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Sorry, New York, But London Is Actually The World's Real Financial Capital City

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Species said:
Classic example of butthurtness!!!! Indians are one funny species!!!! :lol:
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What are you even talking about? You wanted us all to believe that article and now that we do, you somehow feel offended?

You do believe that Chittagong is gonna be one of the top global financial hubs in the near future don't you?
 
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Roybot said:
What are you even talking about? You wanted us all to believe that article and now that we do, you somehow feel offended?

You do believe that Chittagong is gonna be one of the top global financial hubs in the near future don't you?
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Of course I believe that! This thread is on the current global financial hubs like London and New York, there was no reason to post about such future predictions pissing off some members. Accept it, you just tried an empty troll to get rid of your burned @ss. :lol:
 
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xyxmt said:
there is no place like NYC
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There is.:whistle:

London beats New York and Rome to be named BEST city in the world for hospitality according to travellers
  • London beats Paris, Rome and New York
  • Award based on the number of certificates of excellence given to tourist businesses in the city
By RUTH HALKON FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 17:11, 19 May 2015 | UPDATED: 18:24, 19 May 2015


London's hospitality is the best in the world, beating other major cities like New York and Rome, according to a major travel website.

As many as 3,210 of the UK capital's hotels, restaurants and attractions qualified for TripAdvisor's 2015 certificate of excellence.

This was a greater number than for any other world city, beating Rome, with 2,763 certificates, Paris (2,760) and New York (2,307).

Now in its fifth year, the award celebrates excellence in hospitality and is given to around ten percent of businesses on listed on TripAdvisor that consistently achieve great traveller reviews on the site.

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3,210 of the UK capital's hotels, restaurants and attractions qualified for a 2015 certificate of excellence


A total of 454 hotels and hostels in London were awarded excellence certificates, as well as 2,198 places to eat and 558 attractions.

The next-highest rated destination in the UK was Edinburgh with 732 certificates, with Glasgow third on 457, Blackpool fourth on 351 and Manchester fifth with 323.

Other destinations in the UK top 10 were Liverpool with 318, Bristol with 295, York with 291, Birmingham with 277 and Brighton with 244.

In total, 40,464 hospitality businesses in the UK received certificates this year - up from 31,325 in 2014.

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New York came in fourth place, winning

As well as beating New York, Rome and Paris, London trounced Barcelona, with 1,514 certificates, Sao Paulo, with 1,218, Milan with 992, Madrid with 98, Florence, with 942 and Prague, with 938.

To mark its 15th anniversary, TripAdvisor also launched, for the first time, a Hall of Fame for consistently top businesses.

To qualify as a Hall of Fame winner, a business must have won the award in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

With 344 five consecutive year winners, London features the highest number of Hall of Fame winners of any destination in the country.

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Rome came in second place, winning 2,763 certificates of excellence for hotels and restaurants in 2015

James Kay, a TripAdvisor spokesperson, said the awards helped drive up hospitality standards around the world.

He said: 'TripAdvisor is pleased to honour exceptional hospitality businesses that have received consistent praise and recognition by travellers on the site.

'By putting a spotlight on businesses that are focused on delivering great service to customers, TripAdvisor not only helps drive an improvement to hospitality standards around the world, it also gives businesses both large and small the ability to shine and stand out from the competition.'

'For London to rank number one in the world when it comes to number of winning businesses is a fantastic achievement and proves the extremely high quality hospitality that London has to offer.'

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Paris came in third place, winning 2,760 certificates of excellence for hotels and restaurants in 2015



London beats New York and Rome to be named BEST city in the world for hospitality | Daily Mail Online

You name it, London has it.:enjoy:
 
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mike2000 is back said:
Sorry, New York, But London Is Actually The World's Real Capital City

  • Sep. 7, 2015
  • In 1998, 32.6% of the world’s forex trading was done in the UK (almost all of which takes place in London), against 18.3% in the US. By 2013, the UK had grown to make up 40.9% of the global market, seeing a daily average of $2.73 trillion in turnover. Every day.



