FIFA Cancels 5,000 Kansas City Hotel Bookings Amid World Cup FAIL

Local economic disappointment taking hold despite kickball hype . . . Here are the basics: 

With the World Cup coming to Kansas City this summer, the international governing body for the sport reserved up to 5,000 hotel rooms for many of the nights that the organization’s officials and business partners would be in town . . . But as the event drew closer, FIFA canceled the majority of those reservations — leaving local hotel managers to scramble to fill rooms this summer that they had hoped were already spoken for.

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FIFA booked tens of thousands of KC hotel rooms for World Cup, then canceled 75%

The global soccer organization was also able to drop most of those rooms without paying a cancellation fee, a perk that is not always granted to organizations blocking off a large number of rooms.