Scottish Hotel Awards honours Chief Executive

At a glittering ceremony held at Prestonfield on Sunday evening, Jeremy Hawkings, Chief Executive of Connoisseurs Scotland was awarded the Fellowship for Outstanding Industry Contribution  2010 by Lord Macdonald of Macdonald at  The 2010 Scottish Hotel Awards.

Other winners were Prestonfield  and Inverlochy Castle Management International who gathered an impressive collection of awards, including Hotel Management Company of the Year and Luxury Hotel of the Year for Inverlochy Castle.

Connoisseurs Scotland at EXPO

Luxury Scotland members were out in force at the annual Scotland EXPO held last week at the SECC in Glasgow. The sun shone and the travel trade showed great interest in our stand. I had an appointment packed two days with over 20 appointments each day with travel agents from all over Europe and many from the US and Canada. The amount of interest in our hotels, the Royal Scotsman train and the Hebridean Princess was phenomenal. A very busy and positive two days – hard work but very exciting.

Visit to Crinan

The west coast of Scotland is one of my favourite places, wide open roads, wonderful scenery and so easily accessible.

The view shows snow on the mountains on Mull taken on my most recent visit to Crinan Hotel.
Jeremy