Kelowna is number 2
Rob Gibson – July 6, 2022 / 10:54 | History: 374426
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Congratulations to Kelowna continue.
According to Resonance Consultancy, a real estate consulting firm, Kelowna is second among the 25 best-performing cities in its first ranking of cities with a population of less than 200,000.
Resonance’s top city rankings quantify and evaluate the relative quality of the site, reputation, and competitive identity of cities around the world.
“Our top city rankings have been the global benchmark for measuring the performance of cities since 2014, used by governments and global media such as National Geographic and AFAR to assess the trajectory of the world’s urban centers, both large and small,” says Chris Fair, president and CEO of Resonance. .
“The best city rankings are made up of experiential factors that people consider most important when choosing a city to live and visit, as well as empirical factors that business decision makers consider important for business or investment.” .
According to the performance of each city in the 32 factors analyzed in 2022, these are the best small cities in Canada this year:
- Victoria, BC
- Kelowna, BC
- Kingston, ON
- Niagara Falls, ON
- Waterloo, ON
- North Vancouver, BC
- Burlington, ON
- Guelph, ON
- Fredericton, NB
- Lethbridge, AB
Rankings use a wide range of factors, such as user-generated reviews and online activity on channels such as Google, Facebook, and Instagram.
“As a result, Resonance’s top city rankings not only 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 the attraction of ’employment, investment and / or visitors,’ ‘says Fair.
Some of the contributing factors include the number of quality culinary and museum experiences, employment, direct connections to flights, and mentions that each city has on Instagram.
“As our cities and borders reopen, it’s clear that cities have been changed by the pandemic, and so have Canadians,” Fair says.