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Winners of the 2016 SportsTravel Awards Announced
at TEAMS �16 in Atlantic City
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2016 NBA Finals in Oakland, California, and Cleveland, Ohio, takes top honor
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| Los
Angeles, CA � September 2016 / Newsmaker Alert / SportsTravel
announced the winners of the 2016 SportsTravel Awards during a gala
event at the TEAMS �16 Conference
& Expo in Atlantic City Tuesday evening (September 27). 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 Harrah�s Waterfront Conference Center, the awards ceremony was emceed
by broadcaster Bonnie Bernstein and featured newly crowned Miss America
and a musical performance by Emmy Award�winning Tonic Sol-fa.
| The 2016 NBA Finals held in Oakland, California, and Cleveland, Ohio, was named Sports Event of the Year, as well as Best Professional Event Series or Circuit. Other winners were the 2015 IWF Weightlifting World Championships in Houston; the 2016 Invictus Games in Orlando, Florida; the 2016 Divas Half Marathon and 5K Series; the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship in Glendale, Arizona; the 2016 NCAA Women�s Gymnastics Championships in Fort Worth, Texas; the 2016 NCAA Frozen Four in Tampa, Florida; Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, California; the 2015 Reebok Crossfit Games in Carson, California; and the 2016 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship in Gulf Shores, Alabama. �As the gold standard for the sports-event industry, the SportsTravel Awards celebrate excellence in sports-event management and production,� said Timothy Schneider, publisher of SportsTravel, which organizes the annual TEAMS Conference & Expo. �It is our pleasure to recognize these outstanding sporting events�as well as the event organizers and host cities who create 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, 2015, and June 30, 2016. 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 the Atlantic City Sports Commission and Meet AC, TEAMS �16 is being held through September 29 in Atlantic City. For more information, please visit TEAMSconference.com or call 877-577-3700. Tweet: Winners of the 2016 @SportsTravel Awards announced at TEAMS�16 @TEAMSconference @PlayACSports @Meet_AC bit.ly/2dgMUcD Follow TEAMS: Twitter, Facebook and Instagram The TEAMS Conference & Expo is organized by Los Angeles�based Schneider Publishing, which publishes SportsTravel, the sports world�s event magazine, and Association News, America�s most-read magazine for association executives. TEAMS �17 will be held October 30�November 2, 2017, and TEAMS �18 will be held October 1�4, 2018. In addition to TEAMS, Schneider Publishing organizes Meetings Quest, North America�s longest-running series of trade shows for meeting planners. The group travel markets served by Schneider Publishing generate 106 million hotel room nights annually. Media
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TEAMS, Association News and Meetings Quest are registered trademarks
of Schneider Publishing Company, Inc.
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