When it comes to selection a host city, affordability is important and proximity is helpful — but an event won’t be wonderful if attendees don’t feel safe. For the third year in a row, Montréal has ranked among the world’s top safest cities for travel — and THE safest city to visit in the Americas — by the travel insurance experts Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection, who produce an annual list of the World’s Safest Cities for travel.
Montréal rolls out the red carpet for all visitors
The methodology behind BHTP’s survey starts with readily available lists of the most popular international and domestic cities for travellers, culled from Expedia, USA Today, Forbes and other sources. This provided a shortlist of 31 cities for survey respondents to rank. Only travellers who had been to the cities ranked them on a variety of safety measures, using their first-hand knowledge as a yardstick. To those survey ratings BHTP added the most recent safe-cities index from The Economist, city ratings from GeoSure Global, and the Current Crime Index from Numbeo, and weighted everything to get a final result.
Year after year, Montréal is honoured by being among the top cities in that shortlist, nearing the top on almost all fronts. As a city, we have relatively low crime rates compared to other major North American cities, as well as famously safe transportation options, health measures and spirit of openness and accessibility: Montréal welcomes, even thrives on, difference.
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