We find a wide ranging selection of studies in connection with the impact on toursim in Scotland.
Some studies conclude that there will be little impact...but read on.
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Visit Scotland produced a 'Position Statement' on windfarms.
An extract quotes the following from The Scottish Government's own research
In terms of economic impact, the Scottish Government’s 2007 research concludes that: ‘The potential effect on tourism expenditure associated with meeting the renewables target, via substantial wind farm development, will mean that by 2015 there will be £4.7 million less Gross Value Added in the Scottish economy than there would have been in the absence of any wind farms (at 2007 prices). This effect will be offset or reinforced by other economic or environmental impacts of wind farms and a part of the adjustment may have already occurred’.
Thoughts on this That was the Government view in 2007 How will this change as the scope and number of windfarms increases exponentially across the landscape. Visit the page with the HC windfarm map and look at the 'prefferred and possible' sites for the Highlands alone.Those all revolve around the areas that the majority of visitors actually 'visit'. If the national plans for developing more and more windfarms continues, can we then say that this will have little impact on tourism?
Polls and Questionnaires can be at best poorly constructed or misleading and at times engineered to elicit a looked-for result.
