Awards and Recognition

Industry recognition

• World Golf Awards: Africa's Best Golf Tour Operator in 2016, 2017, 2021, 2024 and 2026. Won by Ascot Tours, the company Scott Edkins founded in 1996 and on whose thirty years Ascot Private is built.
• World Golf Awards: Kenya's Best Inbound Golf Tour Operator in 2025, for Ascot Tours' work building golf tourism in East Africa.
• IAGTO (International Association of Golf Tour Operators), member since 2018.
• SATSA (Southern Africa Tourism Services Association), member.
• ATTA (African Travel and Tourism Association), member.
• Connections Luxury, partner.

Media coverage

Ascot Tours and Scott have been written about in regional and international travel media. Two recent pieces:

• Ascot Tours marks 30 years in South African golf tourism, ATTA, September 2026.
• South Africa fam with Ascot Tours, Recommend magazine, on the advisor trip we hosted in 2024.

For press enquiries, images or an interview with Scott, write to scott@ascotprivate.com.

Thirty years

The credential that matters most is the one you cannot buy: thirty years of moving people around Africa, learning what works on the ground and fixing what does not. Scott has held every trip to the same standard since 1996. The awards came because of that work.