Destinations

Online travel specialist TravelBird has released the Green Cities Index 2018, highlighting the best urban destinations for environmentally-minded travellers. With sustainability and green living becoming increasingly prominent in contemporary life, TravelBird is sharing this study in order to further the dialogue around sustainable tourism. The results recognise the cities making large efforts to be sustainable by preserving ecological areas, as well as those introducing initiatives to improve the quality and quantity of man-made green spaces….

For the ninth consecutive year, Vienna tops Mercer’s Quality of Living ranking, and other Western European cities continue to dominate the top of the list. An important role in a city’s attractiveness for talent and business is sanitation, Honolulu ranked 1st in the Sanitation ranking. Mercer’s authoritative survey is one of the world’s most comprehensive and is conducted annually to enable multinational companies and other organisations to compensate employees fairly when placing them on international…

Online weekend getaway portal and app, weekenGO have released a study revealing the top 100 best cities to spend the weekend, with London, UK taking the top spot. The results give an overall score for each city, but also indicate which destinations are best for three different types of travellers; millennials, families and baby boomers. As a company who lives and breathes weekend travel breaks, weekenGO undertook the study to define what exactly makes a…

Furnished housing aggregator, Nestpick, have produced a ranking which compares 100 cities worldwide to discover which offer Millennials the best standards of living based on general characteristics of the generation. With their finger on the pulse of migration patterns of young professionals all over the world, Nestpick combined their industry knowledge with an intensive research project, examining the cities by 16 factors, including housing score, tolerance to immigration, equality and a ranking of nightlife options….

Gdańsk has been nominated in the European Best Destinations 2017 contest, which has been run for 8 years by a tourism organization based in Brussels. This year the participants were: Porto (1st place), Milan (2nd place), Gdańsk, Athens, San Sebastian, Sozopol, Vienna, Stari Grad, Basel, Madrid, Rotterdam, Rome, Paris, Bonifacio, Wild Taiga and others. During three weeks, there were over 426,000 votes given from over 170 countries – much more than during last year’s edition…

Looking for the cheapest places to ski in Europe? Amidst the £10 beers in Zermatt and the fine dining in France, you can still ski the same slopes for a fraction of the price – in the French Alps, Italy, the US, and a few hidden ski fields in Europe!