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Visit Scotland | Alba

Situated on Europe’s Atlantic Edge, are the inter-connected, but charmingly unique islands of the Outer Hebrides. With magnificent and untouched white sandy beaches and a distinctly preserved island culture, visitors to these islands will be pining for more.

Find out more about the region’s tourism industry with this comprehensive selection of research and insights we’ve put together for you.

Outer Hebrides Islands Visitor Survey 2017

Published March 2018

Fast facts

219 thousand

visits

£65m

spend

42%

first time visitors

*figures taken from Outer Hebrides Islands Visitor Survey 2017

Outer Hebrides Islands Visitor Survey 2017 - executive summary

Published March 2018

Notes on interpretation of Island Visitor Survey 2017

Published March 2018

Scotland Visitor Survey 2015 and 2016 - Outer Hebrides summary

Published April 2017

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