Business travel ranking

Business and pleasure

Cities in Canada, Australia and America remain the best destinations for business travel, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit

See article

Readers' comments



I've been to Detroit several times not as a business traveler but driving through, and it gave me one of the most frightening experience once. First time I saw drunks all over the street, only cars I see are Mad Max style old crap, and you have to slip money under bullet proof window to buy gas. It must have been the wrong side of town, but you get the idea, and it is right off interstate 97 (?).

Just John,
There are there on the list, but not ranked nearly as high as these two cities.


@ wack-intelligence

Having visited Jakarta many times (and always checked into a CNNed 5 star hotel like a ‘good businessman’ would), either [wack-intelligence] is right in what he says here, or I had been under reporting my travel expenses reports all these years.


Per diem rates not withstanding, why would a business traveler be in Detroit? Why not rate cities based on business reasons to be there?
If you were to follow the logic of this paper, any low cost but pretty resort should be on your next business trip, damn the productivity!
This is not to suggest that Detroit is in any way a resort...other than the last kind.

Just John

Please ask the editorial department to correct the mention of Atlanta and Detroit, and have them immediately replaced with Denver and San Francisco.

otherwise, the outcome is not realistic. Have you ever actually been to either of these places?


"... if you stick to [Detroit's] suburbs or cross the river into Windsor, Canada, theres alot you can see in terms of entertainment ..."

Entertainment in Windsor. Yep, I can attest to that. :-)


Australia has two cities in the Top Five - and we are only a nation of twenty million people !

We must be doing something right !


I spent a few weeks in Detroit a few years ago--if you stick to the suburbs or cross the river into Windsor, Canada, theres alot you can see in terms of entertainment, museums, shopping, good restaurants--maybe the relatively cheap lodging compared to other cities is what justifies this.


How did Detroit make it on there? I keep trying to think of a good reason besides its decent airport, but I simply don't get it. This really deserves justification.


I like how risking your personal security and dealing with absent infrastructure only adds up to a 60% intolerable business trip.


Why a business traveler will spend 600+ on a trip to Jakarta? Does it come with a sex tour? I often take a good crack at the intelligence of the Economist's IU, I see crazy people. :)



Products and events


Take our weekly news quiz to stay on top of the headlines

