Wowsers....that is about 45 flights @400 per flight =18,000 people and if each one spends $1,000 in SA that is $18,000,000
The cost of he new stadiums and refurbishing the old ones , according to F2010 website is:
$2,222,000,000.
It's not as simple as that and we shall never know the reality. The gvt will massage the figures.
People I know have been telephoned today to ask them please if they would like to come to Kruger Park in June/July. They had been told no chance at all. The bookings are not coming in from overseas. Anyway, these people will not go now. They have no wish to be even in the same game park as football fans, always seen as drunk and not friendly to ecology. Who would want to holiday anywhere near them? Local tourism will possibly be dead in June July.
South African tourist industry has made a mistake in judging the English and the Germans. You see, these people will not come in great numbers if they know that this is rip off tourist South Africa. If South Africa later tries to lower the prices at the last moment, these people will not change their decision not to come. They will say 'hard lines, rip off artist hotels and airlines, go suffer!'
South Africa's projected bill for hosting the 2010 World Cup has ballooned to over four times the original cost.
Figures released by the organising committee on Wednesday put the total cost at US$1.59 billion, far in excess of the original estimate of US$295m.
This is from the BBC dated October 18th, 2006! That makes the real cost of the stadiums just about eight times the original estimate. That is a little bit of a bad budget hole.
Last edited by Der absolute Hammer; 4th Mar 2010 at 15:31.