Browse the 2025 National Finalists below.
Winners will be announced at The Scottish Thistle Awards National Final on 20th November 2025 at Hilton Glasgow.
Category | Finalists |
Best B&B or Guest House Experience | Ardtorna, Oban Clint Lodge, Melrose Derrybeg Bed & Breakfast, Pitlochry Lys-Na-Greyne, Aboyne |
Best Bar or Pub | Ardgour Ales, Fort William The Craftsman Company, Aberdeen Cross Keys Inn, Ettrickbridge The Grandtully Hotel, Grandtully The Piper Whisky Bar, Glasgow |
Best Business Event | 92nd Interpol General Assembly at the Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow The 36th International Papillomavirus Conference 2024 at the EICC, Edinburgh The IEC General Meeting hosted by BSI, Edinburgh |
Best Community Tourism & Events Initiative | Aberdeen Restaurant Weeks, Aberdeen Sanday Community Craft Hub, Orkney Solsgirth Home Farm, Dollar South Ayrshire Council, The International Ayr Show - Festival of Flight, Ayr Stranraer Oyster Festival, Stranraer |
Best Eating Experience | Elements, Glasgow Fish Shop, Ballater Killiecrankie House, Killiecrankie Ninth Wave Restaurant, Isle of Mull Wilson's Farm and Kitchen, Kelso |
Best Hotel Experience | Cameron House on Loch Lomond, Alexandria Kildrummy Inn, Alford The Murray Arms, Gatehouse of Fleet Murrayshall, Scone The Torridon, Annat |
Best Luxury Experience | Johnstons of Elgin, Elgin Knockinaam Lodge, Stranraer The House of Bruar, Perthshire Trump Turnberry, Girvan |
Best Outdoor or Adventure Experience | Bellevue Farm - Arran farm tours and experiences, Isle of Arran Islay Sea Adventures, Isle of Islay Mostly Ghostly, Thornhill Newton Farm Holidays & Tours, Forfar Tarland Trails, Tarland |
Best Self-Catering or Unique Stay | Big Sky Lodges, Muir of Ord The Bonnie Barns at Lennox of Lomond, Alexandria The Bus Stop, Haddington Loch Ken Eco Bothies, Castle Douglas Logie Newton Lodges, Huntly |
Best Visitor Attraction | Edinburgh Zoo, Edinburgh Glen Garioch Distillery, Oldmeldrum Highland Wildlife Park, Kingussie The Tall Ship Glenlee, Glasgow Trimontium Museum, Melrose |
Climate Action Award | Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums, Aberdeen Edinburgh Zoo, Edinburgh Maynes Coaches, Buckie Robert Burns Birthplace Museum - Sustainability Initiative, Ayr Wigwam Holidays Wigtown, Newton Stewart |
Employer of the Year | Auchrannie Resort, Isle of Arran The Cairndale Hotel & Spa, Dumfries Fife Arms Hotel, Braemar The Real Mary King's Close, Edinburgh The Torridon, Annat |
Inclusion Award | Camera Obscura & World of Illusions, Edinburgh DF Concerts & Events - TRNSMT Festival, Glasgow The Great Tapestry of Scotland, Galashiels |
Individual of the Year | Claire Bruce - Glen Tanar Estate, Aboyne Katrina Reynolds - Allanton Inn, Duns Paul Nixon - The Real Mary King's Close, Edinburgh Roddy MacKay - Eilean Dorcha Festival, Isle of Benbecula Sheila Gilmore - VisitArran, Isle of Arran |
Innovation Award | Glasgow Life Museums - travel trade and group experiences, Glasgow HMS Unicorn (The Unicorn Preservation Society), Dundee Trimontium Museum, Melrose WildLuing, Oban |
Outstanding Cultural Event or Festival | Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Inverness Celtic Connections, Glasgow Dumfries International Street Food Festival, Dumfries Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh Spectra, Scotland's Festival of Light, Aberdeen |
Outstanding Sporting Event | The Gralloch, Gatehouse of Fleet Tour of Britain - Scottish Borders, St Boswells World Orienteering Championships 2024, Edinburgh |
Rising Star Award | Blaine Lyons - TwinPeakes FlyFishing, Aberdeen Grace Robinson - Loch Ness Hub & Travel, Inverness Hugh Mackay - Highland Experience Tours, Edinburgh Laura Raeburn - Park Hotel (Crieff Hydro Group), Peebles Mae MacInnes - Mharsanta, Glasgow |
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