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FIFA reportedly canceled 2,000 of their 10,000 hotel room reservations, citing a “standard contractual provision” that is consistent with large-scale global events.” FIFA via Getty Images <\/p>\nFIFA reportedly canceled 2,000 of their 10,000 hotel room reservations, citing a “standard contractual provision” that is consistent with large-scale global events.” FIFA via Getty Images <\/p>\n
FIFA \u201ccanceled 2,000 of their 10,000 hotel room reservations\u201d in Philadelphia last week. It also reportedly canceled 40% of its hotel bookings in Mexico City earlier this month. Sources cited by the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER said that FIFA exercised a \u201cstandard contractual provision\u201d that is \u201cconsistent with large-scale global events, and confirmed the hotel room rollback was happening in other cities.\u201d A FIFA spokesperson \u201cconfirmed this was the case\u201d and noted that the soccer governing body had exercised \u201csimilar opt-out clauses at previous World Cups.\u201d These rooms are \u201cset aside for FIFA staff, media organizations, and attendees.\u201d The spokesperson said that as attendance numbers become \u201cmore concrete\u201d closer to the start of matches, FIFA \u201cadjusts hotel room bookings accordingly\u201d (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 3\/20<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA reportedly canceled 2,000 of their 10,000 hotel room reservations, citing a “standard contractual provision” that is consistent…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,42903,2034,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,21490],"class_list":["post-674130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-fan-experience","tag-fifa","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}