Qatar wants to organize the 2036 Olympic Games

The secretary general of the Supreme Committee for the Delivery and Legacy of Qatar, Hasan Abdullah al Thawadi, assured this Wednesday that his country has “the capacity to organize the Olympic Games in the best way”.

“Qatar can organize the Olympic Games in the best way and we have already announced our desire to host the event in 2036.”he said during his participation in the Doha Economic Forum, although he assured that the decision falls on “the experts.”

Taste seeks to follow in the footsteps of Paris, which hosts the competition in 2024, Los Angeles (2028) and Brisbane (2032).

According to Al Thawadi, the Persian Gulf country “is still reaping the benefits of organizing the world Cup” of football in 2022 and its infrastructure makes it “prepared to host more events in all fields, not only in the world of sport”

Therefore, he demanded that the country must “create more events that attract more tourists from outside Qatar.”

The Qatari official highlighted that his country seeks to benefit from the projection associated with the organization of the competition with more international representation, and gave as an example the city of Barcelona, ​​which hosted the 1992 Olympic Games.

“When Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympic Games, it was successful, of course, in organizing sports, but it also benefited on a tourism level, becoming a year-round destination for many today,” Al Thawadi acknowledged.

The impact of the soccer World Cup Taste It has especially affected the tourism aspect, which flourished enormously over the past year and reached its peak during this year’s Asian Cup.

The World Cup hosted just over 1.8 million fans at the “FIFA Fan Festival”, the venue, measuring 145,000 square meters and with a capacity of 40,000 people, which received an average of 70,000 visitors a day to watch the matches and performances in live from different artists on the international scene.