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VisitScotland, the official Scottish tourism board is an executive non-departmental public institution of the Scottish Government, with offices in London, Edinburgh and Inverness, as well as other locations in Scotland. It functions together with VisitBritain, an organisation with a similar remit for Great Britain as a whole.

VisitScotland brought VisitScotland.com, a public-private partnership, back into public ownership in 2008.

One of the organisation's tasks is increasing inbound tourism to Scotland, which it does through creative content, advertising and promotional campaigns detailing what Scotland has to offer for leisure or business travelers.

VisitScotland also partners with different companies in the tourism industry in Scotland to help maintain standards in tourist attractions and accommodation, which it does through its quality grading system. VisitScotland works with its industry partners on area tourism partnership agreements and also runs the Thistle Awards, which are awarded to the best tourism businesses each year.

One aspect of VisitScotland's work is managing a network of websites featuring a variety of travel interest and holiday activity themes. These include golf, walking, cycling, city adventures, ancestral, ski scotland and wildlife.