Minister says Scottish parks play vital role

Providers of "fresh air holidays" in Scotland have been praised by tourism minister Fergus Ewing for their invaluable support of rural economies.

Mr Ewing was speaking at the annual conference of the British Holiday & Home Parks Association (Scotland) attended by many senior members of BH&HPA Scotland's 200-plus park businesses. Together they generate more than £700m of visitor spending annually.

In his address, Mr Ewing said that by consistently providing both value and quality, Scottish holiday parks were writing their own success story.

But the benefits, he pointed out, were felt right across the largely rural areas in which parks operate, thanks to the millions spent by visitors in other businesses in the regions:

"The holiday park sector offers good quality accommodation for all types of visitors, and helps to sustain employment in some of Scotland’s most remote and rural areas," Mr Ewing said.

"In this, it is a great success story. With the 2016 Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, there are even more reasons to organise a holiday or short break in Scotland.”

Mr Ewing noted that parks had also helped contribute to increasing overseas visitor numbers which were up by 4% compared with last year and their spending up by 10%.

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