{"id":581,"date":"2008-11-26T00:05:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T22:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2008-11-27T00:19:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T22:19:34","slug":"world-cup-visitors-will-look-for-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/accommodation\/world-cup-visitors-will-look-for-value\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup visitors will look for value"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>More than 800 000 soccer fans will travel to South Africa in 2010 to support their team at the World Cup event.\u00a0 Of these soccer fans, 57 % will buy tickets for matches, while the remaining 43 % will see the matches at fan parks.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the estimate by Gillian Saunders of Grant Thornton\u00a0Strategic Solutions, reports Business Report<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Saunders is quoted as saying:” It’s a big thing.\u00a0 People are not saying they are not going to travel, but what is likely to happen is that they will look for cheaper accommodation and there will probably be fewer tours.\u00a0\u00a0 The expectation is that by 2010 it will be the beginning of the upturn.\u00a0 Others say (that) for South Africa things will start to change in the second half of 2009.\u00a0\u00a0 The outlook should be more postive and travel proved to be more resilient even when the markets are down.”<\/p>\n

The Grant Thornton study found that R 33 billion will be spent on World Cup 2010 infrastructure and stadia, the study shows.<\/p>\n

Last week Danny Jordan, head of the Local Organising Committee, warned that the attendance of World Cup 2010 may not meet expectations due to the global financial crisis,\u00a0as fewer fans may be able to afford to come to South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 800 000 soccer fans will travel to South Africa in 2010 to support their team at the World Cup event.\u00a0 Of these soccer fans, 57 % will buy tickets for matches, while the remaining 43 % will see the matches at fan parks.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the estimate by Gillian Saunders of Grant Thornton\u00a0Strategic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[264,32367,529,532,530,128,32388,531],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t