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If the committee is interested, it can see the material that we used for the process online. On the committee's behalf, I thank Jim Tough and Michelle Jordan for coming to the meeting.
An estimated 9.3 per cent of the world's population are currently online, and online travel is one of the fastest growing areas of the travel industry.
That relates to the content aspect that we were discussing earlier. People in rural communities get online; voluntary sector organisations go online—but how do we provide the content and what are the reasons for it?
Efforts to extend the season are welcome and might lead to a refocusing of needs, but online training is becoming more and more important to tourism businesses.
There will be one single farm payment form to complete, and I hope that we will move towards improving our ability to accept such forms online. We will continue to reduce the level of form filling per se and increase the ease by which that can be done.
People who live in places such as Inverie, Rum or Eigg would have to take a ferry to participate in learning, unless of course they can do so online, which may be possible in some cases.
All our publications are already available on the web and, increasingly, consultations can be accessed and dealt with online. However, we can signpost them better and we can make the process of responding to them simpler.
Access through websites was mentioned earlier: during the Edinburgh festival, the number of people who booked tickets online increased greatly—more people booked online than went through the conventional horror of the queues in the Royal Mile.