Hello and welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. My name is Sam Gruet and today we're asking why are more cities going 24 hour?

New York is often called the city that never sleeps. But that technically isn't true with last orders at 4 a.m.

Only Berlin and Tokyo truly have a claim to that title,

as both legally serve alcohol 24 hours a day.

But one place hoping to join them is here in Montreal, Canada.

Downtown, like, St. Laurent, San Denei-Goyal also. There's a bunch of clubs,

there's a bunch of bars. Today we'll take you to the dance floors of downtown to ask,

why is this place, and plenty of others around the world, investing so heavily in the

nighttime economy? Once they really embrace life and nightlife culture, you see that that has billions of dollars of impact in the local economy. Once they really embrace nightlife and nightlife culture, you see that that has

billions of dollars of impact in the local economy. Because trying to

make a city a 24-hour destination requires more than just

extending last orders. You can't just say, here are some 24-hour

bars go nuts, but there's no 24-hour public transport.

There's no extra sort of security.

That's coming up on today's Business Daily.

It's Friday evening in downtown Montreal, Canada's French-speaking capital, on Ruebeari.

Pretty much the centre of the city's nightlife. There are bars and

restaurants all along this wide pedestrianised street and I'm chatting to people just starting

their evening on what they say is the best thing about Montreal's nightlife. The best thing is

the diversity. So you want to go for a blues, there's there, you want to go for a game bar,

you can go there, you want to go to, like, you have a lot of options. That's a great thing.

I think that's great is people are very social, especially during the summer you can just walk around,

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