Overview
- Time Out placed Folkestone fourth on its 2026 list of UK seaside destinations, a ranking reported by multiple outlets that has raised the town’s profile this summer.
- The newly opened King Charles III Coastal Path now makes the entire UK shoreline walkable, encouraging more walkers to include Folkestone on coastal itineraries.
- Creative Folkestone’s regeneration programme has restored more than 90 buildings to form a creative quarter of studios, cafés and galleries that anchors the town’s cultural offer.
- The Harbour Arm has been redeveloped from a former ferry terminal into a promenade hosting over 70 independent food, drink and retail vendors and regular live events.
- Sunny Sands sits beside the harbour and is popular with families and London day-trippers, but local businesses warn that summer demand will put pressure on parking and capacity at peak times.