ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the Scottish parliament’s influence on public policy in tourism in Scotland during the parliament’s first four year term (1999-2003). Accordingly, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the numerous high profile national tourism and economic development initiatives, consultations, reviews and strategies that evolved during this time. For example, from a period of relative tourism public policy inactivity leading up to devolution in 1999, the tourism industry in Scotland as is evidenced in the Appendix (Tables 1 and 4), has been under constant review, the most recent being the Scottish Parliament’s Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee (E&LLC) Inquiry into Tou rism (May 20 02), and the Scottish Executive’s Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister’s Consultation on the future of the A TB network (2 002-20 03). The latter, the second since 1999, (https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780080481401/efc378f6-39fb-4917-9780-ec7505877db6/content/www.Scotland.gov.uk/consultations/tourism/areatourist.pdf" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">www.Scotland.gov.uk/consultations/tourism/areatourist.pdf May-September 2 002), the first (Scottish Executive News Release SE4374/2001 19 November 2001) being inconclusive due to departmental responsibility for tourism moving to the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED) (see the Appendix (Tables 1 and 4), and also later in this chapter for a fuller explanation of this change) from the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department (ELLD) (see Chapter 5). The sum total of these initiatives was designed primarily to have a far-reaching impact not only on tourism in Scotland, but also in terms of job and business creation.
