World Cup 2010 in numbers

A South African Tourism info website is quoting South Africa's Local Organising Committee (LOC) Chief Operations Officer Nomfanelo Magwentshu with the following numbers:

• 650 527 World Cup™ tickets are sold by now
• 304 000 have been sold internationally
• Most tickets were bought by football fans from the US - more than 80000
• About 25 000 fans are expected to come to South Africa from the UK
• Sales of tickets in Africa (other than SA) have been very low
• same in South America
• 21 930 Fifa officials and staff, officials of other associations and media will be in the country for the 2010 World Cup™
• Most stadiums are now almost ready – Soccer City is at 90% , Durban at 95%, Polokwane at 95% & Greenpoint at 85%. All other stadiums are ready.
• More than 20 000 jobs were created in building the World Cup stadiums
• About R55bn was added to South Africa’s GDP by the World Cup so far
• R70bn is the spend on roads infrastructure for 2010 so far
• At least 25 new hotels have been built for World Cup™ so far
• South Africa expects 4,1% more tourists (year on year) in 2010

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