July/August 2025

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Sports Destination Management Magazine

July/Aug 2025 Issue Cover

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.

In this issue

Sports Landscapes Designed by Mother Nature

BY: Mary Helen Sprecher

In the arms race for the best sports venues, it’s easy to forget one of the most skilled designers: Mother Nature. Nationwide, mountains host electrifying downhill winter sports, lakes have populations of fish for anglers and there are oceans whose sandy beaches host volleyball and whose waves propel surfers and spectators into an adrenaline rush. more....