The forecast – based on a near- tripling of hospitality industry jobs in Edinburgh, from 12,000 in 1989 to 32,000 now – is matched by a target to increase the number of visits to Edinburgh from 3.27 million to 4.39 million over the next eight years.
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Tourism initiative promises 8000 extra Edinburgh jobs
A THOUSAND jobs a year are to be created in Scotland's capital city by 2020 in a push that is expected to lay the template for the expansion of the tourism sector across the country.
