Concierge services by city: what separates one market from another

The same four engagement models turn up in every market. What differs is supply, meaning how many firms publish a presence, and the local calendar, which decides how far ahead a request has to be placed.

Markets covered
58
With a local calendar
55
With at least one indexed firm
18

What the index shows when it is read across markets

112 recurring fixtures are tracked across 55 markets, and the notice they demand is not evenly spread. The median market's hardest date asks for 16 weeks, but the top of the range is roughly twice that: Warsaw at 40, Monaco at 30, Sydney at 30 weeks. At the other end Dallas at 8, Atlanta at 8, Oregon at 10 weeks clear inside a normal planning cycle. The engagement model that suits you follows from which of those two groups you actually spend time in.

Timing concentrates as well. March carries 19 of the 112 fixtures here, more than any other month, while November carries 6. And 37 of the 55 markets fit their whole calendar inside a four-month span, which is the property that decides whether a market can be covered by a decision or has to be covered by a standing arrangement.

Supply is thinner than the market itself. 18 of the 58 markets carry at least one indexed firm, 9 of them carry exactly one, and 40 carry none. That last figure is a statement about published coverage rather than about availability: this index lists a firm in a market only where the firm publishes a page for it, so a market showing zero is one where the providers reach it from somewhere else. Where that is the case, the useful question is which neighbouring market a firm covers properly, and whether it will travel.

What does not vary is price. Fees are set per firm and per tier, so the four engagement models cost the same in every market on this list. The rate estimator works the bands out against a monthly volume, and the market report covers what the index shows about the firms themselves. The city pages exist for the one variable that is genuinely local: how far ahead a request has to be placed.

Market index

MarketFirms indexedFixtures trackedPeak
Los Angeles35September; February; March
New York44February and September; first Monday in May; spring
Phoenix03January; early February; February into March
Chicago12late July into early August; August
Dubai25December into January; January; last Saturday in March
London94late May; third week of June; late June into July
Montreal02late June into early July; June
Ontario02June; September
Las Vegas13January; November; December
Singapore21late September into October
Dublin02mid-March; August
Melbourne03January; March; first Tuesday in November
Kuala Lumpur02August; early October
Hawaii02the week after Easter; December
India12last week of January; March in Mumbai
Toronto01September
Cannes02May; June
Miami44February; late March; May
Atlanta024 July; September
Monaco13March; May; September
Bahamas02Boxing Day and New Year's morning; April into early May
Dallas11late September into October
Philippines04January; March or April; September
Boston21the third Monday of April
Abu Dhabi11early December
Paris03late May into early June; June; late September into early October
Amsterdam0227 April; July into the first weekend of August
Cape Town12early January; the last weekend of March
Denver02January; October
San Francisco02August; first or second week of October
Sydney03late February into early March; late May into mid-June; 31 December
Vancouver01late September into October
Warsaw01October
Berlin01February
Charleston01late May into early June
Glasgow01mid-January into early February
Hong Kong32March or mid-April; March
Indianapolis01the Memorial Day weekend in May
Mexico12late October into early November; 31 October into early November
New Orleans02February or early March; last weekend of April into the first weekend of May
Oslo0110 December
Puerto Rico01the third weekend of January
Rome01May
San Diego01late July
Santiago01March
Seattle02summer; Labor Day weekend
Stockholm01early December
Tampa01mid-January into early March
Tel Aviv03February; the second week of June; late June into early July
Thailand12April; November
Tokyo04the first days of January; January; late March into April
Washington D. C.01late March into mid-April
Madrid02early March; around 15 May
Oregon01late May into mid-June
Saudi Arabia21April

Frequently asked questions

How are these markets chosen?

The list follows where concierge demand actually concentrates rather than city size. Some entries are countries or regions rather than cities, because that is the level at which firms in this category publish their coverage.

Why do some markets show no firms?

Because no firm in this index publishes a page for them that can be checked. Only firms that publish enough to verify are listed, which leaves out the single-operator businesses that make up much of the supply in smaller markets. An empty count understates the market rather than describing it.

Do prices differ between these markets?

No. Fees are set per firm and per tier, not by location, so the same arrangement costs the same in Dubai as in Singapore. What differs is how far ahead a request has to be placed, which is what each market page is built around.

What does the fixtures count mean?

The number of recurring events tracked for that market: the ones that measurably change local availability. It is a measure of how often the market is difficult, not of how interesting it is.

How current are the dates?

Each market page carries the recurring season, which is stable, alongside the most recent confirmed edition, which is not. Where an organiser has not confirmed a date, only the season is shown.

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