Kingston, Ontario 3rd best small town in Canada – Kingston | Globalnews.ca

Resonance Consultancy, a leading consultant in real estate, tourism and economic development, has come out with a list of the 25 top performing Canadian cities with populations under 200,000 and Kingston made the list.

Limestone City ranked third behind Victoria and Kelowna, BC.

The results are based on a unique methodology that analyzes key statistics as well as user-generated reviews and online activity across channels such as Google, Facebook and Instagram.

“Our Best Cities ranking has been the global benchmark for measuring city performance since 2014, used by global governments and media such as National Geographic and AFAR to evaluate the trajectory of urban centers in both large and small worlds ,” Chris Fair, President and CEO of Resonance.

“The ranking of the best cities is made up of the experiential factors that people consider most important in choosing a city to live in and visit, as well as the empirical factors that business decision-makers consider important to a business or investment,” he said. Told.

Resonance’s Best Cities ranking considers cities as places to live, work or travel using a wide range of factors that show positive correlations with employment, investment and/or attracting visitors. These range from quality culinary experiences and the number of museums to jobs, direct flight connections, and mentions of each city on Instagram.

Here is the top 10:

1) Victoria, BC
2) Kelowna, BC
3) Kingston, Ont.
4) Niagara Falls, Ont.
5) Waterloo, Ont.
6) North Vancouver, BC
7) Burlington, Ont.
8) Guelph, Ont.
9) Frederickton, NB
10) Lethbridge, Alta.

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