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Sports ETA has formed a partnership with 4FRONT, a sponsorship and consultancy firm, to guide the association on new innovative education and marketing programs for Sports ETA members. “4FRONT has been a long-time partner of Sports ETA offering cutting-edge programming for our members, which have all earned rave reviews,” said Al Kidd, president and CEO […]
Continue ReadingThe Sports Events & Tourism Association has announced new October dates for its Annual Symposium and two other events, rescheduling from April dates in Birmingham, Alabama. The 2021 Sports ETA symposium will still be held in Birmingham, shifting to October 25–29. In conjunction with that event, the trade association for the sports events and tourism […]
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Russ Yurk, a sports industry professional with nearly three decades of experience with the NCAA and a wide range of sports events, has been named special projects coordinator for Sports ETA to oversee events rights holder relationships on behalf of the organization in an effort to increase those relationships with the Sports ETA membership. Yurk […]
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When Jennifer Stoll was forming a new sports commission in Grand Junction, Colorado, she wasn’t sure where to begin. “I didn’t know anything,” she recalled of the organization’s early days. “I was searching out education and there wasn’t enough. It had been on my mind for a while.” Now working as a consultant with the […]
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The year 2020 will go down as a moment where the sports-event industry was forced to pivot. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt by all stakeholders, whether they are destinations, event organizers, hotels or any number of suppliers. While there has been evidence that the industry has begun its recovery, there are still […]
Continue ReadingThe Sports Events & Tourism Association has announced the winners of its annual awards, given in categories that include organizations of the year, marketing campaigns and locally created events. The awards are typically announced at the organization’s annual symposium, but were revealed after Sports ETA was forced to cancel this year’s event because of the […]
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For more coverage of the State of the Industry report, click here. For years, the Sports Events and Tourism Association (formerly the National Association of Sports Commissions) produced an annual state of the industry report in an effort to gauge the economic impact of the sports tourism industry. But association leaders were quick to […]
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A landmark new study conducted by the Sports Events and Tourism Association shows that travel to amateur and collegiate sports events in 2019 accounted for $45.1 billion in spending in the United States, an increase of over 5 percent from the previous year. In addition, that spending generated $103.3 billion in direct, indirect and induced […]
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The coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on sports events at all levels. For sports commissions that organize their own events and rely on revenue from those events, the pandemic has been especially hard. That loss of events and revenue has raised a number of questions. When a sports commission exists to create events that […]
Continue ReadingSports ETA will cancel its annual in-person symposium that had been planned for Kansas City in August 2020 and launch a virtual month-long series of programming instead. The next in-person symposium will take place April 26–29, 2021, in Birmingham, Alabama. The Kansas City event had initially been planned for April 2020 and was later rescheduled […]
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