D O N' T M I S S O U T T H I S
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Membership season 2013
Scotland's unique hotel and hospitality awards
“The flagship awards for the Scottish hotel industry” - First Minister
Make sure you, your hotel and people have the advantage and pleasure of being part
of the Scottish Hotel Awards’ year-round process. Attend the famous Awards Night
Party as a nominee, perhaps. Be included in the all-new Gold Guide to Scottish Hotels 2013 and in editorial in Scotland Magazine. Together with a new
Scottish hotel feedback website, the awards scheme is expanding in 2013.
The 10th annual 'Scottish hotel Oscars' (-The Herald) will be held on Sunday April 28th 2013. They are "Scotland's flagship hotel awards", said First Minister who
has presented the top awards. The official awards website has operated since 2003
and has been revamped for 2013. The guide website, launched when the Tourism Minister
presented the first reception plaque, is being redesigned this summer as a fully-integrated
Scottish hotel feedback and year-round voting and guide site. It will be re-launched
shortly as the Scottish Hotel Awards Feedback hotel guide.
Below is information on joining the scheme. If you would like to discuss things
first from a judging / editorial / assessment perspective, please e-mail the scheme Chairman, Gary McLean-Quin, who will be pleased to hear
from you.
B E N E F I T S
Standard Membership Benefits
- Enter and take full advantage of The Scottish Hotel Awards Scheme
- Work towards you / your hotel / key individuals / your team being nominated
- Opportunity to be a nominee at the annual Awards Night Party – the ‘Scottish hotel
Oscars’
- A full overnight DBB research and judging visit will be arranged with you:
- We allow generous time to get to know you and your priorities in detail
- Informal visits and judging / peer review visits as required, by arrangement
- If we can assist generally with advice, pointers or introductions, we’ll do all
we can
- Judges and Membership Support are always personally available to you
- Entry on The Scottish Hotel Awards Feedback site (www.scottishhotelguide.com):
- Large photos, judges’ notes, feedback form, voting button, link to your site, map
- Unique, continuous monitoring by judges of your feedback over the year
- Button for your own site showing you are in the awards scheme, encouraging feedback
- Official certificate to show you are a member of The Scottish Hotel Awards Scheme
PLUS new benefits for all Standard and Premium Members for the 2013 season
- Half page of editorial in the new Scottish Hotel Awards annual Gold Guide
to Scottish Hotels distributed worldwide with Scotland Magazine and at selected national
/ international events and via many member hotels by arrangement – including yours
- Listing in every issue of Scotland Magazine’s Scottish Hotel Awards Hotel Directory
- Listing on Scotland Magazine’s site www.scotlandmag.com with your entry featuring the Scottish Hotel Awards logo
linking to your site
- Promotion on the dedicated Scottish Hotel Awards stands at Whisky Live London, Whisky
Luxe Edinburgh and Whisky Live Dublin
NEW Premium Membership
As for the Standard Membership (above) with these extra benefits specially negotiated
for 2013 to bring the maximum range and value of benefits to Premium Members:
- Additional editorial coverage in Scotland Magazine in the regular Scottish
Hotel Awards double-page spread feature highlighting the best of Scottish hotels
and hospitality
- Complementary full page colour advertisement in the new annual Scottish Hotel
Awards Gold Guide to Scottish Hotels 2013 (worth £795) additional to half-page editorial
- Extra support via guaranteed strategy-planning visit from Chairman of Judges
- Free magazines: copies of Scotland Magazine (worth £3.95 per copy) for every
guest room (worth £150 to £800pa depending on room numbers)
- Upgrade tickets to VIP: your Awards Night Standard tickets to VIP tickets at no cost (worth £50
per standard ticket / £600 off table of 12)
Plus, all members now have the right to:
- Advertise in Scotland Magazine at 50% discount
- Advertise on Scotland Magazine’s web site (scotlandmag.com)
at 50% discount
- Advertise in the Scottish Hotel Awards Little Gold Book of Winning Hotels at preferential
member rates
- Purchase copies of Scotland Magazine at £1.50 per copy (regular price £3.95)
Annual Membership Fees 2013
|
Band |
Establishment |
Standard
|
Premium |
|
A |
Guest house / B&B |
£249pa |
£399pa |
|
B |
Small hotel (up to 25 rooms) |
£349pa |
£599pa |
|
C |
Medium hotel (26 to 40 rooms) |
£449pa |
£749pa |
|
D |
Medium / Larger hotel (41 to 100 rooms) |
£549pa |
£899pa |
|
E |
Large hotel (over 100 rooms) |
£699pa |
£1099pa |
- For certain establishment types such as exclusive use venues, serviced apartments
and aparthotels we will be pleased to work out with you in which band you sit
- The above are guidelines and for fairness we agree the band with you subject to
a balance between the number of rooms, tariff and seasonality of your hotel
- For hotel groups / chains / management clusters, we will be happy to discuss group
rates
Contact
For further details on any membership option please contact our Membership Sales
Manager Joanne Robertson on 01603 633 808 or email joanne@paragraphpublishing.com
"From when I began working with Haymarket Publications in the 1990s, I have been
involved with magazines and websites dedicated to the Hotel, Food and Drinks industries.
These included Wine & Spirit International and Travel Retail magazine, and for the
last ten years after moving to Paragraph Publishing I headed up the advertising
sales and promotions for Whisky Magazine and Scotland Magazine. Hotels in Scotland
have played a huge part in both the editorial and advertising of these magazines
and I am familiar with many of the hotels that I am looking forward to working with
for the Scottish Hotel Awards Scheme."
Membership of the awards is annually renewing and the fee on joining is for one
year. To cancel, please note the Terms & Conditions policy of 3 months’ notice before
the expiry of your membership. If a hotel cancels on receipt of a renewal invoice
(i.e. without giving notice) then a cancellation fee equivalent to 6 months’ membership
fee will be charged. This is because we will already have been working on the following
year’s participation for the hotel awards. Taking out Membership is an acceptance
of this condition, which we hope you will understand as a matter of fairness to
all Members to enable us to forward plan.