Today, Tripadvisor, the world’s largest travel platform, announced the winners of its annual Travellers’ Choice Best of the Best Awards for Destinations.

In the very first year that National Parks are featured in the Travellers’ Choice Best of the Best Awards for Destinations, The Yorkshire Dales National Park takes the title of Europe’s best and 11th in the world.

Continuing the UK’s National Parks success, near neighbours, the Peak District National Park is placed fourth in Europe and 24th in the world.

“With indoor activities mostly off the table in 2020, travellers headed for the great outdoors and according to a recent survey of Tripadvisor travellers, more than half (52%) say they are more likely to take an outdoor or nature trip than they were before the pandemic1.

With this in mind, it seemed timely to introduce this year’s new category, National Parks. While the pandemic has been incredibly tough in lots of ways, one positive that we can take away is that it has unleashed a new found love of getting back to nature for many of us,” said Tripadvisor spokesperson, Hayley Coleman.