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Looking like FIFA somehow isn't the financial boon everyone claims it is (other than for the FIFA execs, who I'm sure are making bank).

74 sats \ 3 replies \ @unboiled 22h

So, why did FIFA book such big blocks to begin with when they're cancelling so many? Just to artificially increase prices?

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They might have just badly misjudged how strong demand would be

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66 sats \ 1 reply \ @unboiled 22h

Wait, so are FIFA acting as resellers of hotel rooms for supporters then?

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I don’t know. That’s just where my mind went.

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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @gsc360 20h

The caviat is in the end of the report

Airbnb says the World Cup is on course to be the "biggest hosting event in Airbnb's history", overtaking the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.

That doesn't mean FIFA ain't shit on the booking cancellations, happened in Brasil in 2014

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People genuinely do not want to travel to the US anymore.

I can't really blame them.

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