FIFA Fan Festival
‘Come out, Kansas City’: Cafe owner calls on KC to fill World Cup tourism gap as small businesses outside FIFA footprint struggle
Construction on Southwest Boulevard slowed traffic to nearby storefronts and restaurants for more than a year, said Cait Benedict, with many small business owners holding out hope that if they could just make it to the FIFA World Cup, they could survive.
Organics in orange: FIFA Fan Fest pushes KC Can Compost’s concept beyond theory
Joining FIFA Fan Festival as the Kansas City site’s official compost partner demonstrates that a homegrown social venture like KC Can Compost can build the infrastructure, operational capacity, and trust to support one of the world’s biggest public events, said Kristan Chamberlain.
Experimentation, live and electric: How this KC super duo spun the unexpected in FIFA Fan Fest debut
Amid Thursday’s FIFA Fan Festival opening festivities, Sin Tope’s on-stage set moved seamlessly from cumbia to hip-hop, tropical rhythms to Latin club classics — all without warning for the crowd of Team Mexico fans celebrating the day’s big win over South Africa.
Kansas City opens its favorite menus to FIFA Fan Fest
Some of Kansas City’s best-known restaurateurs have opened at the 2026 FIFA Fan Fest atop Liberty Memorial — offering teasers of local diners’ favorites and tapping into the diverse palates of visitors from across the globe.
Host cities steer into World Cup headwinds: ‘We didn’t work 10 years for this to be a flop,’ KC tourism leader says
Whether visitors come from across the country or around the globe, Kansas City is prepared to land the plane when the World Cup arrives this summer, said Kathy Nelson, acknowledging geopolitical strife and President Trump’s visa policy are making the U.S. a less attractive destination for international travelers.
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