Stockholm mayor jumps at Eurovision chance
Published: 28 May 12 10:33 CET | Print version
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The mayor of Stockholm has jumped at the possibility of hosting next year’s Eurovision in Stockholm, claiming that the financial benefits are obvious for the entire local tourism industry.
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After Loreen’s victory on Sunday night, Stockholm’s mayor Sten Nordin made an effort to ensure the capital city would host the event in 2013.
“Welcome to Stockholm 2013,” he wrote in a press release, also noting that the city had reserved 3,000 hotel rooms “according to EBU’s prerequisites”, wrote the TT news agency.
“Our experience is that these types of events are profitable for the city’s tourism industry, especially in the long run. We’ve seen this with the Crown Princess’s wedding. People became curious about Stockholm after seeing pictures of the wedding and we’re still seeing the effects of it now,” said Nordin to TT.
While it’s difficult to say how much the event would earn for the city, research indicates that Stockholm pulled in 77 million kronor ($10.8 million) when the Globe theatre hosted Eurovision in 2000.
Comparatively, the tourist economic turnover after the royal wedding made some 713 million kronor for Stockholm.
While business professor Tommy D Andersson points to Norway’s winter Olympics in 1994 as an example of a financial disaster for the event organizers, he explained that sometimes the public can react positively nonetheless, which can make the event worthwhile.
“A politician's job is also about enhancing the population's quality of life and make sure people think that life’s fun in general,” he told TT.
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Playing the race card means bringing up racism or racists when the argument was not about race in the first place. In this case, Jes (who is probably a racist him/herself) is playing the race card.
The winner was born in Stockholm - so Stockholm it is then. Why should the country where the parents of the winner comes from host it?
As you may notice , less intelligent @towns does not get it . He , probably has not heard that some "party" had argued-( call it playing the race card ) -that Sweden could never win if the singer is an African immigrant and her dancer is a black guy . The " party" suggested that Loreen needed a white blond dancer to trap votes from some quaters . Loreen and a lot of non-racists refused .
Now we know she was right , don´t we ?
You can make disparaging remarks all you want but I was not incorrect in my original assertion!
If a dog is born in a stable it doesn't make it a horse
Wait a minute. So, what you're saying is that 99% of the US population are not Americans then?? Recall that Native Indians were the original settlers in America.
http://www.yumimodal.com/alien-statues.htm
No, a Swedish town doesn't have a "borgmästare" (mayor) but a "kommunalråd" which there doesn't seem to be any English word for.
I thought Loreen was born in Västerås, not Stockholm, oh well...