Tour Scotland 4K travel video of a sunny Winter road trip drive, with Scottish music, through Blackford and then East along the A9 road to visit the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire. This is a luxury hotel, world renowned for golf on the King's, Queen's and PGA Centenary courses. Gleneagles has a unique combination of leisure activities including riding, shooting, falconry, country club and is surrounded by breath taking countryside, yet within one hour's drive of both Edinburgh and Glasgow airports. The hotel's opening night was celebrated with Scotland's first ever outside broadcast on 7 June 1924. During World War II, as with many large country hotels, it was converted into Gleneagles Hospital under the charge of Dr Thomas Ferguson as Medical Superintendent. In 1948 ownership of the hotel passed from LMS to the British Transport Commission and in 1963 to British Transport Hotels. In 1981, British Transport Hotels sold Gleneagles to a newly established private sector operator, Gleneagles Hotels plc. In 1984 it was acquired by Arthur Bell & Sons, which came into the ownership of Guinness in 1985 and Diageo in 1997. The hotel remained owned by Diageo, until it was sold to a private investment company Ennismore in 2015. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March.
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