{"id":2542,"date":"2025-05-06T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/whisky-has-sparked-population-boom-on-remote-scottish-islands\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:05:10","slug":"whisky-has-sparked-population-boom-on-remote-scottish-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/whisky-has-sparked-population-boom-on-remote-scottish-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Whisky has sparked population boom on remote Scottish islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-06 15:05:09<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Whisky has been credited for increasing the population of remote islands in Scotland.<BR><br \/>\nA wave of new jobs creating the liquor is thought to be the primary reason behind a population boom in the Highlands, with thriving tourism and remote working also contributing factors.<BR><br \/>\nThe peaceful lifestyle on the islands has convinced many temporary workers to stay permanently and the population has increased by 13 per cent compared to 20 years ago.<BR><br \/>\nNew distilleries on Islay and outposts on the remote islands of Raasay and Benbecula have created hundreds of jobs providing year-round employment rather than just seasonal work.<BR><br \/>\nThe Isle of Skye is at the heart of the population boom &#8211; with a 40 per cent rise since 2011 &#8211; as the area&#8217;s Mossburn Distillers have converted a derelict farmhouse into their distillery and visitor centre.<BR><br \/>\nIona Fraser, who works there and has bought a home on the isle, told the Daily Star newspaper: &#8220;The job has also given me pride in actually having a career, rather than just kind of milling about with any job that came your way.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-06 15:05:09 Whisky has been credited for increasing the population of remote islands in Scotland. A wave of new jobs creating the liquor is thought to be the primary reason&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}