Cost of Doing Business
The coming months will be very hard for the tourism and events industry due to rising costs and less disposable income for our customers. We have pulled together advice and guidance to help your business in the short term, and to allow you to build a more sustainable future. Along with our partners, we have a range of advice that could help your business.
Take me to the "cost of doing business" support and advice webpage.
Green certification
As a result of the Sustainability Certification Scheme Fund, three sustainable certification programmes - Green Tourism, Green Key and EarthCheck are offering a £500 discount on their membership fees to those within the tourism industry looking to gain green certification. Find out more about the Green Certification Schemes.
Our Great Days Out campaign
This campaign, working with ASVA, Historic Environment Scotland (HES), and ScotRail promotes discounted tickets to inspire people explore the country on a day out or short break. Aimed at visitors attractions and outdoor operators, if you would like to submit an offer then take a look at our industry guide to get involved.
Scotland Connect
Our new business-to-business travel trade event, VisitScotland Connect, will bring together Scottish suppliers with international and UK buyers in 2023.
The workshop-style event, which will be held at P&J Live in Aberdeen on 19 and 20 April 2023, is now open for registration by trade-ready Scottish businesses.
VisitScotland Connect will replace Expo, our annual travel trade event. For us to deliver a quality event, we need a guaranteed number of businesses to participate. We're asking businesses to register interest by 25 November 2022 to secure a space.
If we don't get enough registered interest by this date we'll hold a virtual event instead, as we did successfully in 2020 and 2021.
To register and apply to participate, please visit the supplier portal.
Standard participation is £1,800+VAT. We're making it as affordable as possible by allowing businesses to pay in two instalments over two financial years.
For more information, please get in touch with us at connect@visitscotland.com
DigitalBoost
We're halfway through our Digital Boost webinar series with Business Gateway with three sessions remaining covering analytics, search engine optimisation and blog content. Don't miss out, find out more and book your free place!
Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund (RTIF)
To date, a total of £18 million of grant funding has been awarded to 74 projects across rural Scotland, since the start of the Fund in 2018, to improve visitor facilities and access and to promote low-carbon transport options.
Managed by VisitScotland on behalf of the Scottish Government, the RTIF was created to improve the quality of the visitor experience in rural parts of Scotland that have faced pressure on their infrastructure due to an increase in visitor numbers.
The Trossachs Scenic viewpoints project in Stirling was awarded funding as part of round five and in round four the Doune Tourism Development Phase two in Stirling was also awarded funding. Read more about these projects.
