Shohei Ohtani will cause an increase in the number of visitors to Los Angeles and New York to see a World Series game
The World Series is just about to start but Los Angeles Dodgers y New York Yankees They have already won their own championships, beyond the National and American leagues.
The city of Los Angeles has received more than half a million visitors from Japan during the Major League season.
According to a report from ABC Los Angeles, the city’s Convention and Tourism Chamber considered that the vast majority of visitors arrived motivated by the presence of the Dodgers superstar, Shohei Ohtaniwho is in his first season with the Dodgers.
“We know that between 80 and 90 percent of travelers come to Los Angeles from Japan to see a Dodgers game,” agency spokesman Bill Karz told Eyewitness News.
In New York, the situation has increased for the confrontations against the Yankees, in what will be their first World Series against the Dodgers in 43 years and the first since 2009.
The New York metropolitan area expects a large influx of visitors from Japan and other parts of Asia to see the maximum of three games that the Yankees can host at home, as happened in the National League Championship Series against the New York Metsalthough there are still no counts with official figures.
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“We’ve had a lot of Japanese visitors all year,” said an employee at a hotel in downtown Los Angeles, located 5 miles from the stadium. “Entire families come from their country and others live in other parts of the United States.”
The price of staying in hotels, food, souvenirs and, above all, tickets has increased exponentially for tourism in Los Angeles, where the first two games of the Fall Classic will be played on Friday and Saturday.
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The least expensive tickets to Dodger Stadium for Game 1 of the World Series were around $1,000, without the right to a seat, and more than $1,200 in the farthest parts of home plate for Game 1 of the World Series.
At Yankee Stadium, where a maximum of three games will be played, starting with Game 3, the price at the various reseller companies exceeded $1,300 on Thursday at noon.
2024-10-24 23:04:00