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World Cup Host Cities Face a Tourism Reckoning as Hotel Bookings Lag Expectations

Twelve American cities are preparing to host the world's most-watched sporting event, but early hotel booking data suggests the anticipated tourism windfall may not materialise as forecast. The gap between official projections and actual demand is prompting hard questions about venue-city contracts, infrastructure assumptions, and the limits of mega-event economic modelling.
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This article was filed from New York. Monexus covered the 2026 World Cup host-city announcement in 2022 with emphasis on the economic commitments made by municipal governments; the current booking data represents the first major public-facing indicator of how those commitments are tracking against market reality.

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