Five Key Trends Shaping Cities Over the Next 20 Years
21 Jun 21Euromonitor International has identified five main trends that are shaping the future of cities: Digitalisation and connectivity, sustainability, smart planning, rapid growth in emerging and developing markets and clean and frictionless…
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Top 100 City Destinations: From Adversity to Recovery
11 Mar 21 | UTC: 09:29 AMThe Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has severely impacted the tourism sector globally, with inbound arrivals to city destinations declining by 60% in 2020. However, even though things may look bleak now, we will travel again. In this webinar Rabia Yasmeen discusses…
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The Future of Mobility: An Interview with Matthew Barrie, UK Country Manager at Bolt
13 Feb 21Euromonitor International’s Cities Consultant, Fransua Vytautas Razvadauskas interviews Matthew Barrie, the UK country manager at Bolt about current industry trends in the shared mobility market. Matthew speaks about the regulatory and legal…
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5 Key Trends in City Travel for 2021
27 Jan 21The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the fragility of the travel and tourism sector. Cities were especially impacted, as travel activity halted due to restrictions, social distancing, disrupted mobility and lifestyle changes. Watch the video to learn…
Caroline Bremner
Retail Innovation in Cities since Coronavirus
22 Jan 21Euromonitor International estimates that some 5% of all non-grocery retail stores in Western Europe and North America permanently closed in 2020 due to lower footfall, operational challenges and the stiff competition from online retailing. In the UK,…
Maria Bogdanova
Wir brauchen neue Konzepte für eine digitale Innenstadt
19 Nov 20Es ist an der Zeit um über Innenstädte zu sprechen. Die vergangenen Jahre und nicht zuletzt die Coronapandemie haben zu einer Verödung der Stadtkerne geführt, die kaum mehr zurückzudrehen ist und die eine gesellschaftliche Diskussion darüber längst…
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Coronavirus Changing Aspects of City Life
12 Nov 20The Coronavirus has had a large impact on cities, with 90 percent of all cities analysed by Euromonitor recording negative real GDP growth in 2020. Depending on the severity and length of the pandemic, more businesses are likely to go bankrupt,…
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Top Five Trends Shaping the Future of Cities
17 Jul 20Cities and urban consumers are subject to an array of forces which shape their future characteristics, stemming from technological advances, consumer lifestyle changes and economic growth patterns. Understanding the long-term trends is critical as…
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Which Countries and Cities Are Most Vulnerable to Coronavirus?
26 Mar 20This article is part of a series on COVID-19 focusing on how the outbreak is affecting industries. Three months after the first outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in China, it is now known that older age and underlying health conditions are risk…
Lan Ha
Putting the World’s Most Influential Cities Under the Microscope
18 Mar 20The world is home to thousands of cities, but only a select few hold global significance. Based on the expert judgement of financial, political, economic and cultural influence, a list of 10 cities was chosen: New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong…
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How are Megalopolises Changing the Global Economy?
26 Nov 19Megalopolises are sets of adjacent cities that form continued urbanized regions. Unlike megacities, megalopolises are defined by their economic size. Euromonitor identifies 20 megalopolises worldwide. Fransua Vytautas Razvadauskas, Senior City…
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Are City Governments Ruining the E-Scooter Fad?
26 Aug 19After hitting city streets in the last few years, electric scooters (e-scooters) have gained popularity as novel and convenient urban mobility devices, servicing last-mile journeys. They have appealed to the environmentally conscious as effective…
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The Sustainability Model for Building New Cities
3 Aug 19Urbanisation and sustainability are central themes in current global trends. Projections by Euromonitor International suggest 60% of the world’s population will be living in cities or urban conurbations by 2030. Simultaneously, the consequential…
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Brexit on Hold
4 Jul 19The original Brexit deadline of 29 March 2019, two years after the triggering of Article 50, has been and gone, with the U.K. still a member of the European Union (EU), three years after the referendum that ended in a vote to leave. In addition, the…
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Managing Future Growth as a Top 100 City Destination
23 Jan 19Altogether, the top 100 cities are expected to grow 7.5% with some cities, such as Jerusalem at nearly 38%—far outstripping that. According to the report, total global arrivals today are around 1.4 billion trips, but this is set to rise rapidly to…
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Business Impact of Ethnic Diversity in Western European Cities
16 Oct 17 | UTC Time: 10:41 AMThe number of foreign citizens rose from 10 million to 14 million over the last decade in Western Europe’s major cities. Tracking migration trends allows businesses to adapt their strategy and provides new opportunities to target the changing ethnicity of…
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Doing Business beyond South Africa: Growth and Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Cities
12 Jul 16Cities are at the forefront of the impressive economic changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. These urban areas boast larger shares of the region's middle class and consumer spending, as well as households with modern lifestyles, making them a lucrative target for…
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