MAny major global cities have witnessed a significant decrease in competitiveness during the Covid-19s, where governments have tightened border restrictions and imposed difficult social restrictions, according to the Power Global 2021 city index (GPCI).
It remains to see whether these international centers, in the postpartum world, maintain these international centers to attract higher caliber workers. but , 2021 Global Power City Index-It was produced by the Mouory Memorial Institute for Urban Strategies in Tokyo-which has adapted most of the major cities with work trends from home and hybrid.
Peter Daban, a researcher at the Institute of Urban Strategies, says that although international travel is still difficult due to the restrictions of Covid, many cities have begun to relax social distance measures, with the high Covid-19 vaccines. Some cities have also started requesting the proof of vaccination to attend big events, eating in restaurants, or using public transport.
DUSTAN believes the Power City Index, this year, which was released on Wednesday, is useful to compare how cities were affected by Covid-19. He says: “The form or nature of urban attraction may turn, but its importance in attracting new works and talent will remain,” he says.
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For example, Hong Kong, who ranked first in the ten rank every year over the past seven years, has slipped to the thirteenth place in the ninth place in 2020. The Hong Kong government is among the most difficult restrictions of COVID-19 in the world, with up to three weeks of mandatory hotel rooms for travelers. The Asian Financial Center also had the largest decrease in the number of air passengers, by 88 %.
London is still the most attractive city, according to the Power Global city index, but its total result has declined, as the authors of the report attribute the decline to both the epidemic and the Bixet, which hindered its economy and the possibility of global access to it. The institute said: “The fact that all other European cities have increased their economies indicating that the UK’s exit from the European Union has started its influence, allowing other European cities to start catching in London.”
Tokyo has improved its total grades, and this is largely attributed to their Olympics and the 2020 Disabled Olympics and the improvements in the flexibility of work like Japan He adapts to work from home.
The Power City City Index evaluates and classifying global cities through “magnetic” using 70 indicators across six categories: economics, research, development, cultural interaction, living, environment and access.
In 48 cities that were evaluated this year, the study witnessed access to a huge blow; Compared to the year that has already started the global epidemic, the frequency of international flights between these cities decreased by almost 50 %.
However, the Institute of Urban Strategies reported some positive changes in 48 cities, despite the transmission of fewer people, including-more than half of them, witnessed an increase in joint work areas and declined in working hours.