Newsflash: NOBODY Believes 650K Visitors To Kansas City For World Cup

Today . . . Dead-tree media stumbles upon a truism and all of us can now admit that VisitKC is full of it. 

Here's the money line from a local columnist that picks up where TKC left off sometime last year . . . 

Kansas City officials project 650,000 visitors for the 2026 World Cup, but experts and fine print raise questions about the assumptions behind that number. The figure is derived from 2.1 million projected “visitor days,” and critics say it may be too optimistic given stadium capacity, travel patterns and geopolitical factors.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

KC's 650,000 World Cup visitor projection faces scrutiny: Doing the numbers | Opinion

David Hudnall breaks down the 650,000 figure into stadium capacity, visitor-day math, travel patterns and geopolitical headwinds.

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