SCOTLAND'S
h o t e l
h o n o u r s
2026 ~ 2027
H I G H L I G H T S F R O M L A S T A W A R D S F I N A L E
Lots of lovely pictures in 4 galleries on
➦Facebook
23rd National Awards for
Scotland's Hotels, Staff and Leadership
23mh Duaisean Nàiseanta
Taigh-òsta, Luchd-obrach & Ceannardas na h-Alba
W E L C O M E
Scotland's Minister for Tourism at 2025 Awards:
➦Richard Lochhead MSP
"It's a privilege to join so many hotel businesses from all parts of Scotland at the prestigious Hotels of the Year awards. You represent the best of Scotland, the best of excellence and experience."
S E A S O N 2 0 2 6 / 2 7
Hotels of the Year® Scotland
presents the uniquely comprehensive national Hotel Honours™ for achievement and distinction over two events in 2026 and three in '27 as we continue partnering
➦ScotHot
and the
➦Scottish Tourism Alliance.
J U N E
Discover first
➦Finalists
for the
2026 National Hotel of the Year Scotland
title, plus the latest with how the other
Hotel, People & Industry Categories
will be presented at the two awards events.
Finalist Certificates are now being posted and presented.
H O T E L G U I D E R E T U R N S
& G O L D W E L C O M E P L A Q U E S
25 years after we first launched a hotel review guide, the elegant new
Scottish Hotels of the Year Guide
site / app will be unveiled in July and fully operational later this season. As we deepen our support for Scots hotels, the comprehensive guide integrates beautifully with both the Awards programme and gorgeous new
➦Gold Welcome Plaques™
with their prestigious, descriptive format.
E X P A N D E D E X P E R T I S E
Our growing
Presiding Team
draws on a wide range of sectors and leadership knowledge, in a process that will deepen understanding and judgement - to empower the Awards' accuracy and forthcoming consumer guide.
➦Info Hub
➦Facebook Galleries
➦NEW!
Gold Welcome Plaques™
#HOTYS are
fully-researched, with 25 years' commitment to hospitality to draw upon. They're founded on observation over years, informed by mystery visits, BestShot™ visits, interviews, expert advice and guest feedback analysis. We've a deep appreciation of our industry's remarkable, storied people and, by shining a light on the inspirational, help to show how we can all win.
➦PEOPLE Nomination
➦HOTEL Nomination
Wishing you a great season!
Gary McLean Quin | Chairman
William Gorol | President
David Welch | Senior Vice-President
Lady Claire Macdonald OBE | Patron
P R E M I E R 2 0 2 6 S P O N S O R
F I N A L I S T S 2 0 2 6
National Scottish Hotel of the Year 2026
➦Live Updates
2 0 2 6 L O G O S & B A D G E S
Examples of new 2026 WINNER Badges
S H O W O F F Y O U R S U C C E S S
*Logos to download | Use guidelines | Copyright policy
*Trophies: Upgrade your achievement | Replace
*Medals, Certificates: Replace | Enhance
➦Logos, Trophies & more
ALL GO FOR '26
TOP EVENTS | NEW SITE | GOLD PLAQUES
DIARY - JUNE 2026
The 2026/27 Awards Season
will feature many inspirational honours celebrated across the years' events ~ when we will recognise, in style, our leading people in all departments.
EXCITING GUEST SITE NEWS
Our new consumer site
Scottish Hotels of the Year Guide
will be at the snappy domain
best.scot soon and we'll reveal details and launch the programme in July. It'll
include all best Scottish hotels - a fab resource leading with ideas, curated
BestList™ search results, hotel reviews / features, HOTYS awards (and other genuine awards), hot links to hotels' own offers / booking system with incentives - and more.
PRIME Members have a PowerPage on it, plus links on
this site - and get a Gold Welcome Plaque... nice to have now VisitScotland has ended their QA stars.
SOCIALS / #HOTYS26
F A C E B O O K
➦National Hotels of the Year - Scotland
X
➦@HotelsOfTheYear
I N S T A G R A M
➦@hotelsoftheyear.scot
ALL YEAR ROUND
WE'LL SUPPORT SCOTTISH HOTELS
We do love a
BIG RED CARPET NIGHT
The most prestigious of Scottish hotel awards will be held again this year as we celebrate 23 years.
National Hotels of the Year®
presents Scotland's Hotel Honours™ with passion, precision and glamour at events on 25th October. Prior to that we have a delightful Summer Presentation and press launch of the new awards guide.
THIS SUMMER
GOLD WELCOME PLAQUES™ PRESENTATIONS
HOTYS 2026 FIRST REGIONAL WINNERS
THE NEW GUIDE IS REVEALED
The
Hotel Gold Welcome Plaques™ scheme has been refined in one last step which integrates better with the exciting new Scottish Hotels of the Year Guide site. We've released first
Finalists for the top National Hotel of the Year® Scotland 2026 title
-
and are now listing
all other Categories
at each event's separate page.
PRIME TIME
Upgrade your participation!
ENHANCED MEMBER SCHEME
PRIME Membership is now available for season 2026. It includes the awards scheme, the consumer guide and the new Hotel Gold Welcome Plaques.
23 YEARS ON
RESEARCH | INTEGRITY | EXPERTISE
NEW APPOINTMENTS
Meet the expanded 2026
➦HOTYS Team
We welcomed
Toby Wand, MD of ScotHot and also 365 Events - who run The National Chef of the Year for the Craft Guild of Chefs, largest chef competition in UK;
Marc Crothall MBE, dynamic, diplomatic CEO of the Scottish Tourism Alliance; and entrepreneur / force of nature
William Gorol, MD of
triSaaS - twice Queen's Award for Enterprise-winner, marathon runner, ex-Chair of Social Bite, our new President... and, two decades ago, our first Scottish Hotel Manager of the Year! A bigger Presiding Team of Experts & more Peer Judges are in place although as you know, we can't list everyone in advance as we need to be a bit undercover at times!
THANK YOU!
We've long supported
➦HIT Scotland - and thank guests for raising £3K in 2025. Here's to more in '26! Additionally,
➦Hospitality Health Scotland has our full support this year.
TWO HELPFUL FACEBOOK GROUPS
We're please to organise:
➦Scottish Hotels Support Group
