Scottish Launch for New Marketing and Management Consortium 'Distinguished Hotels International'

Distinguished Hotels International (DHI), a new marketing and management consortium of more than 130 luxury, independent hotels around the world, has been introduced to the Scottish marketplace.

The creation of DHI represents the merger of UK-based Grand Heritage Hotels International with Distinguished Hotels International in the US, incorporating seven hotels managed by the Magna Hospitality Group LLC, whose co-founder and chairman is William Burruss. Its hotel affiliates will be marketed to potential visitors, inluding leisure travellers, business travellers, company executives, the travel trade and meeting planners through the sales offices in London and New York.

The formation of DHI reunites Burruss - who served as co-founder and president of Grand Heritage Hotels International until the company was sold in 1997 - with Timothy Hadcock-Mackay the current owner and Chairman of Grand Heritage Hotels International, together with his partner, David Owen, CEO. As President, Burruss will strengthen the existing Distinguished Hotels International management team, while Hadcock-Mackay will continue to serve as Chairman, focusing on new hotel membership.

"We will offer leisure and business travellers a 'one-of-a-kind' travel experience with very high standards," Burruss says. "They will be able to choose from a list of more than 130 independent. luxury hotels, castles, chateaux, stateley homes, resorts, boutique hotels, health spas and inns located around the world. Unlike chain hotels, each DHI property - whether city centre or resort hotels - will be uniquely different, offering the exceptional amenities and architectural elegance for which Grand Heritage has always been known."

Timothy Hadcock-Mackay, who will continue to work with the team at the group's London Sales and Marketing office, has developed the Grand Heritage Hotels International business since its inception eleven years ago, says, "I am delighted to be working again with William Burruss, whom I admire greatly and see this as a significant opportunity to satisfy the growing demand in the marketplace for quality, independent hotels, thereby attracting new members and clients globally."

The Scottish members include: Enterkine (Ayrshire), Piersland Hotel (Ayrshire), Craigellachie Hotel (Banffshire), The Albany Hotel (Edinburgh), Dalhousie Castle and Spa (Edinburgh), The Inn at Lathones (Fife), Craigdarrock House Hotel (Invernesshire), Knockomie Hotel (Moray) and The Huntingtower Hotel (Perthshire).

For further information regarding their hotels in Scotland and world wide please visit their wesite: www.distinguishedhotels.com