Tourism Secretary Fergus Ewing WARNINGS have been issued that Scotland’s hotel sector could be at risk of collapse after a government package of support was “heavily oversubscribed” and was only expected to help around 60 businesses. Almost 300 hotels have applied for emergency funding as part of the Scottish Government’s hotel support programme. But Tourism Secretary Fergus Ewing has confirmed that the £14 million pot of money was only intended to help around 60 hotels to cope with the economic onslaught caused by the pandemic. Scottish Labour has said that the Scottish Government has failed to grasp the scale of the crisis in Scotland’s hotels sector and risks putting thousands of jobs at risk.