STA in the press: Tourists snub Scotland ‘because of Brexit fears’
BREXIT uncertainty has caused overseas visitors to stay away from Scotland this year, heaping pressure on one of the country’s most important industries.
Tourism figures say the ongoing political strife in the UK has forced European tourists to holiday elsewhere this summer. And the decline has not been offset by so-called “staycations”, with the fragile economic conditions causing domestic holidaymakers to rein in their spending.
Worries over Brexit have emerged strongly in new evidence given to the Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA) the representative body for the industry with more than 250 members. It comes after figures from VisitScotland showed the number of inbound visits to Scotland plunged by 35 per cent to 420,000 in the first quarter of the year, while accompanying spending dropped 43% to £193 million.
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