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From May through August 2020, more than a third of all group bookings at IHG Hotels and Resorts were from sports-related travel, the company has reported. The company, whose properties include Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and Crowne Plaza, said the amateur sports market—led by baseball, softball and hockey—accounted for one of its strongest group […]
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The NCAA Women’s Beach Volleyball Championships will head west for the first time in 2025 and 2026 as the Orange County Sports Commission was awarded the rights to host the events in Huntington Beach, California. From its inception in 2016, the event has been staged in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The California city received the event as […]
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Sports venues need to keep working on efficient ways to have spectators — at whatever quantity allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic — enter, walk around and exit in an efficient and most importantly a healthy fashion, a panel at the Association of Luxury Suite Directors virtual conference agreed. Venues will also have to adapt for […]
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USA Basketball has invited 30 of the top gamers in NBA 2K to the first trials for an USA Basketball E-National Team. The trials will be held virtually November 7–8 and will be used to select a national team that will represent the United States at the FIBA Esports Open II in the North and […]
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USA Triathlon has announced a partnership with Elk Grove Village in Illinois to serve as the national governing body’s exclusive entrepreneur community and exclusive “Making Dreams Come True” partner through September 2021. The sponsorship program, one of the few between a municipality and an NGB, is the product of a recent and innovative RFP process […]
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Several sports-related investments in state of Maine will result in new and improved sports venues, including the recent opening of a $200 million athletics and recreation center at Colby College in the city of Waterville. The Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center is a 350,000-square-foot building that will become one of the most advanced Division […]
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The World’s Strongest Man competition will be held November 11–15 in Bradenton, Florida, without spectators. But fans of the sports will have daily live access on Facebook, beginning November 10 with “World’s Strongest Man: Live from Bradenton,” which will feature exclusive up-close looks at the making of the event. The social media coverage is aimed […]
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Formula E has become a minority shareholder in Extreme E, a new off-road motorsport series that will see electric SUVs competing in remote ecosystems around the world. The two racing series are united in a goal to counteract climate change by accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles. The natural alliance has now been formalized by […]
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Claude Molinari, the general manager of Detroit’s TCF Center, has been named president and CEO of the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau. The position will take effect January 1, 2021. Molinari will succeed longtime President and CEO Larry Alexander, who will retire at year’s end after 22 years leading the bureau. In his new […]
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Sports tournament management company EventConnect has appointed John D’Orsay as chief executive officer, succeeding founder Jason Parker, who has left the company. D’Orsay joined EventConnect in 2016 as the company’s chief technology officer and was promoted in 2018 to the role of chief revenue officer. As chief technology officer, D’Orsay played a pivotal role in […]
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