Regional Awards Guide

If your business is based in the following local authority areas, you can enter the Highlands and Islands Thistle Awards programme:

  • Argyll & Bute (excluding G postcode areas)

  • Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

  • Highland

  • Moray

  • Orkney & Shetland

For more information, please contact us.

You can enter more than one region if your business operates in more than one region.  You must complete an entry form for each region you are entering.

There are other regional tourism awards available:

  • Delivered by Aberdeen City and Shire Thistle Awards, this region covers the following local authority areas:

    • Aberdeen City

    • Aberdeenshire

    Click here for more information on the Aberdeen City and Shire Awards.

  • Delivered by VisitScotland, this region covers the following local authority areas:

    • Angus

    • Clackmannanshire

    • Dundee City

    • East Lothian

    • Edinburgh City

    • Falkirk

    • Fife

    • Midlothian

    • Perth & Kinross

    • Stirling

    • West Lothian

    Click here for more information.

  • Delivered by VisitScotland, this region covers the following local authority areas:

    • Argyll & Bute (G postcodes only)

    • Arran

    • Glasgow City

    • Renfrewshire

    • East Renfrewshire

    • Inverclyde

    • North Lanarkshire

    • South Lanarkshire

    • East Ayrshire

    • North Ayrshire

    • South Ayrshire

    • East Dunbartonshire

    • West Dunbartonshire

    Click here for more information.

  • Delivered by South of Scotland Destination Alliance and supported by South of Scotland Enterprise, this region covers the following local authority areas:

    • Dumfries & Galloway

    • Scottish Borders

    Click here for more information.

For more information on the above awards programmes, please visit www.scottishthistleawards.com