High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Friday, June 05, 2009
Outdoor Visits
Outdoor recreation is beneficial for health and well-being. It also provides opportunities for people to come into contact with, and increase their understanding of, the natural environment. Although outdoor recreation has multiple motivations, this indicator provides a useful measure of the numbers of people who gain benefit and enjoyment from nature and biodiversity and improve their understanding of the importance and functioning of the natural environment.
The Scottish Government has established a National Indicator to increase the proportion of adults making one or more visits to the outdoors per week. During 2008, 47% of adults are estimated to have visited the outdoors one or more times per week, compared to 44% during 2007 and 2006. This data is taken from the Scottish Recreation Survey where respondents were asked how often on average they had made a visit to the outdoors for leisure and recreation in Scotland in the last 12 months.
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Source: Scottish Natural Heritage
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