Hotel owners in South Africa facing financial disaster as football fans fail to book up for World Cup

HOTEL owners in South Africa will miss out on a predicted World Cup bookings boom.


Organisers FIFA had expected 450,000 overseas fans to flood to the event, which begins in June.

Their latest estimate is just 350,000 - and some hotels have had their bookings halved by FIFA's official travel agents.

Supporters have been put off by the high cost of airfares to South Africa.

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