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Galloway Kite Trail spending 'worth £33m'

Started by Wildfisher, December 18, 2012, 08:03:24 AM

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Wildfisher

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

tomcatin

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

[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/]
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Bobfly

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.
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Inchlaggan

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.
'til a voice as bad as conscience,
rang interminable changes,
on an everlasting whisper,
day and night repeated so-
"Something hidden, go and find it,
Go and look beyond the ranges,
Something lost beyond the ranges,
Lost and waiting for you,
Go."

Wildfisher

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:

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