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ARTICLE May 09, 2024
Get Your BID On: World Triathlon Events
World Triathlon is welcoming bids for a variety of events to be held in 2025. Here’s some incentive: The organization’s top-tier events are broadcast in 22 countries (or larger regions) including the ...
ARTICLE May 01, 2024
College Towns + Sports Events = Class Acts
With their youthful vibes and deep-rooted traditions, college towns are unique destinations. They also offer (to nobody’s great surprise) excellent sports venues. Whether those are football fields, te...
ARTICLE Apr 11, 2024
Get your BID On: WBSC's International Baseball and Softball Events
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has unveiled a new events bidding calendar, outlining the top WBSC tournaments, providing opportunities for cities and organizers around the world to w...
ARTICLE Mar 27, 2024
Wanted Dead or Alive (But Mostly Dead): Invasive Fish Species
Officials in Maryland, Arkansas, Washington and other states have placed bounties on invasive fish species. Of course, fighting the likes of carp, catfish and other fish that crowd out local species i...
ARTICLE Mar 14, 2024
With $1 Billion in Economic Impact on the Line, Cities Welcome ‘Ring of Fire’
If the emails aren’t hitting your inbox like asteroids, you need to check your Internet connection. The big celestial event, the total solar eclipse, is finally here and destinations have come up with...
ARTICLE Feb 29, 2024
Sports Tourism, Bigfoot and the Rise of Cryptid Travel
For those in the right areas, it’s a big hairy deal. Nationwide, cryptid tourism (defined as the pursuit of something not yet proven to exist, like Bigfoot, Mothman, the Skunk Ape or the Boggy Creek S...
ARTICLE Jan 08, 2024
Get Your BID On: Move United Seeks Host City for 2025 Education Conference
Move United, the national leader in community-based sports and recreation for individuals with disabilities, seeks a strong host city for its spring 2025 conference for 350+ sports professionals and p...
ARTICLE Jan 06, 2024
Destinations Ready to Promote the Daylights Out of April’s Solar Eclipse
Setting aside events like the Super Bowl and even the Copa America, what is one of the biggest USA-based tourism events? It’s the 2024 total solar eclipse, which will happen in April. And right now, m...
ARTICLE Nov 26, 2023
Positive Holiday Forecast Putting a Jingle in Sports Organizers’ Pockets
Recession, shmession. The holiday spending forecast is strong, and that means lots of participation in themed tournaments. From 5Ks (Egg Nog Jog, anyone?) to soccer and futsal tournaments, to lacrosse...
ARTICLE Oct 30, 2023
Easy Winners on Court
With tennis and pickleball, the gains that started in 2020 have just kept going, with both sports popular at all levels and all ages (even pickleball, in which the estimated player age keeps trending ...