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Paris Continues its Reign as Highest-Rated City – GfK Data
The study evaluates the power and appeal of each city's image, providing a holistic and detailed perspective based on six key dimensions:
- Presence (the city's international status and standing)
- Place (its physical outdoors aspect and transport)
- Prerequisites (basic requirements, such as affordable accommodations and the standard of public amenities)
- People (friendliness, cultural diversity, how safe one feels)
- Pulse (interesting things to do)
- Potential (the economic and educational opportunities available).
CBI also demonstrates the precariousness of cities resting on their nation's brand. A number of cities underperform their nation's standing as established in this year's Nation Brands Index . Berlin is a prime example, just managing to hold onto a spot within the top-tier of cities. "This might be surprising given that Germany as a country took 1 place in the 2017 Nation Brands Index rankings and boasted the most balanced image of all nations surveyed", Vadim Volos , senior vice president of Social and Strategic Research and head of CBI at GfK, comments. "This shows that cities cannot rest on their nation's brand, they must cultivate their own unique images as well. "
Western cities tend to dominate the top half of cities, and in previous years, Western cities benefitted noticeably more than Eastern cities in the global public's estimations. 2017 shows a change in fortunes with marked improvement for many that is not constrained by region or developmental stage. For example, Tokyo is one of only a handful of non-Western cities that resides within the top half of cities. After experiencing a score decline in 2013, Tokyo has rebuilt and grown its image in the two consecutive CBI studies. Tokyo enjoys the greatest score gain of any city (+1.79) in 2017's CBI to draw to a tie for 11 position with Vancouver , surpassing Madrid , Barcelona , Washington D.C. , Toronto , and Vienna .
Looking at CBI 's Middle Eastern and African regions, Dubai is the only city within this region measured that does not rest within the bottom tier of cities. Dubai falls narrowly outside the top half (27 ), with its Presence (15 ) and Place (16 ) rankings anchoring and propelling its image. Though Dubai is the city within the region with the best reputation, Durban wins the award for most improved (+1.51), which allows it to surpass Cairo .
For more information on CBI 2017, please contact Vadim Volos at Vadim.Volos@gfk.com .
The Anholt-GfK CBI is run once every two years and measures the image of 50 cities with respect to Presence, Place, Prerequisites, People, Pulse, and Potential. For the 2017 study, 5,057 interviews were conducted across 10 countries ( Australia , Brazil , China , France , Germany , India , Russia , South Korea , UK, and USA ), with at least 500 interviews per country. Adults aged 18 or over were interviewed online in each country. Using the most up-to-date online population parameters, the achieved sample in each country is weighted to reflect key demographic characteristics including age, gender, and education of the online population in that country. Fieldwork was conducted from 20 September to 3 October 2017 .
The 50 cities ranked in the survey are as follows:
Amsterdam , Barcelona , Basel , Berlin , Brussels , Dublin , Edinburgh , Geneva , London , Madrid , Munich , Paris , Rome , Stockholm
Istanbul , Moscow , Prague , Vienna , Warsaw
Auckland , Bangkok , Beijing , Hong Kong , Jakarta *, Melbourne , Mumbai , Seoul , Shanghai , Singapore , Sydney , Tokyo
Boston *, Chicago , Dallas Fort Worth , Los Angeles , New York , San Francisco *, Toronto , Vancouver *, Washington D.C.
Buenos Aires , Mexico City , Rio de Janeiro , Santiago de Chile *
: Cairo , Cape Town , Doha , Dubai , Durban , Johannesburg
*Cities new to the CBI 2017 are denoted with an asterisk.
Simon Anholt is recognized as the world's leading authority on national image and identity. Professor Anholt was Vice-Chair of the UK Government's Public Diplomacy Board, and works as an independent policy advisor to the Heads of State and Heads of Government of more than 50 other countries. Anholt developed the concept of the Nation Brands Index and the City Brands Index in 2005.
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