Recent figures show that about 6.9 million tourists each year travel to visit the City of York. When there they’re spending around £570 million on tourism-related industries. These include such places as hotels, restaurants, bars shops and historical cultural and religious sites.

However, tourism in Yorkshire as a whole generates a whopping £9 billion per annum, creating over 225,000 jobs. Last year and the preceding years have seen over 92 million day visitors and 12.8 million that stayed at least one night in this beautiful vast epically dramatic region of Yorkshire. The facts speak for themselves.

This is one of the massive reasons alone why landlords in and around York and North Yorkshire are so busy renting out their Airbnb properties short-term and mid-term. All hosted looked after managed and taken care of by Nestify. Your one-stop for Aibnb management in York.

The Multicultural, beautiful city of York has a calendar full of vibrant gigs. Including events, festivals and shows. These include the Jorvik Viking Festival, The York races, The early music festival and the Asthetika short Film Festival. They also stage hugely popular comedy nights, exhibitions, night and day markets and much, much more. In this wonderful, colourful, enchanting historical city if you are a visitor and you grace these shores in the winter months you will not be disappointed.

This is because it’s the UK’s most festive city is home to the enchanting St. Nicholas fair and an abundance of Christmas activities. October sees the new 25th-anniversary show of ‘Riverdance.’ At the York Barbican. It is expected to be sold out every night for the whole month. With a capacity crowd of around 3400 people. Made up of 1,500 people sitting and 1,900 people standing.

Fun facts about the city include that in the year 71 CE the Romans came, conquered, occupied and took over the City of York. In the process, building a fortress and a wall, which there are traces of that remain today. Their York settlement went by the name of Eboracum. It served as the main northern military Roman headquarters until they finally withdrew in 400 CE. Historians debate that the damp cold Yorkshire weather was just too much for them. That’s why they eventually left!

Roll on 400 odd years to 867 the next pleasant visitors in line were the Vikings. They came, conquered took over and ruled the city and kept it as their Northumbrian capital. The city present-day name York is derived from the Danish language and it was called Jorvik.

Then the Middle Ages came and the City of York eventually grew into a major wool trading centre. Also becoming the capital of the northern ecclesiastical province of the Church of England. A role it still holds to this day.

Fast forward a few hundred years to the 20th century and World War II came and so did the German bombers. They bombed the city and this was called the baedeker blitz. Many buildings were hit, gutted and raised to the ground. Restoration work was still going on into the 1960s.

There are just so many attractions to be seen in and around York. But one can’t talk about attractions without mentioning the amazingly famous York Minster. This towers over the city and is a historical landmark and a wondrous piece of architectural heritage.

There is also The Castle Museum, The National Railway Museum and the Yorkshire air museum. The Jorvik Viking centre, York castle, York museum gardens, Yorkshire Museum and The York city walls. The list goes on and on. Any visitor that comes to the fantastic City of York upon leaving will feel like they’ve seen and touched a true part of history.