After a long pause in the travel and tourism industry, the Scottish government has announced an aid of 2.5 million Euro to restart the marine and tourism industry. This fund has mainly dispersed to help the marine adventure as well as tourism that is going to be administered by ‘VisitScotland’. This amount will be given as an aid to Wild Scotland and Sail Scotland to support them to restart their operations in the water.
Basically, this fund has been taken out from the package amount of 104.3 million Euros that have been announced by the government to resettle the travel and tourism business. Since the first quarter of the year 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the traveling and tourism business was completely paused. This was the worst hit by any situation in the travel and tourism industry. With Scotland not being quite having the weather of the Cyclades, it has a much shorter sailing season.
Some of the countries in this globe earn good revenue from their travel and tourism business and Scotland is one of them. Thus they have allowed this fund to restart and resume the operations of the tourism industry. Since the business is connected to many of the ancillary businesses and arrange for many other occupations, the pandemic situation has hit many lives drastically. On the other hand, the tourism business is completely dependent on seasonality and thus they have to incur a huge loss due to their high setup costs. Not only this, tourism is involved in providing outdoor activities like a visit to the land and the water body, witnessing the wildlife on both land and in water, mountaineering as well as bushcraft. This business is very much complex in nature and involves various other sectors with it.
Those who are willing to apply for the fund will have to put an application with all the credentials and their detailed plan. The authorized bodies have advised for the eligibility criteria as well as a list of information that is necessary to apply for the grant that will be up to 15,000 Euros mostly.
According to the Director of Industry and Destination Development, the tourism industry of Scotland has been worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic and thus it has been devastated. Like the other many business options, the travel and tourism industry is also suffering from a need for aid badly. Thus the government has decided to allow aid for this industry. They are extremely happy so that they are able to work with the best bodies related to this sector namely Wild Scotland and Sail Scotland.
As per the authorities of Wild Scotland and Sail Scotland also, the aid is going to play a vital role in making the industry operates with its full capacity. This one is going to be crucial as well as exceptional to the people related to this business. It will also help the rural and fragile communities so that they can restart their life. They will again be able to fulfill the potential demand for this industry and it will help the industry to recover again.