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though less obvious, is quite as important as the direct benefit. In every 

 country district, both in Britain and on the Continent, the importance 

 of the summer visitor is recognised, and every encouragement is given 

 to the tourist traffic. Railway companies offer special inducements, dlstricts - 

 hotels and lodgings spring into existence to meet the increased demand for 

 accommodation, while landed proprietors and local governing bodies vie with 

 one another to increase the amenity of their respective neighbourhoods with a 

 view to attract the holiday crowd. Tradesmen, job-masters, proprietors, and 

 even local charities, learn to regard the tourist as an important source of income. 

 The value of the shooting tenant from this point of view is not so generally 

 recognised, yet in the long run he certainly brings more money into the country 

 districts than the tourist. To begin with, he usually belongs to a wealthier class 

 than the average tourist, and his requirements are correspondingly greater. He 

 brings with him indoor and outdoor servants, so that a remote shooting lodge 

 may often contain as many occupants as a hotel in a tourist centre. But 

 the principal merit of the shooting tenant is his wide distribution. Many people 

 hardly realise that the regular tourist traffic is confined to a small space along 

 the principal lines of communication and within easy reach of the necessities 

 and comforts of civilisation. In Scotland especially only a very small area is 

 materially affected by tourists and, though the motor car has opened up a 

 number of remote districts where strangers were seldom seen before, these 

 passing visitors are of no benefit to the community until they arrive again 

 at a halting-place upon the beaten track. The shooting tenant, on the other 

 hand, looks for his sport as far as possible from the main tourist routes, and 

 usually at some distance from the centres of population : thus the area which 

 has not been invaded by the tourist is occupied by the sportsman, and neither 

 class interferes with the interests of the other. 



Many shooting tenants have endeavoured to calculate the indirect expense 

 connected with taking a Grouse moor in Scotland, and the result of their 

 combined experience seems to be that for every pound spent in rent from 

 15s. to 1 is spent on other expenses connected with the undertaking. In 

 the recent work already referred to the indirect expenses are reckoned as 

 equal to the rent. 1 Under this heading railway travelling, carriage of goods, 

 cartridges, extra wages, dogs, household supplies, hiring and entertaining may 

 be included. 



1 " Grouse and Grouse Moors," pp. 28-29. 

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