Fans heading to the World Cup in the U.S. are facing a new source of sticker shock: mass transit. In New Jersey and Massachusetts, some train fares tied to matches will cost fans far more than normal NFL gameday trips.
It’s a lack of joined up thinking is what it is. Surely the US want as many people as possible at the tournaments (or at least city officials do, it’s anyone’s guess what the admin think is going on), the amount of money tourists pay to stay in a hotel will far exceed the amount of money they pay on these over inflated public transit tickets. So make public transit affordable, so they actually come to the event, stay in the hotel, and spend money in the local economy.
Or you can try and price gouge them on a bus ticket and they won’t come. Now you’ve made no money at all, well done.
The US’s problem isn’t that it’s a hyper capitalist country, it’s a hyper capitalist country run by MBA business study incompetents who only care about chasing short term profits at the expense of long-term profits.
It’s a lack of joined up thinking is what it is. Surely the US want as many people as possible at the tournaments (or at least city officials do, it’s anyone’s guess what the admin think is going on), the amount of money tourists pay to stay in a hotel will far exceed the amount of money they pay on these over inflated public transit tickets. So make public transit affordable, so they actually come to the event, stay in the hotel, and spend money in the local economy.
Or you can try and price gouge them on a bus ticket and they won’t come. Now you’ve made no money at all, well done.
The US’s problem isn’t that it’s a hyper capitalist country, it’s a hyper capitalist country run by MBA business study incompetents who only care about chasing short term profits at the expense of long-term profits.