The Douglas Hotel has been shortlisted in the particularly competitive independent hotel of the year category at this year’s Catering Scotland Excellence (CIS) Awards.
The Brodick hotel faces competition from Dunstane Houses in Edinburgh and the Lovat Loch Ness, which is built on the site of a Hanoverian fort erected to pacify the Highland clans after the 18th century Jacobite uprisings.
The Auchrannie is shortlisted in the trainee and employee retention award where it faces competition from the CalMac hospital-ity apprenticeship, while the Scottish Salmon Company, which runs the Lamlash fish farm, is shortlisted for the business innovation award.