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The 32nd America’s Cup match has ended in a most spectacular victory for Swiss Team Alinghi. This means that the 33rd America’s Cup Match will be held in a European city somewhere in 2009, 2010 or 2011. Valencia is a likely city of venue again, as it has been a 100% success for both parties.
Here I have some facts for you from the official America’s Cup site:
The 32nd America’s Cup in concept and figures:
Spectator attendance
- Total visitors (including Marseille, Malmoe, Trapani and Valencia): 6.4 million
- Port America’s Cup: 5.7 million
- Season 2007 (Louis Vuitton Act 13, Louis Vuitton Cup and America’s Cup Match): 2.8 million
- One-day record of visitors to Port America’s Cup: 87.547 (Sunday 1 July 2007)
Internet www.americascup.com
- Visits: 22 million (total since September 2004)
2007 season: 16.6 million (since April 1st)
America’s Cup Match: 3.4 million- Page views: 105 million (total since September 2004)
2007 season: 70 million
AC Match: 13.4 million- One-day records:
Page views: 2 156 222 (26 June)
Visits: 518 612 (3 July)
Unique visitors: 337 894 (3 July)- Newsletter Subscribers: 40 000
TV (provisional data)
- Viewers: over 4 000 million (total since 2004)
2007 season: over 2 700 million
Broadcast hours: over 4 500 hours (total since 2004)
2007 season: over 2 500 hours- Networks: over 100
Rights Holders: 36- Countries reached: over 150
- Production: 400 hours and over 33 cameras
Media
- Press articles: over 100 000
- Accreditations: over 6 700 (total since 2004)
2007 season: 3 200
America’s Cup Match: 1 460- Written press: 371
- Photographers: 183
- Radio: 49
- Internet: 30
- Television: 227 journalists and producers + 600 technical personnel
- Countries represented: 40
- Publications: over 600
- Press releases issued: 1 040 (in four languages)
- Press conferences organised: 75
Port America’s Cup
- 1 million square meter development including the Marinas with nearly 650 berths and 12 team bases
- Spectator boat service: up to 12 boats every racing day with around 1 300 spectators on board
- Spectator boats: 2 000 boats on the race course (final weekend 30 June-1 July 2007)
- Marinas occupation: over 1 000 boats (2007 season)
- One-day record: 450 boats
- Total number of nights sold: 25.000
If you are not bidding already to become the city of venue, please prepare a bid to be one of the cities on the way to the match itself.
- Amsterdam has a marina in IJmuiden with enough space in place.
- The Hague is contemplating what to do with its abandoned harbor front. This could be an excellent boost for the area.
- Rotterdam has a proven track record with the 2006 Rotterdam Stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race with an in shore race in the historically important waters of the Battle of Ter Heide.
So, please mr. Dutch Prime Minister and Mayors of Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam: I know none of you have much with sailing, let it be sailing races, but please let the world see the Dutch can rule the waves again! Please take this excellent opportunity to promote one of more of these cities (preferably The Hague of course!). But also please act together and not against each other as you did with the plans for the new Dutch National Historic Museum!
And of course I personally would love to have such a venue in my backyard in The Hague:-)
Added July 20, 2007:
I saw in an article in a local paper that at least one political party in the Board of the The Hague City Counsel has the same idea.
Last edited by Happy Hotelier on February 8, 2010 at 10:58 am [wile waiting for AC33 to start]