Find out aboutThe Master Innholders

2025 Applications for Master Innholders membership are now closed.

 

About

The award of Master Innholder is open to practicing hoteliers from both the independent and group sectors by application each year.

Applications are sought from recognised leaders in hotel management whether as a successful General Manager, Managing Director, Chief Executives, owners or individuals in similar roles who can demonstrate extensive skill in both leadership and management within the hotel industry, as well as showcase examples of innovation and change.

2025 Applications for Master Innholders membership are now closed. 

For queries about applications for next year, please email secretary@masterinnholders.co.uk

Members

The Master Innholders is a well respected, prestigious force within the hotel industry – an elite corps which is publicly recognised as a standard bearer for the industry.

With over 160 members, it aims to influence standards and extend professionalism within the industry; to promote consideration, study, discussion and research in the areas affecting hotel management including management development, training, education and recruitment.

How to apply

2025 Applications for Master Innholders membership are now closed.

 

 

Hotelier of the Year Winners

Since its inception in 1983, The Caterer's Hotelier of the Year award has celebrated the UK’s most exceptional hotelkeepers and is the pinnacle of a career in hotelkeeping. Please see a list of the Master Innholder representatives of the Hotelier of the Year award:

2024 Gareth Banner MI, Ned in the City

2023 Conor O'Leary MI, The Gleneagles Hotel

2022 Adrian Ellis MI FIH, Lowry Hotel

2021 Daniel Pedreschi MI FIH, PPHE

2020 Sally Beck MI FIH, Royal Lancaster London

2019 Sally Beck MI FIH, Royal Lancaster London

2018 David Taylor MI FIH, InterContinental Hotels Group

2017 Sue Williams MI FIH, Whatley Manor

2016 Craig Bancroft MI FIH, Northcote

2014 Danny Pecorelli MI, Exclusive Hotels and Venues

2013 Stuart Bowery MI FIH, Grosvenor House A JW Marriott Hotel

2012 Stuart Johnson MI, Brown's Hotel London

2011 Stephen Carter OBE MI, De Vere Cameron House Hotel

2010 Andrew Stembridge MI FIH, Chewton Glen Hotel

2009 Jonathan Raggett MI, Managing Director, Red Carnation Hotels

2008 Andrew McKenzie MI, Vineyard at Stockcross, Newbury

2007 Michael Gray MI, Hyatt Regency London, the Churchill

2006 Richard Ball MI, Calcot Manor, Tetbury

2005 John Stauss MI, Four Seasons, London

2004 Patrick Elsmie MI, Gleneagles

2000 Peter Crome MI, then at Chewton Glen, New Milton

1999 Nick Ryan MI, then at the Crinan, Argyll

1998 Nicholas Rettie MI, then at the Metropolitan, London

1997 Peter Lederer MI, Gleneagles

1996 Chris Rouse MI, then at Turnberry, Ayrshire  

1995 Ricci Obertelli MI, the Dorchester, London

1993 Ken McCulloch MI, then at One Devonshire Gardens, Glasgow

1992 Dagmar Woodward MI, then at the Mayfair InterContinental, London

1991 Martin Skan MI, then at Chewton Glen, New Milton, Hampshire

1990 George Goring MI, Goring hotel, London

1988 Ronald Jones MI, then at Claridge's, London

1986 Harry Murray MI, then at the Imperial, Torquay, Devon

1985 Terry Holmes MI, then at the Stafford, London

1984 Ramón Pajares MI, then at the Four Seasons, London

1983 Richard Edwards MI, then at the Chester Grosvenor, Chester

 

 

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