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Cairngorms ViSIT Forum 
15/03/06 Paper 2 


Sustainable Tourism Strategy Action Plan: Annual Update 

Prepared by: Heather Galbraith, Sustainable Tourism Officer 

Purpose: To update the Forum on progress to date on the Action Plan and 
seek further input prior to the paper being presented to the 
CNPA Board in May 2006. 


Background 

1. The Sustainable Tourism Strategy contains a commitment to provide regular updates 
to the ViSIT Forum and CNPA Board on the delivery of the 5 year Action Plan. The 
first 6 monthly update was presented to the Forum in November 2005, and 
subsequently, the Board in January 2006. 


Annual Update to 31st March 2006 

2. The annual Action Plan update is at annex 1. This update also includes relevant, 
quantitative measures of output such as number of attendees on Cairngorms 
Connections Courses. In future updates, these quantitative measures will 
supplement the information from the selected set of sustainable tourism indicators 
which will be used to monitor the performance and impact of tourism with the NP. 

3. Information on partner projects that contribute to the delivery of the strategy has been 
included where available, and Members are encouraged to forward any other relevant 
detail. 

4. Forum Members are invited to highlight and discuss any of the information updates 
provided. 


Next steps 

5. The Action Plan will be updated to 31st March and any further details of partner’s 
projects or other comments from the Forum will be incorporated. The Action Plan will 
then be presented to the CNPA Board at their meeting in May 2006. 

6. It is planned to produce a short summary of the annual update to distribute to all 
tourism businesses within the Park to raise awareness about the ViSIT Forum, the 
key projects achieved to date and the continuing priorities for the forthcoming 12 
months.