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Inverness Tours Coordinator, Tony with one of the awards he won with his bus tour prior to 2007Tony Harmsworth, has won numerous tourism awards including the first coach tour to be awarded five Scottish Tourist Board stars and winner of the best tourist attraction in the Highlands in 2004. This picture was taken in 2003 when he still operated a bus. Today tours are conducted in various luxury vehicles mainly six or eight passenger luxury cars at even higher standards.

The photograph (right) was taken with Tony's bus and the five star award plaque. No previous tour in Scotland had won this award. Sadly regrettable reductions in the standards applied by the new VisitScotland scheme means that this award is now given to crowded The Best Visitor Attraction Award Trophyminibuses on ridiculous break-neck itineraries from Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Currently our new exclusive tour business falls outside the scope of the Scottish Tourist Board grading scheme, but previous awards won will give you confidence that whatever we offer, we do with excellence as the objective.

Tony has also completed many courses for excellence in tourism including Scotland's Best Managers and Welcome Host.

In 2004, largely through the efforts of guide, Alison Cameron, the bus tour business was given the highest accolade available.

It was not just the best tourist attraction in the Highlands, but the award had been voted for by the tours customers themselves who swamped the awards' committee with so many votes that they had no choice but to give the Visitor Attraction trophy to a bus tour! A trophy won the previous year by the mega-million-pound Urquhart Castle Visitor Centre.

Such a nomination had never occurred before and the committee have since reorganised the awards to make it almost impossible for such an award to be won by a tour again in the future.

When the organisations who give awards have to change the criteria and standards in order to open them to other businesses, it speaks volumes about the quality of the company who first set those standards.

Tony has been at the quality end of the business for more than thirty years and is striving to make his new exclusive tour business the finest of its kind available in Scotland. Our new "What You Think" page will prove that we are working towards this objective.

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