There's quite a bit of noise from the hotel industry that they aren't seeing the uptick they expected in a lot of the host cities. Sounds like a ton of the tickets were scooped by resellers in some markets and the scalpers are holding a lot of unsold tickets. On top of that, some markets, especially in the USA, are not seeing overseas bookings. If some of the ladies want to comment they certainly can on the pooning side, but Vancouver has big events all the time and 50 or 60 thousand cruise ship passengers in town weekly during the summer anyhow. The market will adjust and guys will vote with their wallets. You can either participate or avoid it, but please let's keep the discussion here within the rules. We have to take down complaints about prices almost every single day.
For one, I hope the whole thing is a massive failure. FIFA is ruining soccer with their corruption and bullshit. I'd love to see half empty stadiums. The economics of sport are completely out of whack.