Visit York:
Gaze at the gothic splendour of York Minster, browse the medieval shopping streets of Stonegate and the Shambles. Learn about York's Roman heritage at the Yorkshire Museum, experience Viking York at JORVIK. Cruise along the River Ouse.
Walk the city walls and discover York's royal history of kings, princes and England's Christian history. Visit York Castle Museum , York Dungeon, the National Railway Museum or the Rowntree Heritage York's next great story. You will be spoilt for choice.
York in the News:
York has been crowned Europe’s top city destination 2007 after scooping an international award. Launched by European Cities Marketing (ECM), the first ever European Cities Tourism Awards were attended by over four hundred tourism professionals at a gala dinner in Athens.
Finalists in the category for Best European Tourism City were York, Gothenburg and Valencia.
The new awards scheme aims to celebrate world-class performance and to provide a benchmark for best practice among Europe’s tourism cities and tourism organisations. In line with its efforts to strive for world-class performance and prompted by the phenomenal growth of city tourism over the last few years, European Cities Marketing launched the first European Cities Tourism Annual Awards to recognise excellence and professionalism both among Europe’s tourism cities and their tourism organisations.
In addition to the awards’ criteria, the judges were looking for cities that demonstrated a strong customer focus in all their activities, sustainable tourism development and performance based on economy, efficiency and effectiveness.