{"id":278120,"date":"2026-06-25T18:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278120\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:42:16","slug":"nyc-hotels-see-sudden-surge-in-bookings-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278120\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC hotels see sudden surge in bookings for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ka-ching!\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is not the embarrassment many predicted it would be for New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even the city\u2019s top bean counter, Mark Levine, took to X to rain on the soccer parade<\/a> over the weekend:<\/p>\n

\"CoupleMore people are checking in to hotels now that 2026 FIFA World Cup is underway. bignai \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

\u201cHotel bookings are *lower* here than this time last year. Bookings into JFK are down from last year,\u201d he wrote. \u201cFIFA had projected 1.2M visitors to NY\/NJ. We will be lucky to hit 1\/3 of that. Huge disappointment.\u201d<\/p>\n

But a rush of last-minute bookings<\/a> drove New York hotel occupancy to over 90%, \u201cthe highest level of any host city,\u201d according to the City Reporter Thursday, citing data from commercial real estate analytics firm CoStar.<\/p>\n

Now that the Knicks\u2019 thrilling playoff run<\/a> is in the rearview mirror, the city\u2019s tourist machine is pivoting full-throttle to soccer fever.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuests booked almost a quarter of the rooms the week of the match, held Saturday, June 13,\u201d the City Reporter wrote. \u201cAverage daily room rates also jumped 38% over last year, giving credence to the statements of tourism officials that a last-minute surge could turn the event from what appeared to be an <\/a>economic bust into a boom.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the June 13 opening match between Brazil and Morocco at MetLife Stadium (officially known as the New York New Jersey Stadium), the game-date hotel occupancy rate in New York City was 88.6% with an average daily room rate of $406.01, CoStar data provided to The Post indicates. Occupancy ticked up to 90.5% and a $458.64 average daily room rate for the June 16 match in the East Rutherford, N.J., stadium between France and Senegal.<\/p>\n

The World Cup is expected to pump a staggering $45 billion<\/a> into the global gross domestic product, with the US scoring $19 billion of it, Bank of America analysts recently forecast.<\/p>\n

\"ThousandsThe World Cup is turning from an \u201ceconomic bust into a boom.\u201d Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n

The North American soccer spectacle is also set to trigger a $32 billion<\/a> US consumer spending spree, per analysts.<\/p>\n

As The Post previously reported, the World Cup\u2019s economic footprint could absolutely blow the numbers generated by Taylor Swift\u2019s record-breaking shows<\/a> right out of the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ka-ching!\u00a0 The 2026 FIFA World Cup is not the embarrassment many predicted it would be for New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11015,17314,9,56,63,65,64,29372,1491,14771,33009],"class_list":["post-278120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-fifa","tag-metlife-stadium","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-office-of-the-comptroller","tag-real-estate","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}