There are always doubts about the economic impact of a country after a World Cup soccer.
However, the last tournament hosted by South Africa, has revealed some important facts, which mainly serve to prevent future organizations (Brazil-Russia-Qatar).
According to a study prepared by the National Department of Tourism (PND) of South Africa, together with other international agencies the last World Cup led the African country more than 309.000 tourists, which together invested about 400 million euros, that was a major contribution to the economy.
Main Data 2010 World Cup
- In total, 309,554 tourists came to South Africa for World Cup matches.
* Of the 309,554 tourists who came to the World Cup just 38% were visitors from Africa, Europe came to 24%, 13% of Central America and South America, while 11% came from North America ( U.S. and Mexico in particular).
* The country that sent more tourists to watch the World Cup in South Africa were the United States with 30.175 fans followed by Mozambique (neighboring country to South Africa) with 24,483 and Britain with 22.802 fans.
- The money spent by tourists who visited South Africa amounted to 390 million euros.
* Of the total spent by tourists € 103 million was spent by Europeans, 69 million followers in Central and South America and 40 million euros spent by the natives of Africa.
* The average expenditure of each visitor was Rands 11.800 (1.300 euros), well above the year 2008 (R8.400) and 2009 (R9.500).
- the total spent by the tourists, 30% was devoted to shopping, hotels 20%, food and beverages 19%, 16% entertainment and only 11% for transportation costs.
* On average, every fan I get to have a stay of 10.3 nights in South Africa, of which 79% stayed in hotels and 21% in the homes of friends or relatives.
a cost estimated at around 3.225 million Euros, can be seen that the benefits are clearly below costs, leaving only as big winners at FIFA itself and corporate sponsors who manage to gain stratospheric thanks to the huge exposure in the media.
Finally, everything was left as usual after the end of a World Cup host country with a debt greater than the benefits and our dear Joseph Blatter, FIFA's forgiveness with pockets full of dollars , Euros, Rand, and the odd souvenir made in china.
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