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Table 11 - Deer Management in Scotl
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• Sea angling questions incorpora
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4.6 Other studies • The trips mos
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3. The Economic Impact of Game and
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5 WILDLIFE WATCHING 5.1 Wildlife to
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These impacts appear to us to be ov
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Wildlife watching Substantial but n
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• Abseiling - allows safe descent
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those who said they were walking al
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oute was estimated to be in the reg
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participants, though in terms of vo
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Visit Scotland (2009) provides a fi
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This evaluation assessed the ultima
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For these motivational reasons, Gre
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8 HORSE RIDING 8.1 Equestrian sport
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