The Paralympic series, launched following record tickets sales at the Paralympics Games last year, is expected to include a second meeting in Britain as well as events in Brazil, Germany and the Netherlands.
He was one of the top players on the UK sledge hockey team that played in Turin at the Winter Paralympics Games in 2006.
Roberts, who won three golds at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics and four at the 2004 Athens Games, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of 11 and was told swimming was the best form of physiotherapy.
The homecoming also celebrated those who supported the 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games including coaches, volunteers and torchbearers.
The 28-year-old swimmer's phenomenal Paralympics victories at the 2008 Beijing Games means his all-time haul is 11 gold medals.
"The 2012 Paralympics will live long in the memory as the Games where South Africa and the world learnt that these Games were not the fun games nor the 'shame' games, " wrote The Star.
The 29 gold medals at the London games and more than 100 medals so far at the Paralympics had raised expectations that champions such as Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah, Sarah Storey and Ellie Simmonds would be recognised.
The survey results come as Transport for London warned businesses not to overlook the Paralympics in September 2012 when making their travel plans, with the Games coinciding with the start of the school year.
Some of the decisions at the games still suggest that there are those who still see the Paralympics in the way that it was originally conceived - as moral-boosting therapy rather than real sport.
After the enormous success of the Olympics - boldly dubbed "the warm-up" by Channel 4 in its "Superhumans" ad campaign - there was a danger that the Paralympics could have been a damp squib if the media had not embraced the Games so warmly.
Although the first Paralympics were held in Rome in 1960, they were inspired by the Stoke Mandeville Games - a sports contest for British World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries that was organised by Dr Ludwig Guttmann of Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1948.
The former Paralympic medal winner said the Paralympics would "disappear off the face of the earth" if a merger with the Olympic Games took place.
Some 47% of those questioned favoured merging the Games, while 43% said the Paralympics should stay separate.
Following the success of Team GB and Paralympics GB there has been discussion about the best way to build a legacy for the Games.
Xavier Gonzalez, chief executive of the International Paralympics Committee, visited London for talks on Monday, exactly seven years before the start of the Games for disabled athletes.
London 2012 chairman Lord Sebastian Coe said that after Sunday's glitzy Olympic closing ceremony, Games venues were already being reconfigured for the Paralympics, adding that people would be amazed by the sports on offer.
Polls conducted during the Games showing that eight out of 10 British adults thought the 2012 Paralympics had had a positive impact on the way disabled people are viewed by the public.
All tickets for the Olympics and Paralympics were considered in the official statistics to have been bought in the third quarter of 2012, when the games took place.
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