World Cup threat to $30bn America boom with one million tickets still unsold and hotel and flight sales ‘underwhelming’

THE 2026 FIFA World Cup is posing a threat to the United States’ expected $30 billion boom. Hotel and flight sales have proven lacklustre with one million tickets still unsold ahead of the World Cup. Overseas soccer fans appear uninterested in attending the upcoming World Cup in the USA. International fans are choosing to boycott the tournament, according to the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s US Hotel Outlook Report. Nearly 80 percent of hotels in nine American host cities claim that they are operating behind initial projections. It has been suggested that FIFA releasing 70 percent of its room blocks...