Economic impacts of wind farms on Scottish tourism: report

List of Tables

Table 1-1 Value and Volume of Scottish Tourism (2005)
Table 1-2 Long Distance (>50 miles) Journey Purpose
Table 1-3 Tourist Expenditure in the Case Study Areas

Table 2-1 Likelihood of Return Example
Table 2-2 Assessment of Expenditure Example

Table 3-1 Reaction of visitors to renewable energy developments in Assynt
Table 3-2 Rating and WTP scores for energy options, residents' sample
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Table 3-4
Table 3-5
Table 3-6 Potential Dis-Benefits of Wind Farms
Table 3-7 Comparison of Wind Farm Developments and Tourism Numbers for England and Scotland
Table 3-8
Table 3-9 The Perceived Positive and Negative Impacts at Dun Law
Table 3-10
Table 3-11 Attitude towards wind power
Table 3-12 Post Build Attitudes
Table 3-13 Views on negative impact on landscape
Table 3-14 Views on negative impact on the wild life
Table 3-15 Views on impact on outdoor activities
Table 3-16 Views on impact on tourism in the area
Table 3-17 Summary of Studies of Wind Farm Impacts on Return Likelihood (excluding attitudes and local opinions of impacts)
Table 3-18 Summary of Studies of Wind Farm Impacts on Value (excluding attitudes and local opinions of impacts)

Table 4-1 Visitor Destinations, Wind farm Sites and Intercept Locations
Table 4-2 Structure of Question on Attitudes
Table 4-3 Response by Interview Location
Table 4-4 Country of Origin of Overseas Respondents
Table 4-5 Country of Origin from VisitScotland Data
Table 4-6 Q4 First Trip to Scotland?
Table 4-7 Q4 First Trip to Scotland - Overnight Stays Only
Table 4-8 Q5 First Trip to Area, by Area
Table 4-9 Q5 First Trip to Area? - Overnight Stays Only
Table 4-10 Q5 First Trip to Area, by Area - Overnight Stays Only
Table 4-11 Opinion of Structures in the Landscape - All Structures
Table 4-12 Opinion of Wind farms by Country of Origin
Table 4-13 Opinion of Wind farms by Trip Type
Table 4-14 Opinion of Wind farms by Main Activity
Table 4-15 Frequency of Likelihood of Return to Each Area
Table 4-16 Q15 Likelihood of Return to Scotland
Table 4-17 Q18 Did you see a Wind farm in the AREA?
Table 4-18 Q18 by Intercept Area
Table 4-19 Q19 Would this affect decision to visit AREA again?
Table 4-20 Stirlingshire/Perthshire - Q18 Did you see a Wind farm in the AREA?
Table 4-21 Stirlingshire/Perthshire - Q19 Would this affect decision to visit AREA again?
Table 4-22 Q13 Likelihood of Return to Area *vQ20 How much would it affect decision to visit AREA again? (Seen)
Table 4-23 Q15 Likelihood of Return to Scotland v Q22 How much would thus affect decision to visit SCOTLAND? (Seen)
Table 4-24 Q23 Would this affect decision to visit AREA again?
Table 4-25 Q13 Likelihood of Return to Area v Q24 How much would this affect decision to visit AREA again? Planned Farms
Table 4-26 Q27 Would this affect decision to visit AREA again?
Table 4-27 Location of Intercept and Future Visit Intention Based on Extended Wind farm
Table 4-28 Q13 Likelihood of Return to Area v Q28 How much would this affect decision to visit AREA again? Enlarged Farms (prev 4.5.17)
Table 4-29 Impact of Change in Intention of Three Visual Impact Scenarios
Table 4-30 Q31 - I don't like to see several Wind farms in the same view
Table 4-31 Q31 - I don't like to see Wind farms
Table 4-32 Q31 - I think they should be painted to make them less visible
Table 4-33 Q31 - A well sited Wind farm does not ruin the landscape

