The Leicestershire Tourism & Hospitality Awards 2025

Last night (3 December) at Leicester’s Athena venue, the very best of Leicestershire’s Tourism businesses gathered for the Leicestershire Tourism and Hospitality Awards.

Atrractions, restaurants, pubs, hotels and many more were in the running for a host of awards celebrating the people and the place who drive our region’s tourism offer. A gala dinner with fantastic performances and entertainment led into the main event, celebrating those who go the extra mile to provide a fantastic visitor experience.

The Leicestershire Tourism and Hospitality Awards are run by LPL and serve as the regional heats for the national VisitEngland awards. A number of winners will now go through to the national finals and we hope for a repeat of last year where three of our businesses were chosen as finalists.

Read on to find out who were chosen as this year’s winners! The awards were split into five main categories, with a few special awards plus a public vote for the region’s favourite day out!

Winner: Duncan Reed from the 1620s House and Garden

Highly Commended: Maria Perez Pagan from Bar Dos Hermanos and Rafaela Mosnegutu

Winner: The Victory Show

Highly Commended: Melton Carnegie Museum and the Breakfast Team at the Holiday Inn Leicester

Winner: The Grange Camping and Caravan Park

Highly Commended: Rothley Wine Estate

Winner: The Old Plough Birstall

Winner: Novotel Leicester

Highly Commended: History Fare Melton

A Special Recognition Award was also presented to Richard Knox from Bosworth Battlefield and the 1620s House for his years of dedication to showcasing the history of Leicestershire.

Winner: Bar Dos Hermanos

Highly Commended: The Grange Garden Centre

Winner: The Griffin Inn Swithland

Highly Commended: The White Horse, Birstall

Commended: The Stamford Arms Groby

Winner: S.O.A.K Cocktail Co Loughborough

Winner: Black Iron at Winstanley House

Highly Commended: The White Horse, Birstall

Commended: The Great Central Railway

Winner: The White Hose Birstall

Highly Commended: Great Central Railway, The Blacksmiths Arms, Barrow Upon Soar

Commended: LYNN, Stanton Lakes, The Globe

Winner: The Grange Garden Centre Melton Mowbay

Highly Commended: Melton’s Welcome Café

Winner: Mallories

Highly Commended: Black Iron at Winstanley House

Commended: The Blacksmiths Arms Barrow Upon Soar

Winner: Novotel Leicester

Highly Commended: Crowne Plaza East Midlands Airport, Holiday Inn Leicester, Leonardo Hotel & Conference Venue Hinckley Island

Winner: The Grange Caravan and Camping Park

Winner: Marsh Mallow Cottage

Winner: Winstanley House 

Highly Commended: Sysonby Knoll Hotel

Winner: The Crowne Plaza East Midlands Airport

Highly Commended: Novotel Leicester

Winner: Light Up Leicester 

Highly Commended: Love Loughborough Gardeners’ Fair, 1940s Melton Mowbray, Hinckley BID Soapbox Derby, Mallory Mile

Commended: Charnwood Borough Council Christmas Lights Switch-on, Hinckley BID Motor Show, Harborough Steampunk in the Market

Winner: Groby Rocks

Highly Commended: The White Horse Duck race

Winner: The Victory Show

Highly Commended: Brickish Weekend at the National Space Centre

Commended: Great Central Railway Railway 200 Weekend

Winner: Just The Two Of Us, The Spa At Breedon Priory

Highly Commended: Hidden Food Tours Melton Mowbray, Break Escape Loughborough

Commended: Bosworth Marina

Winner: Everards Beer Hall

Highly Commended: Rothley Wine Estate, The White Horse Birstall

Winner: Gates Garden Centre

Winner: King Richard III Visitor Centre

Highly Commended: Windmill Farm Park

Commended: Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and Country Park

Winner: Manor Farm Park and Woodland

Highly Commended: Great Central Railway, National Space Centre

Great Central Railway

Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council for their support for the Bosworth 1485 Trail.