XX Commonwealth Games Visitor Study: Visitor Survey Results Report

This report provides the survey results from the XX Commonwealth Games Visitor Survey.


Footnotes

1 Further details on this estimate and the approaches followed to produce it are provided in Section 8 and Annex B.

2 Clyde Valley includes Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, South Lanarkshire and North Lanarkshire.

3 This final estimate is a revision from the interim estimate of £282 million following the provision of more information on ticketing income from Glasgow 2014 Limited. See Section 8 for further details.

4 Ibid

5 As part of Festival 2014, Opening and Closing Celebration Parties where hosted at the Glasgow Green and Kelvingrove Bandstand Live Zones. The Opening and Closing Celebration Parties offered a range of activities whilst enabling those who attended to watch the Opening and Closing Ceremonies on large TV screens.

6 Reports available on the Scottish Government Assessing Legacy 2014 website – www.gov.scot/assessinglegacy2014.

7 Further details on this estimate and the approaches followed to produce it are provided in Section 8 and Annex B.

8 Clyde Valley includes Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, South Lanarkshire and North Lanarkshire. Together Glasgow and the Clyde Valley make up the broadly defined metropolitan City-Region of Glasgow.

9 Scottish Household Survey

10 Only statistically significant variations are highlighted in the commentary. See Annex B for details.

11 The survey sample may have under represented people with a long term illness or disability to some extent as, while the interview locations covered a representative spread of general visitor access points and communal areas, the approach did not specifically aim to include separate entrances and access arrangements provided for people with disabilities.

12 Scotland Visitor Survey 2011 – See Regional Results: Glasgow City. http://www.visitscotland.org/pdf/Visitor%20Survey%20-%20Regional%20Factsheet%20-%20Glasgow%20FV3_pptx%20[Read-Only].pdf

13 Ibid

14 Note: In the survey if multiple modes of transport were used by a respondent these would all be recorded. Therefore percentages sum to over 100%.

15 Scotland Visitor Survey 2011 – See Regional Results: Glasgow City. http://www.visitscotland.org/pdf/Visitor%20Survey%20-%20Regional%20Factsheet%20-%20Glasgow%20FV3_pptx%20[Read-Only].pdf

16 Visits to venues in Edinburgh and Angus excluded from this analysis to allow comparison with Tourism Day Visit norms for the West of Scotland.

17 Source: GB Day Visit Survey 2013 https://www.visitengland.com/sites/default/files/gbdvs_annual_report_2013_redesigned_version_v1_16_09_14.pdf

18 This final estimate is a revision from the interim estimate of £282 million following the provision of more information on ticketing income from Glasgow 2014 Limited. See page 47 for further details.

19 Source: Great Britain Tourism Survey – Average spend per night – Holiday visits to Scotland 2013.

20 Scotland Visitor Survey 2011 – See Regional Results: Glasgow City. http://www.visitscotland.org/pdf/Visitor%20Survey%20-%20Regional%20Factsheet%20-%20Glasgow%20FV3_pptx%20[Read-Only].pdf

21 See the Method and Methods Note sections of the XX Commonwealth Games Visitor Impact Study: Interim Report available on the Scottish Government Assessing Legacy 2014 website – www.gov.scot/assessinglegacy2014.

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