Supported by: Miles Briggs*, Jeremy Balfour*, Colin Beattie* *S5M-09436 Kate Forbes: Sustainable Tourism Award for Cairngorms National Park That — the Parliament congratulates the Cairngorms National Park on being awarded, for a third time, the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas from the Europarc Federation; notes that the three-day verification visit took place in June 2017 by specialists from Spain and Latvia; understands that these experts were particularly impressed with the Cairngorms marketing ’ strategy, visitor flows and involvement with local communities; welcomes the news that there were almost two million tourism visits to the Cairngorms in 2016, with the economic value of tourism being recorded as over £250 million, and applauds the Cairngorms National Park for being the only accredited sustainable destination in Scotland under this scheme.