Edinburgh: Recent accolades and awards
1 st Most liveable city in the World (2018) —
Arcadis’
2018 Sustainable Cities Index
1 st Event and Festival Destination of the Year (Luxury
Travel Guide Awards, 2017)
1 st Edinburgh 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 the greatest city
2 nd Edinburgh ranked second in the world for quality of
in the world. I’m not shy to tell
life (The Financial Times, 2017)
anyone that. Where else in the
world can you stand on the
2 nd Edinburgh named 2nd top UK Destination in Trip
Advisor Travellers’ Choice Awards (2017)
main shopping street and see a
castle on top of a volcano?”
1 Britain’s best city to visit (2018) — Top 20 Travel
st
Destinations, Telegraph Travel Awards
Greg Stark
BSc (Hons) Public Sociology
1 st ‘The UK’s most attractive city to live and work’
— Royal Mail (2018)
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