A Perthshire hotel has been sold to a firm that specialises in catering to visitors from China.
Omega Travel has snapped up the three-star Birnam Hotel and Inn.
Although the purchase price has not been disclosed, the property was on the market for offers around £600,000.
The firm intends to continue running the 27-bed facility as a hotel, as well as using it as a base for its tour company, which concentrates principally on Chinese tourists.
The hotel features its own banqueting hall, inspired by the Grand Hall at Blair Castle.
The mid-19th Century property, built in the baronial style, also offers a restaurant, a bar, two conference suites and a letting apartment.
The Birnam Inn is adjacent to the main hotel, with a busy public bar and split-level bistro restaurant.
Alistair Letham, a director with selling agent Colliers International, said: “The Birnam Hotel is a fine and imposing hotel property that benefits from the local and visiting trade.
“With plenty of character and centrally located in beautiful Perthshire, the hotel will no doubt be an additional draw and attraction to those additional visitors and tourists that will be brought to the locality by Omega Travel.”
Visitors from China can expect to find much to do in the region.
The hotel is adjacent to the Beatrix Potter Garden, which tells the story of the children’s author and her links to Perthshire.
Potter often visited the Birnam area and some of her stories were inspired by the people and places she knew.
The basis of The Tale of Peter Rabbit was set out in a letter she wrote from Scotland, while The Tale of Jeremy Fisher is thought to have been inspired by the river Tay.
The tale of Mrs Tiggy Winkle was published in 1905 and experts believe the anthropomorphic hedgehog was based on the Potters’ old washer woman at Dalguise, Kitty MacDonald.