For over 25 years the Scottish Thistle Awards have been honouring individuals, businesses, partnerships and events for their innovation, excellence and success in the tourism and hospitality sector. The awards aim to celebrate and inspire industry on the journey from good to great to world class whilst shining the light on excellence in their categories.
To find out more about the awards and how you can take part, visit our How the Awards Work page.
The awards are funded and delivered by VisitScotland and supported by an industry panel.
The Scottish Thistle Awards Industry Panel is a panel of representatives from across a number of sectors within Scotland’s diverse tourism industry and chaired by a VisitScotland Board member. Each member of the Panel represents the views of their sector or organisation and provides strategic advice and support to VisitScotland helping to shape the awards programme year on year.
Visit our Industry Panel page below to find out more about each of the current representatives.
The Scottish Thistle Awards is based on 5 regional programmes, each of which concludes with winners being announced at a regional awards ceremony. The winners of each of the regional programmes then progress to the National Final to represent their region at a national level.
Since
2015, the Scottish Thistle Awards have partnered with Aberdeen City &
Shire Tourism Awards (ACSTA) and Highland & Island Tourism Awards
(HITA), working together alongside the Industry Panel, to develop the regional programmes - aligning categories,
judging criteria and schedules among other aspects - with the delivery of each of the programmes and awards ceremonies managed
independently at a regional level.
This regional programme is delivered by the Aberdeen City & Shire Tourism Awards – official partners of the Scottish Thistle Awards. Find out more about ACSTA here.
The region covers the following local authority areas:
Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City.
This regional programme is delivered by the Scottish Thistle Awards.
The region covers the following local authority areas:
Angus, Clackmannanshire, Dundee City, Falkirk, Fife, Perth & Kinross and Stirling.
This regional programme is delivered by the Highlands & Islands Tourism Awards – official partners of the Scottish Thistle Awards. Find out more about HITA here.
The region covers the following local authority areas:
Argyll & Bute (excluding G postcode areas), Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Highland, Moray, Orkney and Shetland.
This regional programme is delivered by the Scottish Thistle Awards.
The region covers the following local authority areas:
Scottish Borders, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian and Edinburgh City.
This regional programme is delivered by the Scottish Thistle Awards.
The region covers the following local authority areas:
Argyll & Bute (G postcodes only), Dumfries & Galloway, Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire.
CONTACT US
Scottish Thistle Awards
c/o VisitScotland
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0131 472 2288
info@scottishthistleawards.co.uk
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