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:
WORLD'S TOP LITERARY
CITY - National Geographic Magazine
September 2011
FAVOURITE
UK CITY - for the twelfth (12th) year running -
Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk Travel
Awards 2011
'TOP GLOBAL CITY' - category: city populations
100,000 to 500,000 - IFEA World Festival & Event City
awards 2010
BEST UK CITY DESTINATION - Conde Nast Traveller,
Readers' Travel Awards 2010
UK'S MOST COMPETITIVE
LARGE CITY in the 2010 UK Competitiveness
Index - The Centre for International Competitiveness,
The University of Wales Institute
BEST SMALL
CITY OF THE FUTURE - The Financial Times, Foreign
Direct Investment (fDi)
Magazine 2010/2011
TOP
LOCATION FOR ECONOMIC POTENTIAL - The Financial Times,
Foreign Direct Investment (fDi)
Magazine 2010/2011
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
TOP SMALL EUROPEAN CITY - The Financial Times, Foreign
Direct Investment (fDi) Magazine 2008/2009
EUROPEAN CITY OF THE YEAR - The Academy of
Urbanism 2006
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
