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TEAMS
’17 Conference & Expo Showcases Orlando
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A thrilling
opening celebration, the hottest topics in sports, exclusive
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venue tours
and off-site sessions enthralled attendees at the
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world’s largest
gathering of sports-event organizers.
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Los
Angeles, CA – November 2017 / Newsmaker Alert / The
TEAMS
’17 Conference & Expo—the world’s leading conference and expo for
the sports-event industry—kept attendees on the cutting edge of industry
trends. Presented by Northstar Travel Group and hosted by Visit
Orlando, TEAMS ’17 was held in Orlando October 30–November 2.
“We
offered a variety of unique programming on the agenda—including the addition
of the eSportsTravel Summit—this year at TEAMS ’17,” said Timothy Schneider,
founder and chairman of the Sports Division of Northstar
Travel Group. “We enjoyed welcoming TEAMS attendees to Orlando and
providing them the latest in sports-specific content as well as access
to industry experts.”
New
at TEAMS ’17 was the eSportsTravel Summit, a series of educational sessions
that examined the growing impact of e-sports on destinations and venues.
Topics included the similarities and differences of organizing and hosting
e-sports competitions; insights into how artificial intelligence, augmented
reality, virtual reality, facial recognition and e-sports will transform
the sports-event industry; and an examination of the launch of the NBA
2K League as a platform for the engagement of the next generation of sports
fans. Another first at the TEAMS Conference was the Rewards and Recognition
Roundtable, which provided sports-event organizers and host cities the
opportunity to learn how they can use non-cash incentive programs using
brand-name merchandise, gift cards and travel to achieve their organizational
objectives.
Additionally,
concurrent sessions examined topics that included sponsorship integration
and activation; waterfront developments; big-event best practices for any
sized event; live-event production for video distribution; and creating
a technological infrastructure to enhance events. Attendees had the opportunity
to attend off-site tours at ESPN Wide World of Sports and the Orange County
Convention Center as well as off-site sessions at the Golf Channel headquarters,
the WWE Performance Center, the USTA National Campus and Amway Center,
home to the NBA’s Orlando Magic.
TEAMS
’17 also featured the presentation of the 2017
SportsTravel
Awards at a gala held at Hard Rock Live Orlando and emceed by Mike
Hill of Fox Sports. The National Congress of State Games also presented
its Athlete of the Year awards. Musical entertainment was provided by Tito
Puente Jr. and his Latin Jazz Ensemble.
In
addition to educational programming, TEAMS ’17 offered numerous opportunities
for networking including the Event Organizer Marketplace, a reverse trade
show that augmented the TEAMS Expo, and a Late-Night Lounge, which offered
an informal setting for pursuing sports-related business objectives. A
closing party at Icebar Orlando included 70 tons of carved ice.
TEAMS
’18 will be held in Louisville, October 1–4. For more information
on TEAMS ’18, please visit TEAMSconference.com
or call 877-577-3700.
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For
further press information, please contact Jason Gewirtz at jgewirtz@ntmllc.com
or 720-420-9391.
Northstar
Travel Group (NorthstarTravelGroup.com)
is the owner of well-known brands including Travel Weekly, TravelAge
West, Business Travel News, Successful Meetings, Meetings
& Conventions, Travel Weekly China, Incentive, M&C
China and SportsTravel. The company produces the annual TEAMS
Conference & Expo and more than 50 face-to-face events in 13 countries
in retail travel, corporate travel, travel technology and the meetings
industry. In addition, Northstar owns Phocuswright, the leading research,
business intelligence and event producer serving the fastest growing segment
of the travel industry, online travel distribution. Northstar is also the
majority shareholder in Inntopia, the leading SaaS e-commerce software
provider serving the mountain destination, activities and specialty destination
travel markets.
Contact:
Timothy
Maxwell
Technical
Product Specialist, Marketing
310-954-2506
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