Courtesy of Arksports

Objectives:
• To gauge industry awareness of global cities as locations for the
staging of major sports events.
• To measure and compare successful sports event host cities.
Methodology:
• Stage 1: ArkSports initially selected 20 cities based on ArkSports'
criteria including, numbers of high level sports events already hosted
or won between 2002 and 2010.
• Stage 2: A detailed analysis was compiled on the 20 cities.
• Stage 3: ArkSports conducted an Industry Survey with 50 selected
industry individuals (online and face-to-face) to gauge opinions on
which city in the world is the best at hosting major sports events.
• Stage 4: ArkSports devised a ranking system using points and
weightings that has positioned the cities relating to the areas
outlined in the analysis and following the responses from the
Industry Survey.
• Output: ArkSports has provided a definitive list of the ‘Top 20’ sports
host cities.

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I am suprised that ArkSports seems to be a UK site. Melbourne has a lot of great events on, but I am suprised that with only 2 first class stadiums it is considered in Londons leage for facilities - most AFL teams have very crappy little grounds or share the 2 big stadiums. Transport is poor compared to London - how are these nearly the same value? Melbourne more for past one off events? Surely not?!

Weather definitely, but Melbourne gets only a tiny fraction of Australias tourists, which in total, is much less than London gets - so no way for tourism. Legacy? of sports? London must easily trounce Melbourne in everything except AFL. It is the capital of the country that invented, or made famous, virtually every sport followed in Melbourne.

The scoring does seem very strange. CT with virtually no public transport gets the same transport rating as Paris with its fantastic subway and train network!? Would also be interesting to know how they selected the 20 cities because surely places like Toronto, Los Angeles, Barcelona etc etc are far more significant sporting cities than Zagreb, Kuala Lumpur... Probably commissioned by Melbourne.

i too thought it was commission by melbourne until i read up a bit on arksports...
what is strange e.g. cape town scoring higher than madrid and london and tokyo on facilities...where are these miraculous facilities? are these facilities that were venues to the specfici sporting events that took place in cape town or are they facilties in general?A?!?!?!?!?

It's funny how these people come up with figures. CT better facilities than London and Tokyo? Let's be real?

where is komatipoort?

Komatipoort is east of Nelspruit and is the border post leading into Mocambique.