The full ranking of the top 100 cities is available at /Reports/2021-Worlds-Best-Cities/Īnd why does a ranking of the world’s cities matter now? In our Place category, the number of COVID-19 cases per million (as of July 31, 2020) for each city was added.īased on each city’s performance in the 25 factors analyzed, these are the World’s Best Cities for 2021:

The Prosperity category now features the unemployment rate of a city (as of July 2020, the latest numbers available at press time) and the Gini Index of Income Inequality. New for the 2021 ranking, Resonance has added three new factors to better reflect the impact of the pandemic-and response-by cities. These range from the number of culinary experiences, museums, and sights and landmarks each city offers, to the number of Global 500 corporations, direct flight connections and mentions each city has on Instagram. “The World’s Best Cities rankings are composed of experiential factors that people consider most important in choosing a city to live and visit, as well as empirical factors that business decision-makers consider important for business or investment,” says Resonance President & CEO Chris Fair.Īs a result, Resonance’s Best Cities rankings don’t just consider cities as places to live, work or visit, but take a more holistic approach using a wide range of factors that show positive correlations with attracting employment, investment and/or visitors. They are lauded as the world’s most thorough city ranking, based on original methodology that analyzes key statistics as well as user-generated reviews and online activity in channels such as Google, Facebook and Instagram.

29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Resonance Consultancy today announced the world’s 100 top-performing cities in their annual World’s Best Cities Report.Ī leading advisor in tourism, real estate and economic development, Resonance’s Best Cities rankings quantify and benchmark the relative quality of place, reputation and competitive identity for the world’s principal cities with metropolitan populations of one million or more.

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