An award for:
Businesses and groups that can demonstrate success through collaboration.

Who should enter?
Any two or more tourism-related organisations, which cross local authority boundaries and are private sector led.

What the judges are looking for:
A clear customer focus and evidence that, by working collaboratively, businessess have expanded their customer reach and increased visitors to Scotland.

Conditions of Entry:

• Only online entries are accepted.
• A business or individual can enter more than one category
• Entries must be submitted by 11.59pm on Thursday 5 June 2008.
• Judges reserve the right to transfer entries which in their view are entered in an incorrect category, to a more appropriate category.
• Where applicable, entrants must be a member of VisitScotland’s Quality Assurance schemes.
• If you are submitting an entry on behalf of another party, you must be able to provide proof of permission if required.
• The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• All information will be treated as confidential and will be used solely for the purposes of the Scottish Thistle Awards.
• For PR purposes, VisitScotland reserve the right to publish contact details and a summary of short listed and winners entries.
• Scottish Thistle Award winners and finalist will be promoted in national and regional media and on the visitscotland.com and the Scottish Thistle Awards websites.  
• VisitScotland cannot be held responsible for the non-receipt or loss of any entries.
• Wining organisations / businesses must be prepared to give media interviews, and we encourage winning organisations to become  Scottish Thistle Awards champions by help us promote the values of excellence and quality.