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How to Succeed in eSports? Follow the Pro Model

How to Succeed in eSports? Follow the Pro Model

If you want to succeed in eSports, how do you go about proving it’s a real sport? Easy: you act like a real sport. Overwatch, the popular team-based s...

Looking to Understand the Arc of Women's Sports? Here's a Primer

Looking to Understand the Arc of Women's Sports? Here's a Primer

Those who know sports tourism know that each year, women play an ever-increasing role in not just the sports themselves, but in the business end of th...

World Series Loss Still Financial Windfall for Cleveland

World Series Loss Still Financial Windfall for Cleveland

You can lose and still win. Just ask Cleveland, whose loss in Game Seven of the great Cubs/Indians World Series still managed to make an economic impa...

Champions

2016 Awards Feature: Economic Impact of Sports Tourism

In presenting our annual awards, Champions of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism, we reflect on our approaches to economic impact. To help understand a...

Champions

2016 Champions of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism

In each issue of SDM, we examine the unique relationship between event organizer and host city. In this issue, we celebrate it. Our Champions of Econo...

Apps

Mobile Apps in Sports Event Planning

It seems like every pro team and huge sports event has its own mobile app these days. The question becomes whether you should offer one as well. An ap...

HowdyHalf

Event Merchandising: Trends, Innovations and Predictions

Everyone wants to have a great souvenir for their sports event. After all, something the participant continues to wear, like a T-shirt, means advertis...

runningshoes

Best Practices for Recurring Events

In hosting events that return to a destination year after year, it’s tempting to rely on the practices that previously brought success. But how do you...

Rodeo

Saddle Up

The summer Games in Rio showcased equestrian sports, with the FEI’s “two hearts” social media campaign celebrating the relationship between horse and ...

CrossFit

Fitness Competitions: How the CrossFit Games Come Together

The annual CrossFit Games, the competition to find “the world’s fittest,” has experienced year-over-year growth, and now has television coverage. It’s...