{"id":48237,"date":"2014-06-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/gulf-arabs-spend-us-500000-on-visa-during-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:56:02","slug":"gulf-arabs-spend-us-500000-on-visa-during-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/gulf-arabs-spend-us-500000-on-visa-during-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Arabs spend US$ 500,000 on Visa during World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Tourists from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a bloc composed of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Oman have spent over US$ 500,000 in Brazil using Visa cards during the World Cup. The figures were released by Dubai newspaper <em>Gulf News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The spending took place from June 12th to 15th this year. Tourists from Saudi Arabia and the Emirates accounted for over 70% of total GCC spending so far during the Cup in Brazil. <\/p>\n<p>The sum is five times higher than in the same period last year and up 47% from the first four days of the Confederations Cup, held from June 15th to 18th, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These figures reflect the significant impact that mega-sports events like the World Cup may have on host countries&rsquo; local business,&rdquo; said Ihab Ayoub, Visa&rsquo;s general manager for the Middle East and North Africa, according to <em>Gulf News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Expenditure by GCC tourists is part of a global sum of US$ 27 million spent by tourists from around the world using Visa cards during the World Cup. The company is one of the championship&rsquo;s sponsors. <\/p>\n<p>The highest spenders using Visa cards in the first days of the event were from the United States (US$ 6.6 million), United Kingdom (US$ 6.3 million) and France (US$ 1.7 million), according to information from the company.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This positive trend is in line with Brazil&rsquo;s expectations that over 600,000 will visit the country during the event, including a number of tourists from the Middle East, fuelling the economy,&rdquo; said Ayoub, according to the Dubai newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-177268\">Aurea Santos\/ANBA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount was spent by tourists from the region during the first days of the world, according to the credit card company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":177268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"wps_subtitle":"The amount was spent by tourists from the region during the first days of the world, according to the credit card company.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}