Yet most impressive are the more modest homegrown ventures: new boutique hotels, restaurants, small IT shops, printers, event planning, andtourism offerings. (In 2010 alone, 18, 447 new businesses were registered in Rwanda.) A young woman dressed in smart attire urged two visitors to come to her new shop, which sells upscale fabrics and offers custom tailoring.
This figure includes everything from spectators spending money on accommodation and food and drink, to the funds invested in infrastructure improvement projects, Welsh firms supplying goods and services for the event, and the wider boost it will give to the Welsh tourism sector.