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Tourism takes sustainability to heart
04/10/2002
The ongoing drive to encourage more visitors to Scotland
can be enhanced by placing sustainability at the heart of
tourism developments across the country, a conference of
European Tourism representatives in Stirling was today.
Tourism Minister Mike Watson added that partnership was
the key to a successful future for Scottish tourism.
He said:
"The theme of this conference - Regeneration and
Sustainability - play an important role in tourism, and
indeed across Scotland. We are all becoming more aware of
the environment and the need to become sustainable.
"The Executive aims to promote sustainable development
across its whole work, combining economic progress with
social and environmental justice.
"In building a sustainable Scotland, we can make real
progress in tourism, for example through managing
sustainable forests, delivering better public transport and
helping tourist businesses become more 'green'.
"In addition to promoting sustainable development across
Scotland, we are committed to delivering real improvements
through such actions as enhanced access to the countryside
by investing in path networks and management, and
implementing the Scottish Forestry Strategy with additional
resources for recreational and tourist-related
facilities.
"Tourism is and has to remain everyone's business.
Tourism is a vital industry in Scotland. Partnership is the
key to a successful future. We need to work better together
and take advantage of all the opportunities available to
us."
The Stirling conference was the 27
th Annual Seminar and Convention of the European
Union of Tourist Officers.