6-Liverpool
6: Liverpool
The former City of Culture drops a place in this year's list but its visitor figures have risen by eight per cent.
April, May and June was a very profitable period for the city's waterside hotels with an occupancy of 82 per cent, four per cent higher than in the city.
The Titanic hotel opened in June and Lee Brennan saved What's Cooking, a restaurant he founded in 1978, when it faced imminent closure.