They made the list compiled by Booking.com for the website’s annual Traveller Review Awards
Newry clocked in as the second ‘most welcoming UK city’, just behind Harrogate in North Yorkshire.
Meanwhile, Enniskillen placed fourth, with Portstewart coming in fifth, directly behind the Co Fermanagh town.
Destinations had to have at least 50 eligible accommodations to be included in this list, and were sorted by the highest share of award recipients per destination.
The full list of the UK’s Top Most Welcoming Cities 2026, according to Booking.com, also included Broadway in Worcestershire, Wells in Somerset, Dornoch in the Highlands, Hornsea in East Riding of Yorkshire, and Stornoway in Isle of Lewis.
Further across the globe, Montepulciano (Italy), Magong (Taiwan) and San Martin de los Andes (Argentina) also feature in the list of the most welcoming cities.
The awards are based on more than 370m verified reviews from travellers across the world.
They celebrate a “record-breaking 1.81m travel partners across 221 countries for their “outstanding hospitality”.
The statistics from Booking.com also show that apartments continue to dominate as the top accommodation choice for global travellers on the website, followed by holiday homes and hotels.
Enniskillen, Portstewart and Newry have all made the top 10 (clockwise from left)
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Elsewhere in Northern Ireland, Omagh was the only NI place to feature in Time Out magazine’s top 14 places in the UK to visit this year, ranking among places like Edinburgh and Birmingham.
Those rankings were revealed last month, with locals in the Co Tyrone town describing it as a “hidden gem”.
The Sunday Times will also soon be revealing their Best Places to Live guide for 2026, with Co Down village Dundrum – hometown of RTE presenter Patrick Kielty – being named the best place to live in Northern Ireland last year.