Edinburgh's awards and accolades

Visitors and residents alike consistently rate Edinburgh highly for its attractiveness and quality of life, winning the Inspiring Capital numerous 'Best City' accolades. Edinburgh has also won many awards for its environment, economy, innovation and architecture.

Titles include:

• UK's most competitive large city in the 2010 UK Competitiveness Index - compiled by The Centre for International Competitiveness, The University of Wales Institute
• Best Small City of the Future and Top Location for Economic Potential 2010/11 (The Financial Times, Foreign Direct Investment (fDi) Magazine) 
• Favourite UK City - for the tenth year running (Guardian/Observer Travel Awards 2009)
• UK's best destination port (cruisecritic.co.uk - October 2009)
• Top Must-See UK City - (Travelodge - August 2009)
• UK's most desirable City (YouGov poll - July 2009) 
• A world top ten city (Wanderlust 2008)
• Top Ten European destination and 27^th in the world (2008 Trip Advisor Destination Awards)
• Top Small European City (The Financial Times, Foreign Direct Investment (fDi) Magazine, 2008)
• Sixth Best Overall City in Europe and second best in Europe for Human Resources. This places Edinburgh ahead of major cities such as Frankfurt, Madrid, Brussels, Barcelona, Geneva and Dublin.  (Foreign Direct Investment magazine, 2008)
• The UK's best place to live (Location Location Location, Channel 4, 2007)
• Edinburgh Science Triangle - Scottish winner of the Enterprising Britain 2007 Awards
• European City of the Year 2006 (The Academy of Urbanism)
• Britain's most satisfying city (MORI 2006)
• The UK's only 'Ideopolis' outside London - a city of ideas, where knowledge, creativity, enterprise, connectivity and the quality of life combine to create a dynamic local economy (The Work Foundation, 2006)
• The Award of Excellence for Innovative Regions (European Commission, 2002)