Holidaymakers enjoying caravanning breaks in Scotland are being encouraged to take advantage of some of the finest sailing in Europe.
The latest figures published by Wild Scotland show that around six in ten of its members, who include both big and small tourism operators, saw an increase in visitors over the course of 2009 as Britons opted to holiday at home.
And, according to Sail Scotland, growing numbers of those heading north of the border are looking to get active, with the country’s image changing among those taking a caravan holiday or other type of break there.
“They’re now identifying Scotland not just as the whisky, the tartan and the golf, but they are seeing it as a sailing destination,” explained the group’s director Tony Bennett.
As well as the historic Firth of Clyde, Mr Bennett also advised visitors to pitch their caravans close to the Firth of Clyde or Argyll and the Inner Hebrides so as to be close to the best sailing the country has to offer.
Of those polled in a recent study by travelsupermarket.com, one in three UK holidaymakers stated their main summer break would be a ‘staycation’.
