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Hotel PR is a specialist public relations consultancy for hotels, guest houses, serviced apartments and restaurants.

Established in 2001, it has represented clients from Orkney to the Cotswolds.

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“Hotel PR have generated a steady flow of great reviews from food writers, making guests more aware of our restaurants and broadening our appeal. Scott and Julia are proven hospitality industry specialists, creative, fast moving and reliable, with a knack of getting results and a keen eye for promotional opportunities outside the media as well”

Nav Basi, Owner, The Dhabba and Dakhin Restaurants, Glasgow

“Hotel PR were instrumental in winning our first (hopefully of many!) award and played a key role in raising our profile at both local and national levels. Scott and Julia’s contacts and experience in the industry are second to none and they were able to create a real point of focus for our marketing strategy”

Jacqueline Nisbet, co-owner, Bennet’s Bar/La Petite Mort restaurant, Edinburgh

Pub Excellence Winner, Catering in Scotland (CIS) Awards 2017

“Scott and Julia have been crucial for the launch of the Douglas Hotel. They have been a wealth of knowledge and contacts but more than that have been friendly, down to earth and genuinely feel like part of our team. We would recommend them without hesitation”

Elaine Campbell, General Manager, The Douglas Hotel, Arran

Scotland’s Independent Hotel of the Year 2018

“Their professionalism, integrity and performance have always been of the highest order”

Ken Lockley, Commercial Director

Moness Resort, Aberfeldy

“Fantastic communicators, speedy and efficient. We always feel like we have Hotel PR’s undivided attention and, most importantly, they bring results”

Hannah Walker, Ardanaiseig

PR & Marketing Manager

“Hotel PR have a wealth of experience and in-depth knowledge of our industry. They are pro-active, persistent and work rapidly. I recommend them”

Anne Gracie, Winner of Best Independent Hotel 2015

Co-owner, Duisdale, Toravaig and Skeabost House Hotels, Skye

“Hotel PR continually exceed the brief I gave them. They’re hardworking, successful and creative, with great media insight as well as a firm grasp on my business objectives. Highly recommended”

Colin Stone, Commercial Director, Mansley Serviced Apartments (London, Cheltenham, Edinburgh and Inverness)

2017 Best UK Hotel for Customer Service, trivago

“I cannot recommend them highly enough. They were great – far beyond our expectations. Hotel PR are efficient, transparent and really know the industry”

Rachel Conway, Field Restaurant, Edinburgh

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Scottish hospitality to honour its Coronavirus lockdown heroes

Scotland’s hospitality industry is to honour operators who rose to the challenges of the pandemic lockdown.

The CIS Excellence Awards - the country’s leading competition for the hospitality, catering and tourism sectors - is introducing three categories to recognise businesses and individuals who innovated, collaborated with others or helped local communities between March and July.

“From mid-March until the Government allowed them to re-open, hospitality operators all over Scotland were faced with some of the toughest challenges they have ever encountered,” said Andrea Nicholas, Chair of the CIS Awards Advisory Board.

“Many saw an opportunity to help others, either by joining forces, adapting products and services or offering their premises and staff to assist those who needed it most during the crisis.”

The Innovation Award is aimed at companies and individuals who created an innovative product or service as a direct result of Coronavirus which has had a positive effect on staff, customers, clients and/or the local population or general public. The Collaboration category will reward co-operation which improved a product or service, or been of greatest help to customers. The Social and Community Award is for the best support for a local community during lockdown.

In further boosts for the sector, the CIS Awards’ organisers also announced that judging of its 2020 Awards will go ahead, with the presentation ceremony and dinner scheduled for next February, and that its 2021 Awards will be judged in the Spring and presented next Autumn.

Entries for this year’s awards should be submitted by 3rd September. For more information, see cis-excellenceawards.com, email nominations@cis-excellenceawards.com or phone 0800 130 3731.

Apart from the three new awards, there are 17 other categories including those for hotels, restaurants, pubs, chefs, hospitality educators, staff retention, sustainable businesses, healthy eating and food tourism.