A brace of venues in the West Midlands have won national tourism awards.
Black Country Living Museum and Mallory Court Country House Hotel & Spa both took home honours at the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2025.
The museum in Dudley won gold in the large visitor of the year category while the Leamington Spa venue was named large hotel of the year.
St Mary's Guildhall, the 700-year-old tourist attraction in Coventry city centre, won bronze in the international tourism category.
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They were all finalists in the national ceremony held in Brighton after winning categories at the West Midlands Tourism Awards in March.
Across the wider region, Keele University in north Staffordshire was named best business events venue, Abbots Grange Manor House near Evesham won silver in best B&B and guest house and World of Wedgwood in Stoke-on-Trent was awarded silver in the international tourism category.
Completing the regional winners was Andrew Hurley, a volunteer at Avoncroft Museum in Bromsgrove who took home bronze in the unsung hero award.
Mr Hurley has worked at the museum for more than three decades, helping to preserve its national collection of telephone kiosks, said to be one of the largest in the country.
The VisitEngland Awards, which have been running for 30 years, recognised excellence in the hospitality and tourism industries across 19 different categories.
Other winners included the The Beatles Story museum in Liverpool, No.1 Royal Crescent in Bath and Railway 200, a 200th anniversary celebration of the first passenger railway.
VisitEngland director Andrew Stokes said: "These annual awards are an opportunity to applaud and showcase the businesses and individuals who provide outstanding customer service and continuously improve their products and offer for visitors.
"From a captivating science museum in Merseyside to a fully accessible hotel in Bournemouth, from cow cuddling on a farm in Yorkshire to fine dining in Lancashire, this year's winners show just how varied and diverse our industry is and what makes it great.
"Competition this year was fierce, reflecting the excellence evident across each category and I congratulate all the 2025 winners, and especially those who won gold, an achievement cementing their place as the standard bearers of our world-class tourism industry."
