VisitScotland
Scottish national tourism organisation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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VisitScotland, formerly the Scottish Tourist Board (Scottish Gaelic: Bòrd Turasachd na h-Alba), is a national tourism organisation for Scotland. It is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness, and other parts of Scotland.[2]
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Formed | 1969; 55 years ago (1969) (as the Scottish Tourist Board) |
Type | Executive non-departmental public body |
Jurisdiction | Scotland |
Headquarters | Ocean Point One, 94 Ocean Drive, Leith, Edinburgh |
Employees | 525 (2019)[1] |
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Website | www |
Among the organisation's tasks is the attraction of visitors to Scotland through advertising and promotional campaigns. VisitScotland also manages a number of quality grading schemes for tourist accommodation and attractions.[3] The organisation also operates the VisitScotland.com website which provides bookings and information service for visitors to Scotland. From 2001 this website was operated as a public-private partnership venture,[4] though this venture (and the website) was brought back into public ownership in 2008.[4][5]