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Winners of the 2014 SportsTravel Awards Announced at TEAMS ’14 in Las Vegas
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Las Vegas Selected as Host for TEAMS ’15
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Vegas, NV – November 2014 / Newsmaker Alert / SportsTravel magazine
announced the winners of the 2014 SportsTravel Awards at the TEAMS
’14 Conference & Expo in Las Vegas. TEAMS: Travel, Events And
Management in Sports, is the world’s largest gathering of event organizers
and travel planners from the sports industry.
The 2014 Boston Marathon took home the top award, Sports Event of the Year, as well as Best Professional Single-Sport Event. Other winners included the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, the 2013 Auburn vs. Alabama Football Game and the 2014 National Wheelchair Basketball National Championships. “We are pleased to recognize a number of outstanding sporting events again this year,” said Timothy Schneider, publisher of SportsTravel magazine, which organizes the annual TEAMS Conference & Expo. “Each of the winners is a prime example of achieving excellence in organization and management for both competitors and spectators.” “The readers of SportsTravel magazine are leaders in the sports-event industry and understand all that goes into executing a high-quality event,” said Schneider. “The event organizers and the destinations that have hosted them should be very proud of their achievement.” The SportsTravel Awards program bestows honors at the amateur, collegiate and professional levels in three categories each. To be eligible, events had to occur between July 1, 2013, and June 30, 2014. Criteria for nomination and voting included:
Sports Event of the YearAt the culmination of the 2014 SportsTravel Awards presentation, it was announced that the TEAMS ’15 Conference & Expo will be held in Las Vegas, November, 9–12, and hosted by the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority. The city has hosted the TEAMS Conference & Expo three times (2006, 2011, 2014). For more information and to register, please visit TEAMSconference.com or call toll-free 877-577-3700. |  The TEAMS Conference & Expo (TEAMSconference.com) is organized by Los Angeles-based Schneider Publishing (SchneiderPublishing.com), which publishes SportsTravel (SportsTravelMagazine.com), the sports world’s eventeat magazine, and Association News (AssociationNews.com), America’s most-read magazine for association executives. Schneider Publishing recently acquired the Meetings Quest (MeetingsQuest.com) series of one-day trade shows for corporate and association meeting planners. The group travel markets served by Schneider Publishing generate 106 million hotel room nights annually. | Media Contact: Timothy Schneider 310-577-3700 Schneider Publishing Company, Inc. SportsTravel, TEAMS, Association News and Meetings Quest are registered trademarks of Schneider Publishing Company, Inc. |
