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Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by LAnative10
I would have placed Dallas in the top 20 most known cities to foreigners.
You would have a hard time telling me that San Antonio is more well known to foreigners than Dallas or Houston.
Since the study was done by Hotels.com, its heavily biased toward tourism.
It depends on what foreigners you mean, Spanish speaking people visit San Antonio more, it was a battle ground during the Texas revolution. But foreigners in Asia, Europe, and everywhere else can say they know of Houston and Dallas more than S.A.
Yeahh, they would be biased, S.A does reel in more tourists than Houston or Dallas.
The coasts, both west and east, will naturally be better known and more visited by foreigners. Simple geography. One exception would probably be Vegas.
People are looking a bit too much into the visitors list. Depending where you are talking about internationally, the cities they know will be different. For example: There are a lot of Hungarians in Cleveland, and they typically know Cleveland. Another example is Somalia, and Minneapolis and Columbus typically have a lot of Somali migrants, hence they may know those cities more. I look at it in the perspective of where people immigrated from in major cities -- they will usually still have family back in their homeland so they'd know where their relatives have migrated. Atleast from my travels, aside from cities like London or Melbourne (you get the point) where they are pretty well educated and familiar with most major US cities.
Why do you think adding Ft. Worth to Dallas would make a difference?
Why wouldnt it? If you took the whole area into consideration, it would have a higher hotel stay.
I dont trust the list as a source of which cities are most well known. Rather these are the cities that are the most popular among tourists. Hotels.com is a travel agency. They keep tabs of tourist traffic, not really biz traffic. I can say that with assurance because most business travelers like their hotel points and like to be able to cancel or reschedule at a whim.
Hotels.com are prepaid hotels that are slightly cheaper, but have no flexability and you dont get your reward points. Its a big no-no for business travelers.
While its not a bad list all together, it is a bad list for determining which cities are most known overall. It negates those who have to travel for business.
Why wouldnt it? If you took the whole area into consideration, it would have a higher hotel stay.
I dont trust the list as a source of which cities are most well known. Rather these are the cities that are the most popular among tourists. Hotels.com is a travel agency. They keep tabs of tourist traffic, not really biz traffic. I can say that with assurance because most business travelers like their hotel points and like to be able to cancel or reschedule at a whim.
Hotels.com are prepaid hotels that are slightly cheaper, but have no flexability and you dont get your reward points. Its a big no-no for business travelers.
While its not a bad list all together, it is a bad list for determining which cities are most known overall. It negates those who have to travel for business.
Adding Ft. Worth would add to Dallas' total hotel stays, but I highly doubt it would add anything at all to Dallas' overall "well knowness" internationally.
Adding Ft. Worth would add to Dallas' total hotel stays, but I highly doubt it would add anything at all to Dallas' overall "well knowness" internationally.
Im not sure about that. I was talking about the hotel stays.
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