  • Everyone Wants To Work In London
    When the Boston Consulting Group polled more than 200,000 people in 189 countries,London trounced the rest of the world when it came to where they would move to work. Unprompted, 16% of respondents said they’d move to the city, well clear of New York’s 12.2%.

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    Boston Consulting Group

    That’s not entirely surprising when you look at London’s demographic makeup. Three million of London’s eight million inhabitants were born outside of the UK. In fact, the non-UK born population makes up 105% of the city's population growth between the 2001 and 2011 census. (Why 105%? Because native Brits left, causing negative growth, and the immigrants more than eclipsed that.)

    What’s more, the eurozone’s dismal growth prospects and eye-watering youth unemployment rates mean this trend likely isn’t going to slow any time soon.

    There have been major increases in the number of people moving to the UK from the rest of Europe. In 2007-08, 15,400 Italians registered to work in the UK, a figure that was up to 44,110 by 2013. Europe’s young workforce is increasingly migrating to the UK (where they don’t need visas to live and work), and a huge number find their way to London. One of the most well-educated generations in history is streaming to London to live and work, and that's an enormous benefit to the city.

    And Everyone Wants To Live Here Too
    London reigns at the top of Knight Frank’s global wealth report in 2014. Endless anecdotes in the reports show exactly where the world's wealthiest people want to own homes, and the British capital comes out ahead of New York.

    The cost of buying and renting is something that makes Londoners want to weep: but it's a side effect of the city's incredible success.

    In 2012-13, 49% of buyers in London's prime central market were not British, illustrating the huge demand from abroad. And they're not just buying to hold property as an investment: only 28% of buyers live outside the UK, showing that a huge number of international buyers want to live in the city.

    It's The Capital Of Digital Media
    Deloitte

    London-based media organizations dramatically outperform in Comscore’s English-language ratings.

    The two biggest English-language newspaper websites in the world are London-based British organisations. The Daily Mail’s "Mail Online" and The Guardian's website have broken into first and second place, according to ComScore’s traffic figures. That's even accounting for the fact that New-York-based newspapers have a far bigger native American audience than London-based newspapers can find in the UK.

    A Deloitte survey puts London not only as the world's leader of highly skilled workers in media (particularly digital media), but as one of the areas where it's extending a lead over the others. Check out the chart above. The report suggests that although US cities take the lead in terms of film and TV, the London is way out ahead in terms of digital media.

    And The Capital of Culture
    According to Japan’s Institute for Urban Strategies, London takes a commanding lead over New York on cultural grounds (along with every other major city). That’s based on a blend of how trend-setting the city is, cultural resources, and facilities for visitors.

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    REUTERS/Suzanne PlunkettThe Tall Ship Tectona, built in India in 1929, is moored outside the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich, the location of one of London's UNESCO world heritage sites.



    Part of this is down to a history that New York simply can’t match: in the 19th century, it became only the second city since the fall of the Roman empire to reach a population of over one million. Attractions like Westminster Hall (the great hall of the UK’s parliament) are almost twice as old as European colonization in the Americas, and four times older than the USA as a country.

    London has four UN world heritage sites, against New York’s one.

    It's not just British culture that's on offer. In GfK's survey of more than 5,000 people who visited some of the world's biggest cities, London ranks highest when visitors are asked whether they can "find people who appreciate my culture and with whom I could easily fit in."

    So sorry, New York. Sorry Seoul, sorry Paris, sorry Shanghai, sorry Singapore, Sorry Hong Kong. For now, London is the world's global capital.
    Sorry, New York, London Is The World's Capital City - Business Insider
@Peter C. Credle ,@gambit :cheers:
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Impressive :enjoy:
 
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Given our position geographically and our culture, language etc I think we will always be at the top or near it regardless of future powerhouses.

We are almost a centre hub of the world given our location, we are a reasonable distance away from the East coast of the USA(compared to most of the world), we are located close to the main powerhouses of Europe, Africa isnt that far either and alot of ME and Asia are only a 6 hour flight away, a fairly central location for world commerce. East Asia is the only area that is far but then again most the world is far from East Asia given the pacific ocean being gigantic.
 
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