SHORT-BREAK tourists see York as the world's safest city with Cairo the most risky, according to a survey.

Of 42 destinations, Bath, Edinburgh and Brighton were also considered particularly safe, while Bangkok, Istanbul and Marrakech were, after Cairo, the cities deemed least safe.

From Post Office Travel Insurance, the survey of 2,075 UK adults showed that 72 per cent felt York was safe with only one per cent considering the Yorkshire city risky, and 26 per cent having no view.

Second in the table was Bath with 69 per cent saying it was safe and only 2 per cent regarding it as risky. Edinburgh also had a 69 per cent safe rating, with 3 per cent reckoning the Scottish capital was a risky destination.

Of the eight UK and Ireland destinations in the survey, the least-safe was Belfast with only 37 per cent deeming it safe. But although 53 per cent reckoned Manchester was safe, 20 per cent thought the north-west England city was risky - a higher figure that that for Belfast (19 per cent).

Least-safe city among the 42 was Cairo, with 56 per cent seeing the Egyptian city as risky and only 7 per cent saying it was safe. The risky figure for Bangkok was 47 per cent, with Istanbul 39 per cent and Marrakech 35 per cent.

These were the 10 "safest" destinations (excluding the percentage of people who were "don't knows"):

City Safe Not safe

York 72% 1%

Bath 69% 2%

Edinburgh 69% 3%

Brighton 62% 6%

Venice 59% 4%

Vienna 58% 2%

Dublin 58% 6% 

Florence 56% 3% 

Stockholm 56% 3%

Copenhagen 54% 3%

These were the scores for the other UK and Ireland destinations surveyed: London: 58% 16%; Manchester: 53% 20%; Belfast: 37% 19%.