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If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa

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  • MATHESON, Victor
  • PEETERS, Thomas
  • SZYMANSKI, Stefan

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Hosting a major international sporting event is a costly affair for the organizing country. Growth in tourism is often cited as one of the economic benefits, which should allow the host to earn back these costs. In this paper we use monthly country-by-country arrival data to assess the impact of organizing the FIFA 2010 World Cup on tourism in South Africa. We find that South Africa attracted around 200,000 extra arrivals from non-SADC countries during the event. Participating countries and South Americans contributed most to this increase. These figures are far below most projections made before the event.

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  • MATHESON, Victor & PEETERS, Thomas & SZYMANSKI, Stefan, 2012. "If you host it, where will they come from? Mega-Events and Tourism in South Africa," Working Papers 2012015, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics.
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    1. Morocco lost the Cup of Nations over irrational fears about Ebola
      by Victor Matheson, Professor of Economics and Accounting at College of the Holy Cross in The Conversation on 2014-11-14 12:19:13
    2. Counting tourists
      by Johan Fourie in Johan Fourie's Blog on 2012-08-31 12:20:30
    3. Morocco lost the Cup of Nations over irrational fears about Ebola
      by Victor Matheson in The Sports Economist on 2014-11-14 21:52:39
    4. Who are most hurt by South Africa’s new visa regulations?
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    Keywords

    World Cup; Sports; Tourism; South Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism

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