After using huge funds to build gigantic stadia across the Asian country for the global football festival, 2022 FIFA World Cup hosts, Qatar is looking at camping supporters in the Arabian deserts in traditional Bedouin tents.
Bedouin tents like this will replace hotels at Qatar 2022.
Reports in The Sun UK on Tuesday say that the Qatari, in the bid to save funds that would be wasted on putting up hotels and lodges, is concluding plans to camp millions on football fans that visit the small peninsula of about 2.4million people in Bedouin tents in the desert.
The tabloid reports that desert camps styled in the local Bedouin fashion have been suggested as a relatively low-cost alternative to hotels, and would likely require less planning to build. The camps are likely to be modelled on traditional tribe-dwellings in Syria and Arabia.
On its part, international cable television, Al Jazeera reports that the organisers are holding up the tent idea as a creative and culturally authentic way for Qatar to meet FIFA requirements.
“At the heart of this World Cup is a commitment to showcase the hospitality and friendship of the Middle East.
“As a result, we are actively researching the concept of supporters sleeping under the stars to ensure a truly unique World Cup experience in 2022. We are working with all stakeholders to offer diverse accommodation and entertainment solutions for the duration of the tournament,” Al Jazeera quoted a Qatar World Cup Supreme Committee (SC) statement sent to it as saying.
Qatar 2020 was already steeped in controversy after FIFA bosses failed to realise that Summer in Qatar would be prohibitively hot — meaning the competition had to be moved to Chrismas for the first time in World Cup history.
The oil-rich country has been known to use workers working in unsafe conditions and for poor pay to build their glitzy World Cup infrastructure.
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