Thomas-Henry questions separating World Cup impact from 250th and Knicks events

Second question, the World Cup and the 250th celebration overlapped.

Have you assessed how much of that economic impact can be attributed directly to the World Cup versus what can be attributed to the visitors we got for the 250th anniversary?

Yeah, so the way that tourism economics went about trying to disaggregate that information as best as possible was, again, using as the baseline of the analysis of that

number of people who attended a World Cup game from out of the market and those who attended a World Cup affiliated event from outside the market.

And so that's the base that was used.

If you were here for the Knicks parade specifically or anything else, that would not have been counted if you didn't go to the game or you didn't go to an official fan fest.

Good point.

I forgot about the Nixon five.

So I'm just curious, like, how do you separate that?

The way it's separated is identifying who specifically went to, like who came to New York City with the intent of watching a World Cup match.

Right, who bought a ticket from out of the market.

And so that is one portion of the equation.

And then the other portion of the equation is who showed up to a,

a authorizer, an official World Cup fan zone event.

And based off that information is how we get to determine that that person came to New York City for the World Cup specifically.

Okay, so what if I wanted to come and I celebrated the Knicks in five, came to the parade and said, oh, man, there's a fan fest in my neighborhood.

I want to go and check that out.

I wasn't coming for the World Cup, but I came to celebrate the Knicks.

So are we counting what could have otherwise brought someone to the city as World Cup if they just happened to stumble upon World Cup activities?

I'd have to go look at the calendar, but from what I recall, the parade was kind of at the beginning of the World Cup and a war that overlapped with the fan zone events.

Or just in general.

I come to New York.

I want to come see a play.

But I'm like, oh, my gosh, the World Cup.

And I may want to check something out.

So currently, right now, there's no way of us saying someone came specifically for World Cup.

And this is what you.

generated versus someone came just because this is New York City and then decided to partake in any World Cup activities.

So a lion's share of the analysis is based on people who came to New York City who purchased a ticket and bought a ticket to go and watch a match from outside of the region.