Gleneagles' Position in the Hotel and Catering Industry
To guests, Gleneagles is a year-round, luxury Five Red Star resort offering a unique blend of leisure and meetings facilities in unmatched surroundings. Within the hotel and catering industry, Gleneagles is recognised as a benchmark for professional excellence and the hotel which other professionals would most like to visit.
The Gleneagles Hotel is one of The Leading Hotels of the World and one of the Great Golf Resorts of the World; a founder member of Connoisseurs Scotland, the world class grouping of properties which provide an authentic flavour of Scotland to discerning travellers; a founder member of the Quality Scotland Foundation; and winner of more than 30 major awards from the travel, leisure and catering industries in the past ten years.
Gleneagles has been awarded the Automobile Association of Great Britain's supreme accolade, Five Red Stars, every year since 1986, and was chosen best UK hotel in the incentive travel category by Meetings & Incentive Travel magazine nine times the hotel other industry professionals would most like to visit. In the Caterer & Hotelkeeper magazine Lifestyle Survey 1994, Gleneagles was chosen in preference to the London hotels, The Savoy, The Dorchester and The Ritz one of the select group of businesses and organisations in the UK which have achieved the Investors in People national standard which sets the level of good practice for the training and development of people to achieve business goals.
Peter Lederer OBE, managing director, is committed to improving educational standards and training opportunities within the industry. In 1993 he won the Tourism 'Catey' award and in 1997 was honoured as Hotelier of the Year. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty The Queen in her Birthday Honours List 1994 for his services to the industry.
Peter Lederer is a Board Member of the Scottish Tourist Board, Connoisseurs Scotland and is a member of ASCETT (Secretary of State for Scotland's Advisory Scottish Council for Education and Training Targets). He has been appointed an honorary professor by the University of Dundee in recognition of his contribution to the work of the School of Food & Accommodation. He is chairman of Tourism Training Scotland and Hospitality Industry Trust Scotland.
