Event Apps: Enhance, Extend, Excite!
Flashlights, flight trackers, you name it, there’s an app for it. But how do you harness the power of apps for even better event management? Here are ...
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Youth Soccer Groups Adopting Headgear, But Slowly
The Women’s World Cup may be in the rear-view but the issue of head injuries remains top of mind for many soccer parents. And coaches of youth teams, ...
Technology, Social Media May Help Millennials Bridge ‘Wellness Gap’
Millennials, by their own definition, are unhealthy. This is the digital generation, raised on the Internet, smart phones and video games, and there i...
Inside Events: Major League Eating
Hot dog-eating contests. Buffalo wing-eating contests. Even traditional Purim cookie-eating contests. Whether held as standalone events or in conjunct...
Sports Travel Organizers Looking Into Opportunities for Teams, Others to Give Back to Local Communities
There’s a word for it now: voluntourism: a hybrid activity that harnesses the ability to travel with the ability to leave behind more than footprints....
US Hotel Industry Investing in Improvements to Guest Connectivity
Once upon a time, hotels attracted travelers with the promise of nice beds, fluffy robes, happening bars and restaurants and modern rooms. These days,...
Obstacle Racing: The Next Olympic Sport?
It wasn’t the fact that the first European Obstacle Racing World Championship was to be held next year in the Netherlands that made people sit up and ...
Here’s a New Trend in Travel Championships: Scrabble
Jack Durand, a 14-year-old Briton, is a world champion. He’s so dominant in his sport that at his last championship match, he won 20 of his 24 games, ...
‘Sports Just Aren’t Fun Anymore’ Leads to Drops in Youth Participation
A drop in youth sports participation -- something that is currently worrying all industry sectors -- is being blamed on sports not being fun anymore, ...
IL Budget Standoff Puts Rockford Sports Complex Development on Hold
The best-laid plans – even in sports tourism – sometimes fall short. Case in point: the City of Rockford, Illinois, and its plans for new Indoor Sport...