(c) Visit Scotland
More measurable than spend, the number of tourists visiting Scotland in 2017, increased by 17% while for the UK, as a whole, it only increased by 1%. However, according to Office for National Statistics (OSN) data released yesterday, tourist spending in Scotland increased by a whopping 23% while in the UK, it fell by 1%.
I’m not a mathematician (no, really, I’m not) so can that even be expressed as a ratio or am I correct in saying it’s just infinitely more in Scotland?
This has been happening since well before 2017 with several reasons offered. See these earlier pieces for more:
Scottish tourism growth outpaces that in UK
Whisky tourism boom expected to add to record year for Scottish tourism in 2018
Glasgow wins two first places in global tourism awards and comes 4th out of 50!
‘Scotland enjoys tourism boost thanks to interest in Gaelic’
North Americans lead surge in Scottish tourism because they feel safer here
Far from Teed Off: Golf tourism ‘drives Scottish economy’…..a bit
17% increase in visits to Scotland’s historic attractions with massive Outlander effect
414% increase in Chinese tourist spending since 2007!
Outlander has sparked recruitment boom in Highlands
‘Glasgow named top convention spot for a record 12th year in a row’
Talking-up Scotland 
Of course your headline is crap and your arithmetic in this case is piss-poor ……. but, of course, that is the point. You have produced the kind of headline that appears almost everyday in our newspapers and on TV and radio.
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More detail on the piss-poor arithmetic?
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Haha, Alasdair’s assessment is brutal but quite accurate I think! Including this is what we get from the normal media outlets, so good for you putting the spin full-on! If we just continually put nice factual reporting out there, we will never balance the extremes of MSM reportage, they manipulate and spin and cry out that it is real, but it is only real in their own narrow mindset of how to make numbers look how they want it to look. So to take the other extreme to balance the books is valid, and will likely make people think harder about what they are being told.
Infinity, I believe, is a mathematical concept, which has rules, and it may be frowned upon to use it in a statistical setting, which might not involve the use of infinity: comparing a negative with a positive will be unlikely to result in infinity without careful manipulation: Please don’t start dividing by zero and stuff, I’ll accept the social concept of infinity as valid, we don’t need the detail, honestly.
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