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Sports ETA Partners With Team Travel Source

Sports ETA has announced that Team Travel Source will sponsor the annual Sports ETA Member Awards program, which honors individuals and organizations for contributions to the industry. Categories presented at the 2023 4S Summit in El Paso, Texas, are destination branding and marketing campaign of the year and event marketing campaign of the year. Categories […]

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The TEAMS '22 Conference opening session in Oklahoma City was held in front of one of the biggest crowds in the event's history. This year's conference in The Palm Beaches, Florida, will have a record number of attendees. (Photo by Jared Wickerham)
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TEAMS ’23 Celebrates Milestone Year With Record Attendance

The TEAMS Conference & Expo, presented by SportsTravel and hosted by Discover the Palm Beaches and Palm Beach Sports Commission, will celebrate 25 years of business development, education and networking when the sports-event industry gathers for TEAMS ’23 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. TEAMS ’23 — to be held October 2–5 — will […]

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Sports Alabama President Don Dukemineer Wins Governor’s Tourism Award

Current Sports Alabama president and past chair of the Sports Events & Tourism Association Don Dukemineer was presented the Governor’s Tourism Award at the recent Alabama Governor’s Conference on Tourism. The award was presented to Dukemineer by the Alabama Tourism Department for his service and commitment to the hospitality and tourism industry, specifically his leadership […]

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Sports ETA Symposium Puts Spotlight on Kansas City

This year’s Sports Events & Tourism Association Annual Symposium brought more than 900 attendees to the Kansas City Convention Center but in many ways, it was just another eventful week in what has been a historic year for the Missouri destination. Between the hometown Chiefs winning the Super Bowl in February, a downtown parade in […]

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Sports ETA Elects New Board Members

Sports Events & Tourism Association members have elected a new slate of board members, including a secretary to the executive committee, three new destination representatives, two new rights holders and an industry partner position. The new board members will begin their positions on July 1. Matthew Libber, the executive director of the Maryland Soccer Complex, […]

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Sports ETA Releases Landmark Compensation Survey

The Sports Events & Tourism Association and SearchWide Global have released the “2023 Sports Destination Leaders Salary, Compensation and Benefits Report,” which sets a new benchmark to study compensation levels for professionals in sports-related travel. The report was led by researchers from Stoll Strategies and sponsored by the Northstar Meetings Group. The benchmark study provides […]

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Eight U.S. athletes and New York City police and firefighters carry the tattered American Flag from the World Trade Center into the stadium during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Tom Hanson)

Salt Lake Olympic Organizers Stress Intrinsic Value of Sports

For all the numbers of medals won and economic impact, the intrinsic nature of sports and what it can provide remain the strongest memories for those who helped organize the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Catherine Raney Norman, chair of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee looking to host a future […]

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Tammy Dunn, Chris O’Brien Named to Sports ETA Board of Directors

Sports ETA has named Tammy Dunn, executive director of the Snohomish County Sports Commission, and Chris O’Brien, director of sports marketing at Visit Panama City Beach in Florida, to its board of directors. Sports ETA is a non-profit trade association for the sports events and tourism industry in the United States with more than 600 […]

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