Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: lessons for developing countries

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Title:	Tourism and the 2010 World Cup: lessons for developing countries
Authors:	Peeters, Thomas Matheson, Victor Szymanski, Stefan
Year:	2014
Periodical:	Journal of African Economies (ISSN 0963-8024)
Volume:	23
Issue:	2
Pages:	290-320
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	tourism economic models football 2010
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejt031
Abstract:	Over recent years the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations have secured the right to host several major international sporting events. Growth in tourism from developed countries is crucial to turn these events into a successful strategy for economic development. In this paper the authors use monthly country-by-country arrival data to assess the impact of organising the FIFA 2010 World Cup on tourism in South Africa. They find that South Africa attracted around 220,000 extra arrivals from non-Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries during the event, and 300,000 over the entire year. These numbers are less than the predictions made by the organisers prior to the event and imply that the total cost per extra non-SADC visitor amounted to 13,000 dollars. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]