Gallery: Annual Condé Nast survey published of best U.S. cities for travel

With tourism in the United States rebounding toward its pre pandemic level, the results of Condé Nast Traveler’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards for the Best U.S. Cities have been published: for the sixth year in a row, Chicago was selected as the best American city.

“We have world-class restaurants, top-tier hotels and meeting spaces, cultural institutions and entertainment venues that can rival the best in the world and vibrant, diverse neighborhoods that make sure there is something for every visitor,” said Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot about the results. 

The annual ranking, which is in its 35th year, garners hundreds of thousands of reader responses. A statement from Chicago’s tourism board Choose Chicago notes that more than 240,000 readers weighed in on the question about the best American cities this year. The results were published in Condé Nast Traveler’s November issue.

Meanwhile, Choose Chicago recently released performance data from summer 2022 that “shows leisure and business travel approaching a full return to 2019 levels,” the statement continues. Specifically, hotel room demand during June, July and august exceeded 3 million room nights, representing “nearly 90% of summer 2019 levels. Summer 2022 group hotel room demand, which represents rooms occupied specifically by delegates of large meetings and conventions, exceeded summer 2019 levels, with 1.06 million hotel room nights in summer 2022 compared to 1.03 million in summer 2019.”

The top 10 large U.S. cities ranked in Condé Nast Traveler can be found in the gallery above. Follow the link to view the complete results on Condé Nast Traveler’s website, as well as a list of best U.S. small cities.