Tourists

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 June 1964.

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Photo of Commander Charles Donaldson Commander Charles Donaldson , Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire and Peeblesshire 12:00, 17 June 1964

Does my right hon. Friend appreciate that one factor this year causing concern to the tourist industry and to the Tourist Board is the number of cancellations, stretching as far ahead as to the end of August, made of hotel bookings as far south as the Border following the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak? Will my right hon. Friend soon make an authoritative statement about the outbreak and the clearance of the trouble, as this affects tourists from the south of Britain considering visiting Scotland during the season?