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Article published 13/03/2025

Our global marketing campaigns

We've been busy promoting Scotland to the world, ensuring it’s top-of-mind for travellers. Our activity aims to influence visitors, whether leisure or business, through the channels we know they use for travel inspiration. 

Our key objectives across all of our activity, across our own and our partners channels, is to promote seasonal and regional spread.  This includes PR and travel trade marketing activities, such as working with key tour operators, DMC's and transport partners.

Our aim is to position Scotland as an inclusive, year-round destination in a sustainable way. Our campaigns also promote Scotland as a destination for enriching personal experiences. 

The purpose of our global marketing campaigns is to inspire audiences to move to the next stage of the 'visitor lifecycle'. This means encouraging individuals to consider and choose Scotland as a destination, followed by booking a trip to then visit and experience Scotland first-hand. 

We achieve this by increasing awareness and inspiring people with everything Scotland has to offer all year round. One way we achieve this is through sharing engaging video and photo content on our own owned and earned channels. 

 

A van promoting Scotland parked beside the Cologne Cathedral. Credit: VisitScotland

Upcoming paid media campaigns

We know that visitors are looking for increasingly meaningful and sustainable travel experiences. We use this knowledge to plan our campaigns, using it as a hook to tell our stories and forge deeper connections with visitors.  

Our paid media campaigns for 2024 - 2025 will focus on the United Kingdom, United States, France, and Germany. To target these markets, we’ve partnered with Amazon, Afar, National Geographic and Le Figaro. 

Continued partnership with National Geographic and Disney 

Following our successful National Geographic and Disney partnership, which ran January to March 2024, we’re bringing back this campaign into French and German markets in 2025. 

Key results from 2024 include:  

  • 19.1 million social and display ad impressions 

  • 1 million video views 

  • 98,400 content page views 

The campaign was initially launched in France and Germany in 2024 for only two weeks. During these two weeks, France and Germany drove particularly positive results. This included a staying on the campaign page (also known as dwell-time) for more than five minutes, compared to the average of two minutes. 

The success of the 2024 campaign created an opportunity for us to re-launch and gain wider coverage across France and Germany. This gives us a further opportunity to engage audiences by spotlighting Scottish locations which inspired iconic Disney stories.

 

Locations and films/TV series featured include:

  • Culross, Fife (Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger) 

  • Dunnottar Castle, Aberdeenshire (Disney/Pixar’s Brave) 

  • Edinburgh (Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War) 

  • Glasgow (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) 

  • Glen Tilt, Perthshire (Star Wars: Andor) 

  • St Abbs, Scottish Borders (Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame) 

Amazon campaign with the United States market  

A 30 second video advert showcasing a mix of Scottish landscapes, attractions and events will be shown on Amazon Prime / Firestick TV; the paid subscription service of Amazon. This activity will target New York City, Boston, Washington, California, Florida, Chicago and Atlanta raising awareness of Scotland.

 

Content partnership with Afar 

The United States travel magazine Afar focuses on experiential travel. This includes featuring Scotland in podcasts, emails, display ads and trade partnership. The trade element will help maximise Scotland awareness among  Afar’s travel advisors highlighting must-do experiences, hotels and more.   

 

European content partnerships with Le Figaro and Geo  

Le Figaro, a French weekly magazine, and Geo, a monthly German educational magazine, will be promoting Scotland within these titles. The promotion will focus on podcast and display advertisements. 

Our video advert being used by Amazon, United States. Credit: VisitScotland

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