Time for a mini-gloat! The Economist has just released its 2006 Best Business Travel Destinations, article here.
The Anglosphere rules ... and Canada (as hard as it is to admit, living here in Calgary) rules "just a wee bit better", eh.

I find Cleveland's posistion as the highest CONUS interesting. Not that long ago it was an industrial city on a large dirty lake.
Posted by: M. Thompson at November 23, 2005 02:50 PMCleveland's nickname used to be "The Mistake by the Lake". I would be interested in the Economist's criteria for these rankings.
Posted by: Jim Bennett at November 23, 2005 03:37 PMWorthless. Minneapolis outranks NYC? Buenos Aires beats Taipei? They based the comparisons on quality-of-life considerations and ignored the thing that matters most: business opportunity.
If you achieve your business objectives it follows that your destination is a good one for business travel.