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Los
Angeles, CA – November 2017 / Newsmaker Alert / SportsTravel
announced the winners of the 2017 SportsTravel Awards at a gala
event during the TEAMS ’17 Conference
& Expo in Orlando last week. TEAMS: Travel, Events And Management
in Sports, is the world’s largest gathering of event organizers and travel
planners from the sports industry. Held at the Hard Rock Live Orlando,
the awards ceremony was emceed by Mike Hill of Fox Sports and featured
musical entertainment by Tito Puente Jr. and his Latin Jazz Ensemble. The
National Congress of State Games also announced the winners of its Athlete
of the Year awards during the gala.
The 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship featuring Clemson vs. Alabama in Tampa, Florida, was named Sports Event of the Year, as well as Best Collegiate Single-Sport Event. Other winners were the 2017 AAU Girls’ Junior National Volleyball Championships in Orlando, Florida; the 2017 National Senior Games in Birmingham, Alabama; the 2017 Major League Dragon Boat Series held in various cities; the 2017 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon; the 2017 NCAA Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Super Bowl LI in Houston, Texas; the 2017 X Games Aspen in Aspen, Colorado; the 2016 MLB World Series in Chicago, Illinois and Cleveland, Ohio; and the 2016 USA Masters Games in Greensboro, North Carolina. “The SportsTravel Awards celebrate excellence in sports-event management and production,” said Timothy Schneider, founder and chairman of the Sports Division of Northstar Travel Group, which publishes SportsTravel magazine and organizes the TEAMS Conference & Expo. “We are pleased to honor these outstanding sporting events, as well as the event organizers who create them and the cities that work tirelessly to host them.” 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, 2016, and June 30, 2017. Criteria for nomination and voting included:
Sports
Event of the Year
Best
New Event
Best
Professional Event Series or Circuit
Best
Professional Multi-Sport or Multi-Discipline Event
Best
Professional Single-Sport Event
Best
Collegiate Event Series or Circuit
Best
Collegiate Multi-Sport or Multi-Discipline Event
Best
Collegiate Single-Sport Event
Best
Amateur Event Series or Circuit
Best
Amateur Multi-Sport or Multi-Discipline Event
Best
Amateur Single-Sport Event
Hosted by Visit Orlando, TEAMS ’17 was held October 30–November 2, 2017, in Orlando. For more information, please visit TEAMSconference.com or call 877-577-3700. Tweet: Winners of the 2017 @SportsTravel Awards announced at TEAMS ’17 @TEAMSconference @VisitOrlando bit.ly/2zRZAC7 Follow TEAMS: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram 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.
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