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This learning experience is designed to enable
learners to demonstrate the knowledge and skills
required to provide tourist information on Scotland
and makes significant use of web based resources
Section 1- Current & Future Tourism Trends in
Scotland
Section 2 – The Regional Geography of Scotland
Section 3 – Focussing on the Regions
Section 4 – Check your knowledge
Section
- TourismininScotland
Scotland
Section
1 - 1Tourism
In Scotland during the year 2000, almost 21 million tourists took
overnight trips and spent just under £4.5 billion. This supports
around 8% of all employment. Within the UK, England is the main
market but a large market comes from within Scotland itself. Key
foreign markets are the United States of America, Germany and
France.
In this section you’ll explore current & future
trends for tourism in Scotland.
Click here for a worksheet and use the link provided to help you
answer each question. You can print the worksheet off and return it
to your tutor or complete an electronic version and email it to your
tutor when it’s complete. Remember to save your worksheet
regularly.
Press Esc to exit programme at any time
Section 2- The regional geography of Scotland
Can you identify all the
regions on the map?
Click here to see how well you
know the regional geography of
Scotland
Before moving on click
on each region on the
map to find out a bit
more about each of
them.
Click here for a summary sheet
you can take notes on.
Aberdeen &
Grampian Highlands
Lying between the Grampian Mountains and the
North Sea which washes its north and east
coasts, rural Aberdeenshire is best known for its
beef cattle, its coastal fishing villages and its
many historic castles. Aberdeenshire is also
home to major paper, food and drink, tourism
and oil-related industries. It is watered by the
Dee, Don, Ythan and Deveron Rivers and its chief
towns are Fraserburgh, Banff, Inverurie,
Stonehaven and Peterhead which is Europe's
largest white-fish port.
The City's coat of arms depicting three castles and its motto - 'Bon Accord' - are
said to date from the time of King Robert the Bruce and the massacre of English
troops in the neighbourhood. The motto was the watchword to initiate the
campaign and the arms represent three castles that stood on three hills around
which Aberdeen developed, namely Castle Hill, the Port or Windmill Hill
(Gallowgate) and St. Catherine's Hill. Robert the Bruce granted his hunting lands
on the forest of Stocket to the citizens of Aberdeen. These 'Freedom Lands'
provided revenue that was eventually applied to creating the city's Common
Good Fund – click here to see the locations
"(c) Gazetteer for Scotland, 1995-2002“
"Used with permission from the Gazetteer for Scotland at http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/"
Highland
Durness
The Highland region stretches from Appin in the south
to John o' Groats in the far north, encompassing the
greater part of NW Scotland
with its mountains, lochs
Ullapool
and heavily indented Atlantic coastline as well as the
island of Skye. The region is bisected by the Great
Glen, a natural geological fault line within which lies
Loch Ness and the Caledonian Canal. Its chief towns
The Cullin Hills
are Inverness,
Fort William, Mallaig, Dingwall, Wick,
Invergordon, and Dornoch – click here to see the
locations
Inverness
Ardnamurchan Point
"(c) Gazetteer for Scotland, 1995-2002“
"Used with permission from the Gazetteer for Scotland at http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/"
Durness
Highland Region
Highland
Thurso
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Ullapool
Dornoch
Dingwall
The Cullins Skye
Inverness
Mallaig
Ardnamurchan point
Fort William
Invergordon
John O’Groats
Wick
Aberdeen & Grampian
Aberdeen
Highlands
page 2
Fraserburgh
Banff
Peterhead
Glenfiddich
Inverurie
Aberdeen
Stonehaven
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