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emerging destination index

Using the Emerging Markets Index released by Mastercard back in October, I’ve created something I’m going to call the Emerging Destination Index as a tool to provide clues as to which non-traditional tourist destinations may provide the fundamental infrastructure to sustain the type of travellers that I’ve been discussing over the last little while in [...]

January 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Cities, Global Citizen, Statistics, Travel | 4 comments

cities with most twitter users

Continuing with the exploration of cities with a population actively engaged in global communications, here is a snapshot of the top 30 cities with most tweets (twitter messages) as calculated by TwitterLocal. The link presents the top 30 in the last 24 hours, here is a snapshot at the time of publishing:
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Tokyo – 13.5%
New [...]

December 11th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Cities, Statistics, social networks | Leave a comment

c40 climate summit

Next week the Mayors from 40 of the world’s largest cities will gather in New York to review progress, share best practices, identify collaboration opportunities and set action plans to fight climate change. The C40 Large Cities Climate Summit program will include topics such as Beating Congestion, Decentralized Energy, Efficient Water Supply, Climate [...]

May 13th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Cities, Global Warming | 3 comments