Quote from Hammer:
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.
Lets try this math with the official figures from FIFA:
Expected foreign tourists (I admit this is high): 445000
Average spend per day: R1750
Average days per person: 16
Total foreign spending: R12.46 billion
Add to this the legacy in terms of improved infrastructure, the extra domestic spending by South Africans, TV revenue (FIFA sold it for EUR 1 billion), and the 1.5 billion people who will watch it on TV and its probably pretty good!