2014 Tour de France will start in Yorkshire and come to Sheffield

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Actually there was no speculation at all, although there was in the post I responded too. It seems rather than the £7.1 million that the tour cost to bring here, the actual cost was £30 million. The budget of £27 million was actually overspent by around £ 3 million.

 

So the cost of bringing £102 million of business to Yorkshire was £30 million. The £102 million was not profit. It was revenue. A hotel selling a meal to a family for £50 REVENUE has to buy the ingredients, provide staff to cook it, serve it, wash up afterwards and pay VAT. A revenue of £102 million is likely to have brought around £10 million in taxable profits on a good day for which we spent £30 million in organisation and policing.

 

Not disputing the costs figures.

 

But the speculation around visitor numbers. Visitor numbers will more than likely be boosted by Yorkshire being front and centre in the world of sport for 2 days, I'm not sure how you can dispute that without hard figures to back you up.