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The sports tourism industry continues to rise to new levels with each passing year, as it has not only recovered from COVID, but surpassed the pre-COVID years in many aspects. However, the upswing in sports business being brought into destinations has not correlated directly to local CVBs and sports commissions expanding their dedicated sports staff. […]
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The United States Bowling Congress Open Championships will head to South Carolina for the first time in 2028, as Greenville and the Greenville Convention Center will host the 124th edition of the event. “We’re excited to officially announce Greenville, South Carolina, as the host of the 2028 USBC Open Championships,” USBC Executive Director Chad Murphy […]
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B.A.S.S. will return to South Carolina for its 2022 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk with Lake Hartwell hosting the spectacle for the fourth time. The event, hosted by Visit Anderson and VisitGreenvilleSC, will be staged March 4–6. Takeoffs will occur from Green Pond Landing & Event Center, while daily weigh-ins will […]
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Polk County, North Carolina, population 20,000, is not the most obvious location for an event that will attract 1,000 athletes, 1,500 horses and tens of thousands of spectators—including quite a few billionaires—from more than 70 countries. But Michael Stone, president…
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Kentucky Sports Alliance has announced it has completed a major rebrand. The consortium of 15 Kentucky tourism-based organizations has joined under one umbrella to bring sporting events to the Bluegrass State.
Jamie Corr has been named the managing director at Burson Sports, a specialist sports practice based in Lausanne, succeeding Lars Haue-Pedersen, who is stepping down after more than 20 years of leading the agency.
The Sports Facilities Companies has acquired Firland Management as part of launching a new ice division, which includes a partnership with Central Park Conservancy which assumes the management of the Harlem Meer Center in New York City.
As the @NCAA enters the final month of its deliberation on which cities will be future hosts for hundreds of events across all three divisions, destinations around the country anxiously await news of the status of their bids.
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