Top 6 Cities trump New York

I'm off to Amsterdam today for the Aromatics Conference. Why Amsterdam again? Because even in boom business times, and these are not they, conference-going chemical types like to look as if they're on a business trip, and not as if they're off to the beach. If we set a conference in the Bahamas or Phuket, they say, they will not come.

So the Blog's eyes lit up on reading this article in the Times today: "New York's not so great - Cities that Beat the Big Apple."

1 Buenos Aires

2 London

3 Tel Aviv

4 Berlin

5 Mumbai

6 Madrid

Since EPCA was just in Berlin, and next year's APIC is already set for Mumbai, and IP Week is always in London, that leaves .....