July/August 2025

Golden midsummer has arrived and SDM’s awards program, Champions of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism, is in full swing. Here’s why you should enter:

• It’s a great chance to recognize economic impact.
• It showcases destinations at their finest.
• We learn about how others have faced unique challenges and adapted their events.
• We learn what we are capable of.
• Our industry is blessed with so many tools; it is powerful, creative, flexible and imaginative. It cares. When we put these tools to work, we create excellence.

Let’s showcase it all, starting now.