Traffic changes due to World Athletics Championships Budapest
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International interest towards the World Athletics Championships (WAC) Budapest will host this month is huge, tickets have already been purchased in almost a hundred countries for the largest sporting event in Hungary’s history, the CEO of the company organising the championships said on Tuesday.
“Up until today, tickets have been sold in 99 countries. We expect around 50,000 foreign visitors to come to Budapest exclusively to watch the championships who will spend some 200,000 guest nights here,” Balázs Németh told a press conference.
“As we have already said, close to one billion people will watch the TV broadcasts around the world, and we want all those on the other side of the globe to see that Hungary, and its capital city Budapest, is one of the world’s best places,” he said in central Erzsebet Square, where a huge countdown board has been set up showing the number of days left until August 19, the start of the event.
“We have placed this board here, on this square because we will open on August 19 a Fan Zone here as well, in addition to the one to be set up at the National Athletics Centre, the venue of the championships,” said Németh. In the two fan zones, visitors will have the opportunity to try athletics games, he added.