This group helps to drive recovery and sustainable growth across both tourism and hospitality in the long term. It also supports work to grow the value and enhance the benefits of tourism across Scotland.
To achieve this, the group brings tourism industry representatives together with public agencies.
The group includes individuals from across the public, private and the third sector. Members have knowledge and experience of destinations, sectors and businesses.
Individuals were all appointed through an open application process. They were appointed as individuals and not as representatives of companies or organisations. Separately, nine organisations are also represented on the group.
The group provides a collaborative strategic forum. This enables leaders from across the industry to engage with each other, government and its agencies.
It works to maximise the economic, social and cultural contribution of tourism and hospitality.
The group too is set up to support the ambitions of the Scottish Government’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation (NSET).
In its activities, the group considers the four key priorities of Scotland Outlook 2030:
passionate people
thriving places
diverse businesses
memorable experiences
The ILG has identified five cross-cutting missions it believes it can successfully influence to achieve the ambitions of Outlook 2030.
Within those missions there are key game-changing actions required to achieve them. These actions are over and above the core activity already being carried out by industry and public agencies.
The ILG will use its influence to build support, but the actions will only be achieved through collaboration between industry, public, private and third sectors.
The missions are:
Please use these external links to learn more about the Tourism and Hospitality Industry Leadership Group and its mission.
Check out a detailed overview of the group's activities on the Scottish Government website.
Read all about Scotland's responsible tourism strategy for a sustainable future.