Marc Crothall MBE, Chief Executive of the Scottish Tourism Alliance
Marc Crothall started his working life in the tourism, leisure, and hospitality industry at the age of 17. He has held a variety of front-line senior management and executive positions across different sectors of the industry in various parts of the globe. This includes time spent in the US, Sweden, France, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, The Channel Islands, England, the Highlands of Scotland and in his home city of Glasgow where he has been settled with his family for the past 20 years.
He previously co-chaired the National Food Tourism Leadership Board and was Scotland’s representative on the UK Tourism Industry Council . He is currently a board member of Apprenticeship in Hospitality Scotland, Interface and an advisory board member of Springboard UK. He is also a member of Scotland’s Railway stakeholder panel.
In 2020 Marc was awarded the “Fellowship” by the Scottish Hotel industry for his outstanding contribution to the industry, and in June 2022 was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Birthday Honours for services to the Tourism Industry in Scotland. More recently, in October 2023, he received the Industry Contribution award at the 2023 Hotels of the Year Awards.
