Browse the 2024 National-only Finalists below.
Winners will be announced at The Scottish Thistle Awards National Final on 21st November 2024 at Hilton Glasgow.
| Category | Finalists |
Best B&B or Guest House Experience | Derrybeg Bed & Breakfast, Pitlochry Dumfries House Lodges (The Kings Foundation), Cumnock Glenegedale House, Isle of Islay No 45, Ballater Queensberry House B&B, Moffat |
Best Bar or Pub | The Barrelman, Dundee The Cross Keys Inn, Ettrickbridge Harbour Bar, Gourdon RED Sky Bar, Glasgow The Station Bar, Alness |
Best Business Event | Business Events Shaping Tomorrow 'BEST' Business Event - ACNAP 2023, Edinburgh University of Aberdeen - CPD & Event Services Women on Top Scotland, delivered by egg, Edinburgh |
Best Eating Experience | Ballintaggart, Pitlochry The Dipping Lugger, Ullapool Douneside House, Aboyne The Globe Inn, Dumfries |
Best Hotel Experience | Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa, Dundee Glenapp Castle, Ballantrae The Kildrummy Inn, by Alford Ness Walk, Inverness The Ship Inn Hotel, Gatehouse of Fleet |
Best Luxury Experience | The Hideaway Experience, Auchterhouse Knockinaam Lodge Hotel, Stranraer The Old Manse of Blair, Blair Atholl Trump Turnberry, Girvan |
Best Outdoor or Adventure Experience | Blackstone Clydesdales, Cumnock Mostly Ghostly, Thornhill Nevis Range, Torlundy Newton Farm Holidays & Tours, Forfar TwinPeakes Fly Fishing Ltd, Banchory |
Best Self-Catering or Unique Stay | The Boathouse at Littlemill, Isle of Arran The Bus Stop, Haddington Cowden Farm Holidays, Stonehaven Kabn, Loch Fyne The Outdoor Hotel, Dumfries |
Best Visitor Attraction | Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow The Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen Gretna Green Famous Blacksmiths Shop, Gretna Green Landmark Forest Adventure Park, Carrbridge The Scotch Whisky Experience, Edinburgh |
Celebrating Thriving Communities | All Roads Lead to Whithorn, Whithorn The Enchanted Forest Community Trust, Pitlochry Friends of Dundonald Castle SCIO, Dundonald Loch Ness Hub and Travel, Drumnadrochit We Too!, Aberdeen |
Climate Action Award | The Bay Fish and Chips, Stonehaven Camera Obscura & World of Illusions, Edinburgh Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow Glen Mhor Hotel & Uile-Bheist Distillery and Brewery, Inverness |
Inclusive Tourism Award | Farm Stop, Portlethen Girls on Hills, Glencoe Homelands Trust-Fife, Lundin Links Trimontium Museum, Melrose |
Innovation in Tourism | The Hickory Golf Workshop, Largowood Little's Chauffeur Drive, Glasgow Loch Ness Hub and Travel, Drumnadrochit Northern Frights, Portlethen |
Outstanding Cultural Event or Festival | Clan Cancer Support's The Big Hop Trail, Aberdeen Edinburgh’s Hogmanay – 30th Anniversary Celebrations, Edinburgh Eilean Dorcha Festival, Isle of Benbecula Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Wigtown Book Festival, Wigtown |
Outstanding Sporting Event | Beatson's Building Supplies Mull Rally 2023, Isle of Mull Le Gruyère AOP European Curling Championships 2023 in Curl Aberdeen, Aberdeen World Athletics Indoor Championships, Glasgow |
Rising Star Award | Aedan Doig - Loch Fyne Hotel & Spa Annika Schneider, The Scotch Whisky Experience Ellie Gray, The Chester Hotel Hannah Cochrane, Scottish Event Campus Thania Meneses Flores, Trimontium Museum |
Tourism & Hospitality Employer of the Year | Camera Obscura & World of Illusions, Edinburgh The Fife Arms Hotel, Braemar The Pierhouse Hotel, Port Appin SEA LIFE Loch Lomond, Alexandria |
Tourism Individual of the Year | Alison Christie, Leonardo Hotels Amanda Wrathall, Edinburgh International Conference Centre Fiona Campbell, Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers Kirsty Archer-Thompson, The Abbotsford Trust Russell Fraser, Loch Ness Hub and Travel |
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