Tomorrow’s World – new edition

Why will health and tourism be the world’s largest industry by 2022?
Over the past two decades, society has witnessed a steady growth in disposable income, and staying fit and healthy has been consumers’ top priority, resulting in a plethora of health-related consumer products, whether anti-ageing creams, day spas or medical procedures. In the latest edition of Tomorrow’s World the prospects for health, beauty and well being are explored as a tourism concept. Click here for more details.

Viewpoint

This month, Anna Leask from Napier University discusses the future of the heritage sector as part of VisitScotlands viewpoint series. Click here for more.

Futures Lecture - The facts and myths of immigration

64% of Scotland’s tourism workforce are non-UK residents. With expansion of the EU, immigrant workers from Poland, Slovakia and other Eastern European countries are the backbone of Scotland’s tourism industry. But this fact isn’t new; during Victoria times, that backbone was Austrian and German workers. The tourism industry all over the world relies on immigrant workers, whether it is Scots in New Zealand or Mexicans in the USA.

Without immigrant workers, Scotland’s, and indeed the world’s, tourism industry would come to a grinding halt. Morag Patrick talks about the myths and facts of immigration and what it means for the UK, both from a social and economic perspective on Wednesday 21 February at Lochaber College, by Fort William. For further details, click here.