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Scottish Accommodation Occupancy : a data cube slice

The Scottish Accommodation Occupancy Survey (SAOS) gathers and analyses data on occupancy levels in hotels, guest houses, B&Bs, self-catering, hostels and caravan & camping parks.

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Dimensions
Dimension
Value
Accommodation Type And Occupancy
  1. Caravan & Camping Parks - Pitch Occupancy
  2. Guest House/B&B - Bed Occupancy
  3. Guest House/B&B - Room Occupancy
  4. Hostels - Bed Occupancy
  5. Hotels - Bed Occupancy
  6. Hotels - Room Occupancy
  7. Self Catering - Unit Occupancy
Location
  1. Accessible Rural
  2. Accessible Small Towns
  3. All
  4. Large Urban Areas
  5. Other Urban Areas
  6. Remote Rural
  7. Remote Small Towns
Measure Type
  1. Percent
Reference Period
  1. 2011
  2. 2012
  3. 2013
  4. 2014
  5. 2015
  6. 2016
  7. 2017
  8. 2018
  9. 2019
  10. 2020
  11. 2021
Size Of Accommodation
  1. All
  2. Rooms: 01-03
  3. Rooms: 04-10
  4. Rooms: 11-25
  5. Rooms: 26-50
  6. Rooms: 51-100
  7. Rooms: greater than 100
Weekday/Weekend
  1. All
  2. Weekday
  3. Weekend
Reference Area
(showing types of area available in these data)
  1. Countries
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About the Dataset
Contact
Publisher
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Creator
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License
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Issued
31/08/2017
Modified
01/09/2023
Next update due
October 2023
Description

The Scottish Accommodation Occupancy Survey measures the occupancy of the serviced and non-serviced tourist accommodation sector in Scotland.

The survey is optional and therefore is a sample of the tourism accommodation sector in Scotland. Each accommodation provider fills out occupancy information on a monthly basis and results are collated annually.

Details
Confidentiality Policy

This data contains no sensitive, personal information.
Quality Management

Accommodation providers self-select the location, tariff and size of establishment as they feel appropriate. The information contained in this report has been published in good faith on the basis of information supplied to VisitScotland. VisitScotland cannot guarantee the accuracy of information in this report and accept no responsibility for any error or misrepresentation. All liability for loss, disappointment, negligence or other damage caused by reliance on the information contained in this report or for any other reason is hereby excluded.
Accuracy and Reliability

The accuracy and reliability of the data depend on the number of survey participants and the correct interpretation of the Scottish Government's 2013-2014 Urban Rural Classification. This divides geographic locations across Scotland in six categories:

Large Urban Areas (settlements of over 125,000 people); Other Urban Areas (settlements of 10,000 to 124,999 people); Accessible Small Towns (settlements of 3,000 to 9,999 people and within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10,000 or more); Remote Small Towns (settlements of 3,000 to 9,999 people and with a drive time of over 30 minutes to a settlement of 10,000 or more); Accessible Rural (settlements of less than 3,000 people and within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10,000 or more); Remote Rural (settlements of less than 3,000 people and with a drive time of over 30 minutes to a settlement of 10,000 or more).

Any discrepancies between weekday/weekend and total occupancy rates are due to not all accommodation providers submitting weekday/weekend data.

An asterisk (*) denotes low sample size which makes figures much less reliable.
Coherence and Comparability

SAOS is a voluntary monthly survey and participation of accommodation providers varies across type and time. For this reason, the survey provides only occupancy rate data (expressed in percentages) which can be more reliably compared across years.
Accessibility and Clarity

This data and summary report are also available from VisitScotland.
Relevance

Accommodation statistics are a key part of the system of tourism statistics in the EU. Data is collected by national authorities of the Member States and are compiled according to a harmonised methodology established by EU regulations before transmission to Eurostat.
Timeliness and Punctuality

This data is updated annually.
Revisions

This data is not routinely revised.
URI

This slice of multidimensional data is not a Linked Data resource in the database: it's a virtual resource (i.e. you can't query it by SPARQL). But does have a permanent unique URL which can be bookmarked.

https://statistics.gov.scot/slice?dataset=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fdata%2Fscottish-accommodation-occupancy&http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Flinked-data%2Fsdmx%2F2009%2Fdimension%23refPeriod=http%3A%2F%2Freference.data.gov.uk%2Fid%2Fyear%2F2012&http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fdef%2Fdimension%2Flocation=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fdef%2Fconcept%2Flocation%2Faccessible-rural
Dimensions Linked Data

A linked data-orientated view of dimensions and values

Dimension Locked Value
Reference Period
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refPeriod
 2012
http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/year/2012
Location
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/location
 Accessible Rural
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/concept/location/accessible-rural
Accommodation Type And Occupancy
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/accommodationTypeAndOccupancy
 (not locked to a value)
Reference Area
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refArea
 (not locked to a value)
Size Of Accommodation
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/sizeOfAccommodation
 (not locked to a value)
Weekday/Weekend
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/weekday/weekend
 (not locked to a value)
Measure Type
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#measureType
 (not locked to a value)