The Scottish Environment Statistics - 1998

3. RECREATION

Table 3.1 Hotels, bedrooms and bedspace occupancy, by Tourist Board area, 1996 Accomodation Number of bedrooms Occupancy Survey1 Total Total Bedroom Bedspace Tourist Board area2 number number Occupancy Occupancy of of Annual Annual hotels3 bedspaces 1-3 4-10 11-25 26-50 51-100 100+ Average Average % of rooms % of rooms Aberdeen and Grampian 292 10,746 62 929 1411 764 1,236 1,455 62 41 Angus & Dundee 83 2,492 9 305 366 285 173 212 56 32 Perthshire 185 7,097 7 653 847 829 647 598 65 52 Fife 109 3,063 21 328 642 487 0 125 58 40 Argyll, Isles, Loch Lomond 342 12,561 52 1,076 1,688 770 2,282 802 62 46 Edinburgh & Lothians 205 13,341 3 663 1,056 744 1,067 3,255 75 56 Scottish Borders 103 2,213 26 423 332 154 99 137 65 55 Dumfries & Galloway 204 4,783 30 846 832 260 375 118 52 42 Ayrshire & Arran 153 4,400 23 609 704 372 272 373 54 40 Glasgow & Clyde 157 12,909 6 285 922 1,044 1,174 3,311 69 44 Highlands & Islands4 490 18,297 27 1,631 2,696 1,873 2,029 1,199 54 46 HOST Area5 429 16,326 21 1,470 2,324 1,464 1,897 1,199 55 47 Source:Scottish Tourist Board 1 Sample size is a minimum of 250 hotels each month in any given year. 2 See introductory notes, paragraph 8.2 for description of Tourist board areas. 3"Hotel" refers to hotels, motels and inns but not guest houses which are registered with TSB. 4Includes Orkney, Shetland & Western Isles ATB's. 5Highlands of Scotland Tourist Board (Excludes Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles).