The 2022 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) generated a huge economic impact for Guyana as the country hosted the finals for the very first time as part of the newly created Cricket Carnival.

The total economic impact for Guyana in 2022 was US$84,425,587, a 186% increase on the figure from the last time the country hosted Hero CPL matches in 2019. 

The vision of His Excellency Irfaan Ali in showcasing the country’s many creative and social attributes whilst making the country the entertainment capital of the region for two weeks in September, led to the most successful hosting of any CPL finals.  Businesses across the country benefited from the significant uplift of in-bound tourism during September last year, as people travelled to be part of the Biggest Party in Sport. The fans certainly didn’t disappoint with almost 50,000 attending the playoff games alone.

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Say what you like about the CPL, its stakeholders have solid reasons for continued interest and input.

It would be instructive if CWI did a similar public report on the economic impact of the cricket it administrates for say the last 3 years.

In reply to cumberland

now there is a lots pressure, how do you top that, but I am so happy to hear it was a success, was worried might have been in vain

In reply to bird
I suspect anything that draws a crowd cannot be in vain.

Even de Oil dat Guyana found don't have that total economic impact!

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

The annual CPL advertisement to seduce regional governments to spend money for their benefit.

In reply to Larr Pullo

In reply to camos

This is such a bullshit study on so many levels. But the sad fact is that there are politicians in the region who buy this nonsense…and it is usually against the better advice of their own policy analysts.

Ah well! the ICC T20 WC is coming to the WI in 2024. Let's see CWI upstage CPL and show them a thing or two! Let us see some real "impact".

yea Exxon move aside

In reply to JOJO
why is a BS study?
50K people spending an average $1500.00 each will get you to 75 mil...
I sure they spend more than that

In reply to ray

is that 1500 USD?

Maybe 2019 was really bad ...

In reply to Kay

oil money nah bin a flow yet

Are they taking credit for all the hotel rooms used in GT during the period, or the above number was just a fraction of rooms occupied during that time? Hotel dollars are elusive, most do not come in the country!

In reply to camos

they need to show the methodology...

In reply to cumberland

Do you have any idea how those economic impact number are cooked?

In reply to doosra

yeah bai...US money
Ah sure all these big stagers drop some big bucks during that time

Spending $1500 US while on vacation is very easy

In reply to ray
the hotel room stat tells they were less than 3500 visitors for the two weeks.

In reply to ray

1500 is 300k gt dallas so not a lot actually...sure bigstagers burned a lot more

In reply to camos

Most Guyanese visiting usually stay with relatives or very close friends and it is not about saving hotel money.