With one in six people living with disability, ensuring that cities around the world are accessible to all is vital. But which cities are doing it best, and how?

What do disabled travellers look for when choosing a city to visit?

This is important not only to those of us with disability, but also for cities themselves as they seek to tap into a large and growing accessible travel market.

A wide-ranging survey by the Valuable 500 of 3,500 PWD in five countries – the US, UK, Australia, China and Japan – around their travel habits and experiences provides invaluable insight into this question. The 2022 survey not only highlights the barriers to travel for people with disability (PWD), but respondents were also asked to nominate the cities they found most accessible and why, from which a top 10 was compiled.