Edinburgh: Recent accolades and awards
1 st Edinburgh came first in the Telegraph’s ‘Britain’s Best
20 Cities’ award, for the third time in a row (2016)
1 st Event and Festival Destination of the Year (Luxury
Travel Guide Awards, 2017)
1 st E dinburgh ranked 1st in the 2016/17 FDi strategy
category for Global Cities of the Future
1 st Voted Friendliest UK City (Conde Nast Traveller, 2016)
1 st Edinburgh is the Greenest City in the UK — 49.1% of
the city is green space (The Guardian, Jan 2017)
1 st Edinburgh named UK’s most Walkable City (Living
Streets, 2017)
“Edinburgh is one of the most
2 nd E dinburgh ranked second in the world for quality of
beautiful cities I’ve ever visited.
life (The Financial Times, 2017)
It is a city enriched with heritage
and people are so warm.”
2 nd Edinburgh named 2nd top UK Destination in Trip
Advisor Travellers’ Choice Awards (2017)
Hetvi Kara (from Tanzania)
MSc Physiotherapy (Pre-Registration)
2 nd Best UK Destination outside London for second year
in a row (Trip Advisor, 2016)
4 th E dinburgh voted the fourth ‘Most Beautiful City in the
World’ by readers of Rough Guide, behind only
Paris, Florence and Rome (Feb, 2016)
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