Table 5-1 Typical Road Data Utilised
Table 5-2 Estimates of Vehicle Numbers by Tourist Area
Table 5-3 National Travel Survey Results for Scotland
Table 5-4 Assessing the proportion of vehicles exposed

Table 6-1 Variable Descriptions and Derived Variables
Table 6-2 Distribution of Respondents by Gender
Table 6-3 Distribution of Respondents by Age Group
Table 6-4 Distribution of Respondents by Residence
Table 6-5 Main type of accommodation used by sample
Table 6-6 Principle Reason for Visit
Table 6-7 The Value of Scenery
Table 6-8 Loss of Value by Location and Type
Table 6-9 Loss of Value by Gender
Table 6-10 Loss of Value and Age of Respondent
Table 6-11 Loss of value by home region
Table 6-12 Price of Room v Daily Expenditure
Table 6-13 Relationship between Value of Scenery and Daily Expenditure
Table 6-14 Value of Scenery and Visits to Scotland
Table 6-15 Value and Accommodation
Table 6-16 Value and Trip Purpose
Table 6-17 Distribution of values placed on changes by individuals
Table 6-18 Prevalence of Wind Farms
Table 6-19 Possible Reaction to increase in number of wind farms
Table 6-20 Difference in perception between visitors and non-visitors of likelihood of seeing Wind farm
Table 6-21 Differences in Reaction between visitors and non visitors
Table 6-22 Gender of US Respondents
Table 6-23 Age of US Respondents
Table 6-24 Accommodation used by US Respondents
Table 6-25 Primary Purpose of US Tourists
Table 6-26 Comparison of the value of specific scenes to US and UK tourists
Table 6-27 Loss of value from developments for US and UK Tourists
Table 6-28 Loss of Values to US Tourists by Age
Table 6-29 Loss of Values to US Tourists by Accommodation
Table 6-30 Loss of Values to US Tourists by Activity
Table 6-31 Distribution of Values by site
Table 6-32 Views on likelihood of seeing a wind farm
Table 6-33 Response of US visitors to Wind farms
Table 6-34 Effect of children in the party

Table 7-1 Estimated tourism spending summary 2006
Table 7-2 Tourist area estimates for 2005
Table 7-3 Intentions
Table 7-4 Estimated Percentage Change in Tourist Expenditure by Area
Table 7-5 Estimated Change in Accommodation Expenditure by Area

Table 8-1 Wind Farms in Caithness
Table 8-2 Length of Road (km) Exposed to Wind farms
Table 8-3 Accommodation Affected
Table 8-4 Percentage Change in Expenditure: Caithness and Sutherland

Table 9-1 National Scenic Areas in Stirling, Perth and Kinross
Table 9-2 Wind Farms in Stirling, Perth & Kinross
Table 9-3 Length of Road (km) Exposed to Wind farms in S,P&K
Table 9-4 Tourists exposed to wind farms in Stirling, Perth and Kinross
Table 9-5 Accommodation Exposed to Wind Turbine

Table 10-1 Wind farms in The Borders: Current and Applications
Table 10-2 Length of Named Roads Exposed to Wind farms
Table 10-3 Accommodation in the Borders Affected

Table 11-1 Wind farms in Dumfries and Galloway
Table 11-2 Roads in Dumfries and Galloway Exposed to Wind Farms
Table 11-3 Accommodation in Dunfries and Galloway Affected

Table 12-1 Percentage of Tourists Possibly Affected by Wind Farms

Table 13-1 Direct Jobs in the production of wind energy

Table 14-1 Changes in Likelihoods under alternative scenarios
Table 14-2 Proportion of Tourists and Accommodation Affected
Table 14-3 Scenes and mean values for UK and US respondents
Table 14-4 Loss of Value from Wind Farm Development
Table 14-5 Reduction in Accommodation Expenditure
Table 14-6 Economic Impact of Wind Farms on Tourism