Last week, the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan municipality (Port Elizabeth) unveiled its 2010 FIFA World Cup host city Web site.
This comes after FIFA and the Local Organising Committee announced the municipality, along with Tshwane, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and Rustenburg, as host cities for the Confederations Cup taking place in June 2009.
The Confederations Cup is the precursor to the FIFA World Cup Soccer game and is usually used as a way to determine a country and city's readiness to host the World Cup.
"As stipulated in the host city agreement that the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality signed with FIFA, the municipality has to provide and maintain a Web site to inform the public of the activities of the municipality regarding the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Confederate Cup 2009," the municipality says in a media statement.
Nelson Mandela Bay also has to display the city as favourable tourist destination for the future, it says. All nine host cities are required to do the same.
The municipality says it will provide information about the location of tourist facilities and services offered in the area using geographic information systems.
It is expected that tourist facilities will include the type of accommodation available, restaurants, car rental companies, places of interest, and sports and recreational facilities, it says.
Services available on the Web site include healthcare facilities, community halls and education facilities, it says.
As the Web site grows and evolves, information will also include route data that enables a visitor to the municipality to determine the shortest route between two places.
The municipality says it expects the Web site to receive over 50 million visitors in the run-up to the World Cup, in line with statistics during the 2006 World Cup, in Germany.
The Web site was developed with a content management system that was implemented by Business Connexion, allowing the Web master to update the information from any Internet connection wherever they may be located.
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