Scottish Tourism Alliance publishes industry impact survey results
TRKR Insight & Innovation worked with the STA to conduct a survey to offer us an understanding of the true impact of the Covid-19 crisis on tourism businesses.
Some of the headlines from the 280 responses:
- 78% of tourism businesses said that the job retention scheme doesn’t work for their business
- 48% of businesses won’t be able to retain any staff after May (end of furlough)
- 92% of businesses have inadequate or no relevant insurance
- 88% of businesses said that their volume of business/income has disappeared
- 82% of respondents said they were anxious, stressed or depressed
- 31% of businesses said they only had enough reserves to last three months
- 30% of businesses said they will have to reduce their workforce
- 14% of businesses have now stopped trading
You can now download the full report here.
Thank you to everyone who took part in they survey and particularly to TRKR. If you’d like to find out more about the services they offer, please click here.
