Abstract
This paper seeks briefly to explore some of the major policy issues relating to tourism‐related transport in Scotland, with particular reference to stated policy objectives of sustainability. Sustainability issues are often in the forefront of academic, and to some extent public, discussion, in both the transport and tourism policy arenas. Yet only limited synergy or complementarity seems to have been achieved between the transport and tourism debates on such issues of common concern as the impacts of transport externality costs borne by host populations and environments in tourism destination areas.