How it promotes the space (a) tourism sector and (b) research industries.

The Scottish Government is very proud, and very supportive of both the growing space sector, and our vitally important tourism sector.
Innovation in tourism is key to ensuring that this important sector of the economy remains relevant and competitive. The development of potential spaceports in Scotland would not only emphasise Scotland's cutting edge technological reputation, but increase the number of inbound tourists to Scotland who would subsequently embark on spare tourism flights.
Business events related to space are an excellent means to showcase Scotland as a place to invest, study, live, work and visit
- and to encourage repeat visits. As well as delivering direct economic impact (through delegate and venue expenditure), business events represent exceptional opportunities to build worldwide links and networks for the key industry sectors in Scotland, including space related industries.
The Scottish Government was delighted by the decision to create the Scottish Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications, as part of the Satellite Applications Catapult, at the Technology and Innovation Centre at Strathclyde University. We continue to give our support to other clusters of research excellence in the space sector, including STARDundee at the University of Dundee and the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh.
As well as this, the Scottish Government, through the enterprise agencies, promotes and supports the more than 120 companies operating in the space sector in Scotland. Scotland accounts for 18% of UK employment in the space sector, in other words nearly one in five UK Space jobs are in Scotland and we have ambition to grow the sector further.