SoGlos Gloucestershire Business Awards 2025 We’re absolutely thrilled to share that Holiday Architects had a brilliant night at the SoGlos Gloucestershire Business Awards 2025. Held on Thursday 6 November 2025 at Cheltenham Town Hall, the event brought an impressive number of the county’s most dynamic businesses across a range of categories together in one impressive room. Our Emma, Ian and Andy were there representing Team HA on the night, with the rest of us glued to our phones for updates, with all fingers and toes firmly crossed... SoGlos Gloucestershire Business Awards Categories we were shortlisted for Every year, the SoGlos Gloucestershire Business Awards is a great highlight in the calendar. And this year, we were lucky enough to be nominated in THREE categories... Best Place to Work Award Customer Excellence Award Team of the Year Award Drumroll please... We won Best Place to Work! We are so honoured to have been named Winner of the Best Place to Work award! Scooping this award is the perfect reflection of how building genuine connections, not just with trips and destinations, but among our team, is central to everything we do. It celebrates how we support, challenge, and truly enjoy working together. This is such a huge part of why the holidays we design are so loved by our clients, we genuinely love and enjoy every second of creating them. Winners of the Best Place to Work in Gloucestershire A message from our founder, Andy "Being the best place to work in Gloucestershire doesn’t happen by accident - it’s a result of the effort everyone puts into making HA’s culture as strong as possible. I think it’s all the more impressive that the team has built this team spirit in a largely remote working environment: it means making an extra effort to look out for each other and to support each other, and to commit to using our monthly Connection Days to really strengthen our relationships. It’s very easy to hide in a remote workplace but no-one does that here, and the pride the team have in what we’ve built and the desire to keep improving it, is so inspiring. So this really is a team win, and it's built on the importance each one of us places on making this the best group of colleagues and workmates you could wish for." Andy Hunt, HA founder Customer Excellence Award: Highly Commended Not only did we walk away with the Best Place to Work gong, we were Highly Commended and placed Second in the Customer Excellence Award category. It goes without saying that the relationship we build with our customers is at the heart of everything we do; it's always a priority, so this recognition means a lot. Always listening closely and really understanding what's important, before designing a truly unique adventure that fits like a glove – that will always be how we work. We're so proud of our Trustpilot reviews that reflect this, and this added recognition from SoGlos means the world. Highly Commended for Customer Excellence Why it matters This kind of recognition isn’t just a trophy to add to the old cabinet (though they absolutely will have pride of place). It reinforces that we're doing things right. From the first chat, all the way through the designing of all those unforgettable holidays, all the way to the return flight, we love every minute of it. Winning Best Place to Work tells us we’re doing well by our own team. Being recognised for Customer Excellence tells us our clients feel that, too. Emma and Ian heading up to collect our award A big thank you A great big thank you to everyone who supports us: our team, our clients, and our travel partners. And a huge thanks to SoGlos for organising such a brilliant night and spotlighting the spirit of Gloucestershire’s business community. We’re excited to take the momentum from this evening into the next season of travel, ready and raring to design more one-off journeys, build more authentic connections—both with our clients and across the world, and enjoy every minute of it together as a team. Here’s to what’s next! Read more about this year's event and see the full list of finalists and winners here. 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