Group Leisure & Travel Awards 2025: your winners and finalists

Here are your 2025 GLT Awards winners…

Best UK Attraction for Children & Families

This category is presented in partnership with Ramble Worldwide.

• Chester Zoo
• Drusillas Park
• GreenWood Family Park
• LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort (Winner)
• Monkey World
• The Paddington Bear Experience
• West Midlands Safari Park

Best Museum or Gallery

This category is presented in partnership with DFDS.

• British Music Experience
• Frameless
• London Transport Museum
• The National Gallery
• National Maritime Museum
• The Royal Mint Experience (Winner)
  
• The Tank Museum

Thank you to our official 2025 Awards Partners…

Best Historic Attraction or Venue

This category is presented in partnership with LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort.

• Belvoir Castle
• Blenheim Palace
• Dover Castle
• Leeds Castle
• Raby Castle, Park & Gardens
• Tower of London (Winner)
• Windsor Castle

Best Garden Visit

This category is presented in partnership with Chester Zoo.

• Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens
• National Botanic Garden of Wales
• RHS Bridgewater
• RHS Garden Wisley (Winner)
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• The Savill Garden
• Tatton Park

Best Coach or Tour Operator - UK Tours

This category is presented in partnership with The Royal Mint.

• Airedale Tours
• Alfa Travel (Winner)
• Daish’s Holidays
• Dunwood
• Greatdays Travel Group
• Jason Edwards Travel
• Plimbley Travel

Best Ferry or Fixed Link Operator

This category is presented in partnership with Plimbley Travel.

• Brittany Ferries
• DFDS (Winner)
• Irish Ferries
• LeShuttle
• P&O Ferries
• Stena Line
• Wightlink

Best Event for Groups

This category is presented in partnership with Daish’s Holidays.

• BBC Gardeners’ World Live
• Blackpool Illuminations
• Kynren (Winner)
• Living Crafts
• RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
• Royal Ascot
• The Royal International Air Tattoo

Best Christmas Experience

This category is presented in partnership with the Group Leisure & Travel Show.

• Auckland Palace
• Blenheim Palace
• Christmas at Kew
• Hever Castle
• Holkham Hall
• Thursford Christmas Spectacular (Winner)
• Waddesdon Manor

Best Guided Tour

This category is presented in partnership with Disney Tickets.

• Coronation Street Experience (Winner)
• French Brothers
• Manchester City Stadium Tour
• The Roman Baths
• The Royal Mint Experience
• Windermere Lake Cruises
• York’s Chocolate Story

Best Accommodation for Groups

This category is presented in partnership with Ambassador Cruise Line.

• Daish’s Holidays
• Legacy Hotels
• Leisureplex Holiday Hotels
• Oceana Hotels & Restaurants
• Potters Resorts
• The Ruskin Hotel & Suites
• Warner Hotels (Winner)

Best Group Dining Experience

This category is presented in partnership with The New Meridian.

• Bustronome
• Faulty Towers The Dining Experience
• Hard Rock Cafe
• The London Cabaret Club
• Mamma Mia! The Party
• Potters Resorts (Winner)

Best Theatre Production

This category is presented in partnership with Group Line.

• Back to the Future
• The Lion King (Winner)
• Mamma Mia!
• The Play That Goes Wrong
• Stranger Things: The First Shadow
• Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
• Wicked

Best Cruise Line

This category is presented in partnership with Travel Editions.

• Ambassador Cruise Line (Winner)
• CroisiEurope
• Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines
• MSC Cruises
• P&O Cruises
• Viking Cruises

Best Ticketing Agency

This category is presented in partnership with ABBA Voyage.

• Delfont Mackintosh Theatres
• Disney Tickets (Winner)
• Group Line
• LW Groups
• Nimax Theatres
• Ticketpipe
• Trafalgar Tickets (TTX)

Best UK Destination

This category is presented in partnership with Dunwood.

• Bristol
• County Durham (Winner)
• Isle of Wight
• Leicester and Leicestershire
• Liverpool
• London
• Wiltshire

Best International Destination

This category is presented in partnership with P&O Ferries.

• Flanders, Belgium
• France
• India
• Ireland (Winner)
• Italy
• Las Vegas, USA

The Excellence Award

This category is presented in partnership with Blenheim Palace.

• Laura Cook, Daish’s Holidays (Winner)
• Kelly Kennedy, Alfa Travel
• Christine Oakes, Kynren
• Amiee Thomas, Longleat

You can read more about The Excellence Award finalists by clicking here.

Best Group Tour Operator

This category is presented in partnership with LeShuttle.

• Jules Verne
• Leger Holidays (Winner)
• Ramble Worldwide
• Simply Groups
• Success Tours
• Travel Editions
• Wendy Wu Tours

Best UK Attraction

This category is presented in partnership with Warner Hotels.

• Beamish – The Living Museum of the North (Winner)
• Buckingham Palace
• Hampton Court Palace
• lastminute.com London Eye
• National Memorial Arboretum
• Westminster Abbey

Group Travel Organiser of the Year® Award

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

• Jackie Ames, Unity 70 Travel & Leisure
• Carol Dixson-Smith, SawbridgeworthU3A
• Emma Durrant, The Sound Collective (Winner)
• Ray Spiller, Broomfield Coach Trips

You can read more about the GTO of the Year® finalists by clicking here.