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Action-Packed Facilities Summit

This year’s Facilities Summit is shaping up stronger than ever! With active learning taking place during our on-location venue tour, peer-to-peer networking, and education sessions featuring industry leaders in Kansas City and beyond, you don’t want to miss this pre-Symposium Summit. For more information and to register, visit the Facilities Summit webpage

Full Slate of Rights HolderDedicated Education

Are you an industry rights holder attending Symposium and wondering where the content is for you? Look no further! For the first time, this year’s Symposium will feature a FULL SLATE of rights-holder-specific content – totaling nearly 5 hours of dedicated content focused on all the pressing issues facing industry rights holders, no matter your level or experience. Topics include Maximizing Community Impact, Cost vs. Value, Rights Holder Town Hall, and a joint-Community Group session with Dr. Morgan Myers mentioned above.

Community Group and Special Meetings Galore

Community Group Sessions

The only decision you’ll have to make is what quality content you’ll consume while in Kansas City. We’ve worked closely with all Sports ETA Community Groups to establish dedicated times for your group to meet and discuss content relevant to you. For the full schedule, click here

Destination Leader Continued Discussions

Did you attend the Chief Executive Summit in Salt Lake City? If so, you know how awesome the breakout discussions were for destination leaders. We’re continuing the momentum of that conversation and carving out nearly 2 hours for dedicated Destination Leader discussions in KC. This session will be on Tuesday, May 9, from 1 pm - 2:45 pm and will be facilitated by some of the best in the business. If you’re a destination leader, don’t miss it!

Featured Courses

“Beyond Economic Impact: How to Leverage Sports Events and Tourism to Build Community Value” by Dr. Jennifer Stoll is now available!

Courses in the Works

We’re working away on several new Certificate Playbook courses that will bring you up to speed on essential industry knowledge and earn you certificates and STS credits. Courses in the works include:

• Funding Sports Tourism (with our partners at Civitas)

• Sports Tourism Media (with our partners at Northstar Meetings Group)

• Cross-promotion of education and new courses (with our partners at Destinations International and Meeting Professionals International)

– Sports ETA members receive a 20% discount off MPI’s live/online courses. Use coupon code SportsETA_MemberRate.

• And much more!