Group Leisure & Travel Awards 2024: introducing your winners

Here are your 2024 GLT Awards winners…

Best UK Attraction for Children & Families

This category is presented in partnership with Wightlink

• Chester Zoo
• Go Ape
• LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort (winner)
• Monkey World
• Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter
• West Midlands Safari Park

Best Museum or Gallery

This category is presented in partnership with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

• Black Country Living Museum
• King Richard III Visitor Centre
• London Transport Museum (winner)
• National Portrait Gallery
• The National Gallery
• The Royal Mint Experience

Thank you to our official 2024 Awards Partners…

Best Historic Attraction or Venue

This category is presented in partnership with LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort 

• Hatfield Park
• Leeds Castle
• Longleat
• Tower of London (winner)
• Waddesdon Manor
• Windsor Castle

Best Garden Visit

This category is presented in partnership with Chester Zoo

• Chelsea Physic Garden
• Exbury Gardens
• RHS Garden Wisley
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (winner)
• The Savill Garden
• Sir Harold Hillier Gardens

Best Coach or Tour Operator - UK Tours

This category is presented in partnership with The Royal Mint

• Airedale Tours
• Alfa Travel
• Daish’s Holidays
• Dunwood (winner)
• Greatdays Travel Group
• Norman Allen Group Travel

Best Ferry or Fixed Link Operator

This category is presented in partnership with Ramble Worldwide

• Brittany Ferries
• DFDS
• Irish Ferries (winner)
• LeShuttle
• P&O Ferries
• Wightlink

Best Event for Groups

This category is presented in partnership with Daish’s Holidays

• BBC Gardeners’ World Live
• Blackpool Illuminations (winner)
• Bournemouth Air Festival
• Kynren
• RHS Malvern Spring Festival
• Royal Ascot

Best Christmas Experience

This category is presented in partnership with The Play That Goes Wrong 

• Blenheim Palace
• Christmas at Kew
• Gloucester Quays
• Hever Castle
• Thursford Christmas Spectacular (winner)
• Waddesdon Manor

Best Guided Tour

This category is presented in partnership with The New Meridian Association

• Emmerdale The Village Tour
• Manchester City Stadium Tour
• The Royal Mint Experience (winner)
• Tootbus London
• Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• Windsor Castle

Best Accommodation for Groups

This category is presented in partnership with Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines

• Brend Collection
• Celesta Venues
• Daish’s Holidays
• Potters Resorts
• Richardson Hotels
• Warner Hotels (winner)

Best Group Dining Experience

This category is presented in partnership with Irish Ferries

• City Experiences
• East Lancashire Railway
• Faulty Towers The Dining Experience (winner)
• Hard Rock Cafe
• Mamma Mia! The Party
• Yeadon Town Hall Theatre Dinner Shows

Best Theatre Production

This category is presented in partnership with Group Line

• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• The Lion King
• Mamma Mia! (winner)
• Mrs Doubtfire
• The Play That Goes Wrong
• Wicked

Best Cruise Line

This category is presented in partnership with Travel Editions

• Amadeus River Cruises
• Ambassador Cruise Line
• CroisiEurope
• Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines (winner)
• Saga
• Scenic Luxury Cruises & Tours

Best Ticketing Agency

This category is presented in partnership with ABBA Voyage

• Delfont Mackintosh
• Disney Tickets
• Group Line (winner)
• LW Theatres
• Nimax Theatres
• The Ticket Factory

 Best UK Destination

This category is presented in partnership with Dunwood

• Isle of Wight (winner)
• Leicester and Leicestershire
• London
• Norwich
• Wiltshire
• York

Best International Destination

This category is presented in partnership with DFDS

• Disneyland Paris, France
• Flanders, Belgium
• India
• Ireland
• Lake Garda, Italy (winner)
• New York City, USA

The Excellence Award

This category is presented in partnership with P&O Ferries

• Marcia Clement, RHS
• Charlotte Howle, Chester Zoo (winner)
• Hayley Walker, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines
• Flo Wallace, Visit Wiltshire/Great West Way®

Find out more about each of the finalists in our special feature.

Best Group Tour Operator

This category is presented in partnership with LeShuttle

• HF Holidays
• Leger Holidays (winner)
• Ramble Worldwide
• Simply Groups
• Success Tours
• Travel Editions

Best UK Attraction

This category is presented in partnership with Warner Hotels

• Buckingham Palace (winner)
• Coronation Street Experience
• lastminute.com London Eye
• London Zoo
• National Memorial Arboretum
• Stonehenge

GTO of the Year Award®

This category is presented in partnership with Ambassador Cruise Line

• Joyce Cook, Basingstoke & Old Basing U3A (winner)
• Nicola Haynes, Theatre Trips Essex
• Patsy Steadman, Force Club, Avon & Somerset Police
• Gwen Wright, The Arts Society, Cranleigh

Find out more about each of the finalists in our special feature.