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ARTICLE Mar 02, 2025
Hotel Construction is Up. Sports Tourism Should Take a Bow
Hotel construction is up and sports tourism is a big reason. Interesting trends included an uptick in the construction of newer brands and extended-stay properties. But overall, what is being called a...

ARTICLE Feb 13, 2025
Women’s National Football Conference Ready to Kick Off Sixth Season
The Women’s National Football Conference, a semi-pro tackle league that began play back in 2019 with 14 regular teams and one exhibition team, will kick off its sixth season March 29 with three new te...

ARTICLE Jan 30, 2025
Indoor Simulated Golf League, Backed by Woods and McIlroy, Tees Off
Almost one million viewers tuned in to ESPN to watch the debut of TGL Golf, the new six-team indoor simulator golf league co-created by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. (TGL is short for TMRW Golf League...

ARTICLE Jan 02, 2025
Is Atlanta the New Major Sporting Events Capital of the United States?
Not too long ago, we were extolling Las Vegas as a prime host of NFL events, including this year’s Super Bowl, as well as the 2022 NFL Draft, the 2022 Pro Bowl and the significantly altered format of ...

ARTICLE Jan 02, 2025
A New Economic Driver for Some Sports Cities: Underground Railroad Tourism
We know educational and historical sites can help generate increased interest in sports tourism destinations, but newly announced funding from the National Park Service could bump that up even more. A...

ARTICLE Jan 01, 2025
Sports Destinations on the Rise
One of the hardest parts of finding new locations for events is doing the research. Instead, do your site selections from here. Sports Destination Management has compiled some of the fastest-rising ci...

ARTICLE Nov 01, 2024
Serving Up Winners
In the sports and fitness world tennis and pickleball have been growing steadily over the last few years. In terms of overall participation for 2023, the SFIA says 23.8 million Americans played tennis...

ARTICLE Oct 10, 2024
National Parks Set New Economic Impact Record in 2023
Who’s bringing in visitors by the score and economic impact to boot? Well, that would be national parks. Those parks had a record high $55.6 billion benefit to the U.S. economy and supported 415,400 j...

ARTICLE Oct 02, 2024
NCAA Announces 240-Plus Host Sites
For only the fourth time in its history, the NCAA conducted a comprehensive site selection process, putting most of its championships up for bid simultaneously. The Association chose over 240 host sit...

ARTICLE Sep 30, 2024
How to Help Those Impacted by Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, then tore across South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee, leaving a 500-mile trail of destruction and a death toll of more t...