Skip to main content
Visit Scotland | Alba

Our purpose

Our purpose is to drive the visitor economy, growing its value to Scotland, and ensuring tourism and events are a force for good. We use data and insight to inform our work. This ensures we reach the right audiences, offer the right support to businesses, and prioritise the markets where we see growth and potential.  

To achieve our objectives and develop a year round visitor economy, we focus our work in three key areas.

VisitScotland Connect 2023 desk

Our key areas of focus are:

What we're here to do

We’re committed to building Scotland’s international profile as a leading place to visit, live, work, study, and do business.

Key enablers to our work involve building our capability to be a data and insight led organisation, harnessing technology and partnerships to extend our reach and impact. Partnership and collaboration are at the heart of what we do. Working together with industry and the public, private, and third sectors, we can continue to make Scotland a destination of choice for visitors from near and far.

All our work will help deliver the ambitions of:

  • the national tourism strategy, Scotland Outlook 2030
  • the national events strategy, Scotland the Perfect Stage