Vancouver-Best holiday

Vancouver is an incredibly vibrant, multicultural city experiencing tremendous growth in anticipation of the 2010 Winter Olympics. No matter where you’re coming from, Vancouver is open to you! Tourists, visitors or new citizens can anticipate amazing hotspots as this city has a lot to offer. If you’re looking forward to a free weekend or you’re thinking about a place to take your children to, make sure you read this.

Vancouver
Vacationer attractions
Chinatown
Chinese are the largest minority in Vancouver, it is no wonder that this city has the largest Chinatown in Canada. The place is full of great markets that offer excellent vegetables, mushrooms, oriental medicine and seafood, fresh and dry. Visitors can enjoy this part of the city especially in the cultural influence is obvious and makes this place unique.

Stanley Park
Probably the biggest attraction is the Stanley Park in Vancouver. This huge park of 400 hectares on the edge of downtown Vancouver is known as the Crown Jewell of Vancouver. There are many attractions in Stanley Park, including the famous Wall 8 miles from the sea, which makes a loop around the park.

English Bay
If you walk the Stanley Park Sea Wall, you ultimately end up passing by the beaches of English Bay on the south side of the peninsula in downtown Vancouver. It is a great place to walk, or lay on the beach. However, the greatest attraction is the beauty that is English Bay at the edge of downtown Vancouver, overlooking the city of Vancouver, near Stanley Park, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Island Vancouver and the mountains of North Vancouver!

The Vancouver Aquarium
A must-see place for all lovers of animals, the Vancouver Aquarium offers a glimpse into the lives of over 60,000 exotic creatures and amazing all over the world. Children can enjoy shows with dolphins, whales and belugas, are presented every day.

Accommodation
There are many five-star luxury hotel in Vancouver that offer the best facilities and services for visitors. One of the preferred hotel in the city is the Victorian-style hotel offers accommodation in the center of large and detailed maps and shopping guides for dinner in Vancouver, the arts, tourism and in the guide.

Best Time to Visit
The best months for vacationing in Vancouver are from May to September.

Vancouver is considered as one of the most livable and beautiful city located in Canada that offers a wealth of exciting experiences for curious visitors.

Best place to live

26 May 2010: Vienna has again been named as the ‘best’ city in the world, with the Austrian capital’s perennial Swiss rivals, Zurich and Geneva, following close behind. Vancouver and Auckland retain last year’s joint 4th positions. Overall, German-speaking cities occupy six places in the top ten in this year’s Quality of Living Survey by Mercer Consulting.

Compared to 2009, very little has changed in this year’s Mercer survey. Copenhagen remained 11th, Amsterdam is still ranked 13th, while Melbourne, a city which the Economist Intelligence Unit ranks third in the world, is in 18th place. Cities which have marginally improved their rankings include Ottawa and Hamburg. Canberra and Stuttgart are newcomers to the top 50.

Mercer rankings are based on a point-scoring index, which sees Vienna score 108.6 and Baghdad 14.7. Cities are ranked against New York as the base city, with an index score of 100.

Mercer’s Quality of Living Index list was revised and now covers 221 cities compared to 215 last year, which means direct trend comparison will not be possible until 2011.

European cities continue to dominate amongst the top 25 cities in the index. In the UK, London ranks at 39, while Birmingham is at 55 and Glasgow at 57. In the US, the highest ranking entry is Honolulu at position 31, followed by San Francisco at position 32. Singapore (28) is the top-scoring Asian city followed by Tokyo at 40. Baghdad, ranking 221, remains at the bottom of the list.

This year’s ranking also identifies the cities with the best eco-ranking based on water availability and drinkability, waste removal, quality of sewage systems, air pollution and traffic congestion. Calgary is at the top of this index (score 145.7), followed by Honolulu in second place (score 145.1) and Ottawa and Helsinki in joint third (score 139.9). Wellington in New Zealand (5), Minneapolis (6), Adelaide (7) and Copenhagen fill the next four slots, while Kobe, Oslo and Stockholm share ninth place. Port-au-Prince in Haiti ranks at the bottom of this table with a score of only 27.8.

Mercer said that a high-ranking eco-city optimised its use of renewable energy sources and generated the lowest possible quantity of pollution (air, water, noise, etc). “A city’s eco-status or attitude toward sustainability can have significant impact on the quality of living of its inhabitants. As a consequence these are also pertinent issues for companies that send employees and their families on long-term assignments abroad, especially considering the vast majority of expatriates are relocated to urban areas,” the researchers added.