Welcome to the Scottish Tourism Forum

Our aim

To contribute to the strengthening of Scottish tourism and add value to member businesses.

What is the Scottish Tourism Forum?

The Forum is an independent trade body comprising trade associations, businesses, marketing and local area tourism groups who earn their living from tourism or have an active interest in tourism.

Our purpose is to support the effort to have tourism recognised as Scotland's foremost sustainable industry and unite tourism interests with effective and independent communication and lobbying.

Our aim is to make a meaningful contribution to the improvement of Scotland's international competitiveness and business performance.

Success in achieving our aims will result in a stronger Scottish tourism product, which in turn adds business and value to members' products.

There are 20,000 tourism businesses in the country, generating £4.2 billion value to Scotland p.a. Tourism is set to grow to over £6.0 billion by 2015.

Over 215,000 people are employed in the industry, more than 8% of the total workforce.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

The Forum is currently involved in the following activities:

EET Committe inquiry into the feasibility of 50% growth in Tourism by 2015
Licensing
Climate Change Review
Wind Farms and the impact on Tourism
Training
Looking at strengthing industry engagement with public sector
Tourism Visitor Levy
Grangemouth Issue

News updates

Scottish Tourism Week 2009 - dates to be released later this month.
STF's next Open Meeting will be held on Wednesday 4th June at Perth Racecourse. To register please email: events@stforum.co.uk or view more information.
STF has been asked to give second round evidence to the EET Committee's Inquiry into the feasibility of achieving 50% growth in tourist revenue by 2015. Complete inquiry report is due to be released on the 28th May. View STF's response to the EET Committee's Inquiry
SCOTTISH TOURISM WEEK 2008! View info on Scottish Tourism Week 2008 which ran from 4th - 11th March.
SCOTLAND UNITED CONFERENCE: Speaker presentations are now available to view on Scotland's most influencial tourism conference. View more info
NEW MSP PROJECT WILL BE COMING SOON!
STF sets out key priorities for 2008 for the tourism industry in Scotland.
The Scottish Executive have provided Q&As for tourism businesses concerned about the impact of the new licensing regulations.
View or download licensing Q&As.
New Members badges available for your website. Badges can be downloaded from the members area of this site.

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