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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Asia Pacific World World Cup a showcase for sunny George AFP - Monday, June 21 Send IM Story Print World Cup a showcase for sunny George GEORGE, South Africa (AFP) - – Japan's decision to site their World Cup base camp in this scenic "Garden Route" coastal town has failed to lure many Japanese tourists to follow their team and visit the region. But George mayor Mercia Draghoender believes that the city's investment in hosting a national football team for the first time will pay off in the long run. "We won't make a lot of money because the fans do not come," the mayor told AFP. "We've made the investment because it is not only about the World Cup but also about the legacy which the World Cup leaves behind." Most Japanese supporters have come in group tours and settled closer to the venues of the Blue Samurai's matches against Cameroon, the Netherlands and Denmark. Some have even taken a four-day "Bullet Tour" priced at nearly 400,000 yen (4,400 dollars) per person. At the 2006 World Cup in the much smaller country of Germany, hundreds of Japanese followed the squad to their training base of Bonn, cheering and jeering over every shot and mistake they made in practice. Amid concerns about the country's high crime rate and its long distance from home, the Japanese embassy in Pretoria has conservatively estimated the number of Japanese visitors to the World Cup at between 5,000 and 6,000. Japan midfielder Kengo Nakamura said he had heard that "World Cup fever" had caught on at home after the 1-0 win over Cameroon in their opening game. "But it hasn't reached us at all and it is great that we can play with a calm mindset." The city and the Japan Football Association have split the cost of building and operating a media centre next to Japan's training ground, Outeniqua Stadium, a fixture on the rugby sevens World Series since 2002. The mayor said her adminstration spent more than two million rand (266,000 dollars) to upgrade the stadium's field for football use. "We want to show the world what we can do," Draghoender said. "George is ready for each and every sport that comes." With seven 18-hole golf courses, some of them designed by the legendary Gary Player, George hosted the Presidents Cup in 2003 and the inaugural 2005 women's golf World Cup won by the Japanese duo of Ai Miyazato and Rui Kitada. The events were staged at the five-star Fancourt hotel and golf estate, now home to the 35-strong Japanese football team. Fancourt chief executive officer Kerrin Titmas said the Japanese presence would provide "wonderful international exposure for the city of George, and the Garden Route as a whole." The French and Danish teams are based in the nearby resort of Knysna. George, which calls itself the "city for all reasons" with sporting and convention facilites as well as a population of 200,000, has been friendly to Japanese visitors which included some 150 media people covering the Blue Samurai. Citizens greet them with such Japanese words as "kon-nichiwa (hello)" while red-sun Japanese flags flutter in the streets. The local weekly George Herald has featured Japanese-language lessons, introducing such other words as "nomimono (beverage)" and "kuro (black)". George Tourism Bureau official Graham De Swart said the number of Japanese visitors, currently some 48,000 a year, was expected to rise after the World Cup. "Media guys will go back and say, 'This is what George got to offer. You should go there.'" 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