Resonance is a leading advisor in tourism, real estate and economic development and its Best Cities rankings quantify and benchmark the relative quality of place, reputation and competitive identity for the world’s principal cities with metropolitan populations 1 million+. 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.
"The World’s Best Cities rankings benchmark the overall performance of more than 400 cities around the world based on a wide variety of measures in order to identify the top 100 places to live, visit and invest," says Resonance President & CEO Chris Fair.
The overall Best Cities rankings are determined by analyzing the performance of each city for a wide range of factors that have historically shown positive correlations with attracting employment, investment and/or visitors to cities.
Based on each city’s performance in the 24 factors analyzed, these are the World’s Best Cities for 2021:
- London, England
- Paris, France
- New York City, USA
- Moscow, Russia
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Tokyo, Japan
- Singapore, Republic of Singapore
- Los Angeles, USA
- Barcelona, Spain
- Madrid, Spain
The full ranking is available at BestCities.org/Reports/2021-Worlds-Best-Cities/
And why does a ranking of the world’s cities matter now?
"The data collected for this year’s rankings provides a snapshot of which cities are best positioned to recover, and even thrive, in the years ahead," says Fair.