{"id":97563,"date":"2022-10-18T00:53:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/almost-3-million-tickets-have-been-sold\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T00:53:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:23:43","slug":"almost-3-million-tickets-have-been-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/almost-3-million-tickets-have-been-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 3 million tickets have been sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The three countries that have bought the most tickets of the 2.89 million that were sold are <b>Qatar, United States and Saudi Arabia<\/b>World Cup COO Colin Smith told a news conference in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>Infantino, who addressed the conference in a recorded video, said 240,000 hotel packages had been sold for the month-long tournament, the first to be held in a Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar, the smallest country to host the tournament, <b>prepares to receive some 1.2 million visitors during the World Cup<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of fans are expected to stay in neighboring countries, such as the tourist hub of the United Arab Emirates, and fly to Doha to attend matches, due to accommodation limitations in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>World Cup Organizing Committee Director General Yasir Al Jamal told the news conference that 2 million room nights have been sold and Qatar has added an additional 30,000 rooms to deal with last-minute ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p>Many hotel rooms in Doha will be occupied by the teams, their support staff and World Cup officials.<\/p>\n<p>Japan will be the first team to arrive in Qatar on November 7, Smith said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n        FB.init({\n                appId : '162165018053926',\n            cookie     : true,\n            xfbml      : true,\n            version    : 'v8.0'\n        });\n        FB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n    };\n    (function(d, s, id){\n        var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n        if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n        js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n        js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three countries that have bought the most tickets of the 2.89 million that were sold are Qatar, United States and Saudi ArabiaWorld Cup COO Colin Smith told a news conference in Doha. Infantino, who addressed the conference in a recorded video, said 240,000 hotel packages had been sold for the month-long tournament, the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":97564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22615],"tags":[10762,15505,14061,24931,11475,14848,24936,11761],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn-3.expansion.mx\/dims4\/default\/34c4be0\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3360x1764%200%20238\/resize\/1200x630!\/format\/jpg\/quality\/80\/?url=https:\/\/cdn-3.expansion.mx\/3b\/66\/e2e87ce649b4ab3ce5d49e60007b\/gettyimages-1172049905.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}