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Springfield, MO
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Springfield, MO
Kansas City will host six World Cup matches in June and July and serve as home base for four national teams. Boosters say the World Cup could spur $653 million in spending in the regional economy.
The 650,000 visitors estimate comes from a projection of 2.1 million total “visitor days” over the course of the event.
“We have seen that number consistently with all the research that we've been pulling,” said Kathy Nelson, President and CEO of Visit KC.
A “visitor day” represents one person who spends a day and a night in the city, including repeats. So a person who spends two days and nights would count as two visitor days. Visit KC used materials from FIFA, data from past large-scale sporting events and Kansas City-specific travel data to create the figure.
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