Economic Impact of the Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf Club

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00:03 Sports professor Rick Harl, let's go on point three.

00:08 Trillion dollar business of sports.

00:10 Your sports news minute.

00:11 Ryder Cup this morning.

00:13 The impact on Rome is astronomical.

00:16 They outbid Austria and Germany for this particular event.

00:20 And when they're talking about how to generate some dollars

00:24 for tourist time, the Vatican expecting more than 30,000

00:27 to 40,000 visitors every day, up 10% from previous times

00:34 as well.

00:35 When you think about it, it's one of those economic windfalls

00:39 that puts Rome on the golf map more than ever before.

00:43 You can tell.

00:44 Between morning and afternoon, the bottom line of all of this

00:48 is that Rome never had it as well.

00:51 Private commercial flights, big, as well as the public airport

00:54 flights as well.

00:56 And well, no matter how it turns out,

00:58 Rome is always the winner.

01:00 Sports professor Rick Harl, sports news minute.

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