Our Spotters live in the city they write about, speak the local language, write only about their favourite spots and keep their tips up-to-date.Concentration of economic power is the collection of power by one organisation.

Spotted by Locals (2008) is an online travel community publishing city guides in 82 cities.Īll content is created by hand-picked local writers and photographers. The GAWC institute also created a very cool graphic of interconnectivity between these world cities in 2010 (PDF, large!). Plenty of cities still to expand to for us :) Gamma cities are ones with a minor economic connection with the world economy. This category refers to cities which are most integrated with the global economy.Īlpha+ cities are the primary cities in the global economic network.Īn alpha city is a city that plays a huge role in the international community.īeta cities are ones with a moderate economic connection with the world economy. Spotted by Locals cities (many of which are in one of the categories) are linked if you want to check our latest tips for those cities. We believe that many popular cities are suffering from overtourism, so we encourage people to get off the beaten path and discover some less-known hidden gems.Īnyway, back to the point of this article: here’s a list with the latest data from 2020. While we do have guides dedicated to larger cities like London and New York, we take pride in writing about lots of less-visited cities as well, like those you’ll see lower down this list. Of course, the cultural and economic factors of “our” cities are important to us. Why are we writing about this? In case this is your first time visiting our blogs: Spotted by Locals is a travel company that creates blogs and apps, written by locals, for 80+ cities across Europe, North America and the Middle East.Ī team of dedicated locals in each city keeps an eye out for the best spots in their cities so that visitors and fellow locals can experience the best of that city. Beta and Gamma cities are smaller global cities that link economic regions to the worldwide web. Many factors are taken into account in this analysis, including cultural and political influence, although economic factors are the most important consideration.Īlpha cities are the primary nodes in the global economic network. It is considered the leading institute ranking the world’s cities.Ĭities are categorized as Alpha, Beta or Gamma cities based on their connectivity to the rest of the world. Every few years, the Globalization and World Rankings Research Institute ranks important global economic cities.

Global city economic power index