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If you don’t follow surfing terribly closely, you may not know that Coco Ho comes from a legendary surfing family that is considered Hawaiian surfing royalty. Her father is pro surfing pioneer Michael Ho, considered the godfather of the North Shore surf scene on Oahu. Michael had a 25-year career that included two Triple Crows […]
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Sports play a vital economic role for destinations looking to attracting visitors. They also, in their finest moments, provide inspiring examples of humanity at its best. Over the weekend of July 29–30 in Ames and Des Moines, Iowa, two events — one amateur, one professional — spoke to each of those aspects. They also served […]
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The Dayton Convention Center in Ohio has named Christina Combs as its senior sales manager, responsible for convention center sales for the sports, gaming, national and state association business market segments, as well as oversight of marketing efforts across all channels. Combs previously was with the Dayton Convention & Visitors Bureau, where she was a […]
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Sodexo Live! has announced a new agreement with the French Tennis Federation to serve as the exclusive marketing partner for Roland Garros and the Rolex Paris Masters hospitality programs. Factory Sport & Entertainment (whose CEO is tennis star Jo-Wilfried Tsonga), and Quarterback Group, will align with Sodexo Live! on the program’s execution. The multiyear agreement […]
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The Louisville Sports Commission has hired Nick Kopka and MiKayla Morton to join the staff, and promoted longtime Vice President Julie Howell to chief revenue officer. Kopka will take over as director of event operations and Morton will serve as manager of events and programs. “The skill sets and experience that Nick Kopka and Mikayla […]
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Visit Sarasota County in Florida has named Pete Harvey as its director of sports and transitioned Nate Sweetman to the sports department to work under him as the bureau’s new sports marketing coordinator. Harvey is originally from New York but spent almost 20 years in Florida in the sports and resort arenas before living in […]
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Peter Burwash, a tennis industry pioneer and longtime columnist for SportsTravel magazine, passed away July 7, in his hometown of Carmel, California. After retiring from professional tennis in 1975, Burwash founded Peter Burwash International, an international tennis management company. PBI was a pioneer in the racquet sports industry, and for decades remained the largest tennis […]
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TEAMS Europe, the first international event produced by the TEAMS (Travel, Events and Management in Sports) Conference & Expo—the world’s leading conference and expo for the sports-event industry—has announced Sebastian Coe, double Olympic gold medalist and president of World Athletics, as its keynote speaker. Formerly a member of the UK Parliament, Lord Coe has […]
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Lasso Safe has announced the formation of the Competition Development Council, a new web app for accrediting, advancing and promoting safe communities in sports and esports. The Competition Development Council is designed to unite the voices in sport and empower members, including state/regional tourism leaders, sports industry principals, athletes and participants to use their strength […]
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This is the second time we’ve had Al Kidd and Jennifer Stoll on the SportsTravel Podcast. The last time was in early 2020 when the pandemic was just becoming evident and an incredible amount of unknown lied ahead. The Sports Events & Tourism Assocaition had just released data from its first comprehensive State of the Industry […]
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