Measuring how great a city is can be hard. Researchers over at Euromonitor have come up with their own pretty decent ranking of the best cities, for travellers specifically.
Up until 2020 – not a great year for travel, let’s be honest – the research firm ranked the cities based on the number of international arrivals. But for the past two years, it has instead focused six ‘performance pillars’: tourism infrastructure, tourism policy and attractiveness, health and safety, sustainability, economic and business performance, and tourism performance.
So, where came top in 2022? Rather predictably, it’s Paris, which fared particularly well in the tourist performance and infrastructure category. The French capital is just really nice, isn’t it? Next is Dubai (also not much of a surprise), which came first in 2020. The third spot, meanwhile, went to perennial tourist magnet Amsterdam – despite introducing several measures to combat overtourism over the past year. Some things never change.
Here is this year’s top ten in full:
Paris
Dubai
Amsterdam
Madrid
Rome
Berlin
New York
London
Munich
Barcelona
