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There’s a fast-growing sector in the sports events market and it isn’t youth, although it’s made up of athletes who used to fall into that category: A...
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The Enhanced Games: What’s Next After Disappointing Debut?
If you saw the sleek, over-produced presentation last year, introducing the Enhanced Games to a global audience, you would have expected world records...
Field of Dreams Emerging as Versatile Sports Tourism Destination
Remember when the Field of Dreams movie site was little more than a tourist destination in the middle of an Iowa cornfield? Nearly 40 years after the ...
Flag Football Outpaces Even Beach Volleyball in the Rush Toward Collegiate Championship Status
When NCAA announced that women’s flag football had received a formal recommendation to become a championship sport, the reaction was an open-mouthed s...
IOC Pauses Youth Olympic Games Weeks Before 2030 Host City Selection
The International Olympic Committee has paused the Youth Olympic Games, halting any further host city evaluations for 2030 and beyond. The Dakar 2026 ...
Coming Soon: SDM’s 2026 Champions of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism Awards
We already know that sports tourism is a nearly $275 billion industry. We also know that everyone reading this has helped build that number. Don’t you...
The World Cup as a Hospitality Cure-All? It’s Looking Iffier by the Day
The likelihood that the FIFA World Cup 2026 will be a cure-all for the U.S. hospitality industry, as once believed, is looking iffier by the day. From...
New NCAA Ice Hockey Throat Protection Rule Could Hit Events As Soon As Fall
The wheels of college sports rules turn slowly but they do, in fact, turn. NCAA ice hockey rules committee members representing DI and DIII men and wo...
Pickleball Venues Filling the Marketplace But is Anyone Doing Research First?
Pickleball is an absolute juggernaut in the tournament space and at the facility level but it’s creating a problem. Would-be venue owners are signing ...
Hotel Minibars Becoming Extinct on the Tournament Travel Scene
It was back in 2021 that hoteliers noted that the minibar (long a staple in hotel rooms) had declined in popularity but post-pandemic, had bounced bac...