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Title: Galloway Kite Trail spending 'worth £33m'
Post by: Wildfisher on December 18, 2012, 08:03:24 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-20762343 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-20762343)

That's just Galloway and just kites.

OK, it's an estimate and one must be cautious,  but don't forget that game bird shooting lobby "estimates"  put grouse shooting  at a mere £20M for  the whole of Scotland. It would seem that economically raptors are worth far more to Scotland's economy than killing game birds.

Let's hear it for the raptors and organizations like the RSPB whose efforts have made this economic windfall possible.  :D
Title: Re: Galloway Kite Trail spending 'worth £33m'
Post by: tomcatin on December 18, 2012, 08:50:57 PM
Aye and at the same time hats off to the other great and smart Galloway development bringing economic benefit to local business and communities, the Forestry Commision's Galloway Forest Dark Skies Park.

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/darkskygalloway (http://www.forestry.gov.uk/darkskygalloway)

[PS I cannot wait to get a chance to visit the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory recently opened on the  Craigengillan Estate, near Dalmellington on a hill above Loch Doon on the northern edge of the Forest Park http://www.scottishdarkskyobservatory.co.uk/ (http://www.scottishdarkskyobservatory.co.uk/)]
Title: Re: Galloway Kite Trail spending 'worth £33m'
Post by: Bobfly on December 19, 2012, 02:36:11 PM
Always very tricky to put figures and valuations on these things.
Grouse at £20m per annum and about approx £3.5m per annum for Galloway kites?? If a visitor happens to be in the D and G area this could be something they would visit but are their holiday visit costs being attributed to the birds. We have a large red kite population around us in Perthshire and a feeding station that has been there for many years. I have no knowledge of tourism values being claimed for this nor for places like the Black Isle.
I think if all event and attraction "claims" are added up for a year across Scotland they could well total more than the tourist industry. For the New Year does Edinburgh truly achieve fresh extra spending of £XXX or does money going to be spent anyway for the New Year just make a location move? Very hard to tell.
Title: Re: Galloway Kite Trail spending 'worth £33m'
Post by: Inchlaggan on December 19, 2012, 03:13:17 PM
Great fun statistics eh?
Put that story a different way and the Trail is worth 5.5p per day to the population of D&G.
Title: Re: Galloway Kite Trail spending 'worth £33m'
Post by: Wildfisher on December 19, 2012, 03:20:43 PM
Quote from: Inchlaggan on December 19, 2012, 03:13:17 PM
Great fun statistics eh?
Put that story a different way and the Trail is worth 5.5p per day to the population of D&G.

Indeed and using the same logic  it follows that grouse shooting is worth a mere fraction of that to the population of Scotland!   :lol: