The FIFA World Cup in South Africa has improved the nation’s sports market to £1.53bn, an increase of 84.6%, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ latest outlook for the global sports market from 2011 until 2015.
January 30th, 2012
London 2012 Olympic Games organisers dispute new cost report
London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe has insisted preparations for the Olympic Games remain within budget after a report claimed that the cost of staging the event has increased to more than £12 billion. The UK government’s public sector budget for the Games totals £9.3 billion, which includes all venue construction and infrastructure projects. That figure [...]
January 17th, 2012
TUI Travel PLC appoint The Sports Consultancy
TUI Travel PLC’s Specialist and Activity Sector’s Marine Division, has today announced the appointment of The Sports Consultancy as part of a business wide approach to building strategic brand partnerships. The world leaders in water-based vacations offer a portfolio of leading brands including Sunsail, The Moorings and Le Boat. The company has initially instructed The [...]
January 16th, 2012
Buenos Aires Bids to Host 2018 Youth World Games
Argentine Olympic Committee (COA) president Gerardo Werthein has announced that Buenos Aires would bid to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. They will compete with Monterrey, Mexico; Medellin, Colombia; Abuja, Nigeria; and Kaspiysk, Russia when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) choose the host city in June 2013. “We believe that Buenos Aires would be an [...]
December 20th, 2011
UK Cities to Consider a Bid for the Youth Olympic Games 2018
The British Olympic Association has invited cities in the UK to submit applications if they are interested in bidding to host the Youth Olympic Games in 2018. The BOA announced yesterday that it was considering a bid and that potential candidates must submit applications by a deadline of January 30, 2012. Glasgow in Scotland, the [...]
December 15th, 2011
American Sports Leagues in Good Shape
Two of America’s largest sports leagues have demonstrated in the last week that they can not only weather the tough financial climate, but are actually thriving in it. The NBA, fresh from the resolution of a labour dispute which had threatened an entire season – the league will now commence on Christmas day following a [...]
December 15th, 2011
BOA Takes Drugs Ban Fight to CAS
The British Olympic Association (BOA) will turn to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in its fight to defend its strict anti-doping enforcement policy. The BOA is currently the only National Olympic Committee to impose a lifetime Olympic ban on any athlete who has been banned for more than six months for a doping [...]
December 13th, 2011
Golf’s European Tour Extends ‘Race to Dubai’ After Sponsor Confirms Commitment
The European Tour has extended its deal with the hosts of the season-ending Dubai World Championship for a further three years. Consequently, the ‘Race to Dubai’, the name for the Tour’s overall prize money list, will continue until at least 2014. The announcement comes after DP World, the world’s third largest marine terminal operator, renewed [...]
November 28th, 2011
TSC SUPPORTS FEI IN RECORD HOST CITY BIDDING PROCESS
The FEI, the international governing body for equestrian sports, has announced that a record eight countries have submitted initial applications to stage the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2018. The FEI appointed The Sports Consultancy in 2010 to review the Federation’s Host City bidding processes and bring best practice to the tender process for the selection [...]
November 22nd, 2011
ATP NAMES RIO DE JANEIRO AS OFFICIAL TOURISM DESTINATION
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has announced that Rio de Janeiro will serve as the official tourism destination of the ATP World Tour under terms of a new two-year agreement. “The ATP World Tour provides the perfect opportunity for the state of Rio de Janeiro to showcase internationally the unique combination of one of [...]