Hotel / Accommodation succession in Scotland

Name: Hotel / Accommodation business succession in Scotland
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1,447 of 3,075 hotel / accommodation companies in Scotland — 47.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 4th highest of 7 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured3,075

Director aged 60+1,447

Exposure rate47.1%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

3,075

Companies measured

1,447

Director 60+

602

Director 70+

47.1%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; hotel / accommodation nationally runs at 46.1%.

Measure	Companies
Hotel / Accommodation companies in Scotland measured	3,075
Oldest director aged 60 or over	1,447
Oldest director aged 70 or over	602

Of the 1,447 with a director over 60, 137 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Hotel / Accommodation in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	1,921	52.5%
South East	1,679	51.5%
Northern Ireland	263	50.7%
Wales	985	50.5%
East of England	998	47.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber	960	45.4%
East Midlands	555	43.8%
London	2,763	43.7%

Other trades in Scotland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	3,930	37.6%
Consultancy Services	3,898	40.8%
Retail	2,680	25.9%
Agriculture	2,266	51.5%
Other Leisure	2,250	32.8%
Investment	2,104	33.7%
Engineering Services	2,065	33.5%
Investment / Fund Management	1,505	40.7%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Hospitality & Leisure pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Hospitality & Leisure →

See all Hotel / Accommodation succession data or everything in Scotland.

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ExitRadar, "Hotel / Accommodation succession in Scotland", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/hosp-hotel/scotland/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.