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Nashville is a Top Choice
Nashville’s culturally diverse and friendly environment makes it a favorite place for conventioneers and tourists, as well as a great place to work, live and raise a family. The following honors and rankings are just a few of Music City’s shining accolades.
- In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine gave Nashville the title of Best Music Scene for its historical music venues, celebrity residents and record stores.
- Travel + Leisure named Nashville #2 for Live Music, #3 in their 2011 “America’s Favorite Cities” Affordable Getaway and Friendliest Cities rankings, and #6 for America’s Best Cities for Fall Travel based on the variety of music festivals and vintage and antique shopping.
- Nashville ranked #3 on Kiplinger’s Top 10 Best Value Cities for 2011. The ranking focused on metro areas with vibrant economies, reasonable living costs and great amenities.
- Nashville was named one of the top 10 U.S. cities for college grads by Livability.com in 2011. The website looked at employment opportunities, salaries, population age and nightlife in choosing its top 10.
- Travel + Leisure readers have vouched for the quality of Nashville’s burgeoning culinary scene, voting it the 16th best U.S. city for foodies in 2011.
- Businessweek included Nashville in its “America’s 50 Best Cities” ranking in 2011 for its unusually high number of universities and parks.
- Nashville was ranked 16th in the nation in Sporting News’ “Best Sports Cities” rankings for 2010-2011.
- Bridgestone Arena ranks 4th in the United States and 12th in the world for concert attendance, according to international trade publication Pollstar. The facility has hosted more than 13 million guests, from sporting events to concerts.
- The Daily Meal named Nashville’s Restaurant Week one of the top 10 in the country for 2011.
- Travel + Leisure magazine named Nashville #8 on its list of “America’s Best Nightlife,” with high marks for its local beers, live music and friendly locals.
- In a 2011 study by Sperling Research, Nashville was named America’s Manliest City due, in part, to the number of professional spots teams, popularity of hunting & fishing, and concentration of barbeque restaurants.
- The Hermitage Hotel was named one of the top hotels in the world in the 2011 Reader’s Choice Awards of Condé Nast Traveler magazine.
- In Forbes’ list of “America’s Next Big Boom Towns,” Nashville was ranked #3 as a strong place to settle, make money and start businesses.
- Nashville was ranked #7 in Travel + Leisure magazine’s 2011 list of “America’s Best Burger Cities,” with special mention of Nashville original Burger Up.
- The Hermitage Hotel was named the 6th best hotel in the entire nation by U.S. News and World Report in 2011.
- A 2011 Harris Interactive survey found Nashville tied for the 7th most popular city in the country because of its rich history of music, business, culture and education.
- In 2011, Nashville was ranked the #4 Best Affordable U.S. Destination in U. S. News & World Report’s first-ever “Best Vacations” rankings.
- Nashville was named the #3 Best City for Minority Entrepreneurs in 2011 by Forbes magazine.
- In 2011, the Lane Motor Museum was named in MSNBC.com’s list of “12 Car Museums Worth a Detour.”
- In 2010, Travel + Leisure readers ranked Nashville the #1 city for Live Music and Concerts and #1 for Affordable Getaway and Affordable Hotels. Other top rankings in the poll include #3 Friendly, #4 Barbecue, #5 Antique Stores, #6 Vintage Stores and Flea Markets, #6 Safety, #7 Hamburgers and #7 Wild Weekends.
- The Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau was awarded the 2010 Successful Meetings Pinnacle Award which recognizes the nation’s best convention and visitors bureaus, hotels and conference centers.
- In 2010 the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau received Corporate & Incentive Travel’s Award of Excellence for outstanding service to the meetings and incentive travel industry.
- Meetings & Conventions awarded the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau the Gold Service Award in 2009 for consistent excellence in serving the meetings industry as selected by corporate and association meeting planners.
- Every year since 2007 the Mobil Travel Guide has bestowed upon The Hermitage Hotel its coveted Five Star Award, making it the only hotel in Tennessee to hold the distinction.
- In 2010 Walkscore.com, the online group that rates walkable neighborhoods, ranked Nashville one of America’s top 30 most walkable cities.
- Nashville is 10th on the list of the best cities to see live rock music in 2010, based on a study by tourdates website Songkick.com.
- In 2010, Travel+ Leisure Magazine ranked Nashville’s Hermitage Hotel “one of the world’s top 500 hotels.”
- In 2010 Nashville was ranked the 7th most popular city in the nation, according to a Harris Interactive Poll.
- Entrepreneur.com featured the top cities for entrepreneurs in 2010. Nashville was named one of five cites categorized as a “creative center,” a place where “creativity and capitalism make sweet music together.”
- In its 2010 Restaurant Awards, Wine Spectator Magazine recognized west Nashville’s 360 Bistro for their “well-chosen selection of quality producers” and bestowed an Award of Excellence.
- Prince’s Hot Chicken made its debut in Travel + Leisure Magazine’s 2010 article “America’s Best Fried Chicken.”
- In 2010, the neo-speakeasy Patterson House has been named one of the Top 10 new cocktail bars in the country by Bon Appétit Magazine.
- In its 2010 article “Golf’s Best Kept Secrets: 10 Great Golf Cities,” Livability.com names Nashville as its #5 top lesser-known city for golfers.
- Nashville’s Springwater Supper Club makes an appearance on “Playboy’s Guide to America’s Greatest Bars” in 2010, landing in the Best Dive Bar category. It’s one of only 40 bars to make the guide, which lists Best Bars and Best Late-Night Eats as well.
- Trip Advisor’s 2010 Travelers’ Choice Awards ranked Hutton Hotel as one of the Top 10 Trendiest Hotels and the Hermitage Hotel as one of the Top 10 Luxury Hotels in the United States.
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