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All About Booking Tickets for Cricket´s ICC Champions Trophy 2025

The ICC Champions Trophy is one of the world´s most anticipated cricket tournaments, and fans from across the globe are eagerly waiting for this year´s prestigious event to unfold, this year between February 19 and March 9, spread between Dubai and Pakistan (Karachi, Lahore, and Rawalpindi). As the tournament date approaches, here´s everything to know about tickets, including their prices, availability, and the best tips for booking. read post

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Why Tahiti temporarily became an unlikely sports travel destination this past summer

The Terramar Project Fairly mountainous and surrounded by coral reefs, the archipelago´s largest and most populous island (with some 192,000 inhabitants) is its cultural and economic heart. On the northwest coast, its capital Papeete (pop. just under 27,000) is, to quote Tahiti Tourism´s own website “not the prettiest of towns,” but it does have some interesting corners, including the landscaped waterfront, the cathedral, the presidential palace, the Sunday-morning Papeete market, a pearl…

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New York's Baseball Hall of Fame in 'Nostalgia Front & Center in Some U.S. Museums & Eateries'

Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame Louis Kaplan is channeling his childhood. While a youngster, he collected baseball cards which he stored in boxes and treasured as souvenirs of the USA's favorite pastime. Decades later, he’s reliving that time while visiting the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, upstate New York. Opportunities to recapture memories from the past are of course not limited to baseball, nor to New York. From Coca-Cola to cars, movies to museums,…

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Sports For My Brazil Visit?

Hi Everyone!In the mid of February next year, I going to Brazil for a formal tour. However, I would get a few days for vacations in this regard and I want to play some sports there. Indeed, many of you would suggest me to play football there but I want to know your views about playing beach soccer, judo and surfing there. Do you think these things are allowed in this current pandemic situation or I would need special permission or 14 days quarantine before participating in these games there?…

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Jorge Carlos Tejada Sobrino February 7, 2025 at 6:53pm

I always love to get in a game of tennis whenever I can, so found this pretty enticing! https://www.cntraveler.com/story/best-hotels-with-tennis-courts

The Best Hotels With Tennis Courts, From Sporty Resorts to Oceanfront Hideaways

These hotel tennis courts will make you feel like you're an extra on "Challengers."
Jorge Carlos Tejada Sobrino December 6, 2024 at 12:23pm

A report on the recently held World Sports Tourism Congress in Madrid: https://www.traveldailynews.com/special-interest-travel/recreation-...

Creating a lasting legacy for destinations at the 3rd WSTC

The 3rd World Sports Tourism Congress (WSTC) highlighted sports tourism's role in economic diversification and sustainability, emphasizing the need f…
Ken Kok Lee October 10, 2024 at 7:00pm

An interesting article about sports tourism and China: https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/how-sports-tourism-...

How Sports Tourism Fuels China’s Consumer Growth And Travel Industry - Travel And Tour World

China’s booming sports tourism industry is reshaping travel trends, driving consumer spending, and offering young travelers active, immersive experie…
Max Pesling July 26, 2024 at 11:39am

Interesting.-.turns out Paris isn´t quite so packed for the Games as everyone thought: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/paris-fewer-olympics-tourists-exp...

Paris has fewer Olympic tourists than expected: Here are a few last-minute deals

With fewer visitors than Paris first predicted, there are still some travel deals available for the Olympics host city.
Dave Acton April 23, 2024 at 9:33am

Le Monde looks ahead at the upcoming Paris Olympics: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sports/article/2024/04/17/paris-2024-100-...

Paris 2024: 100 days from the Olympics, should we rejoice or worry?

COLUMN. With 100 days to go before the start of the Olympic Games, security and budget scares are casting doubt on the state of preparation for the e…
Jordan Simon September 2, 2023 at 10:45am

Would you believe Sri Lanka as a sports tourism destination? https://www.dailynews.lk/2023/08/30/sports/98395/sri-lanka-to-be-pr...

Sri Lanka to be promoted as a world renowned Tourism and Sports destination - DailyNews

Nic Styles ex Wallabies player and coach, and General Manager of Melbourne Rebels (fifth from left) addressing the media at a press…
María José July 28, 2023 at 10:07am

Lonely Planet just published a comprehensive guide on how to plan to attend the Summer Olympics in Paris next year: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/paris-olympics-2024-trip-plan...
Helen Brown November 2, 2022 at 1:19pm

Here's how one city - Richmond, capital of the U.S. state of Virginia - is going all in on sports tourism: https://richmond.com/business/local/richmond-area-emerges-as-destin...

Richmond area emerges as destination for sports tourism with $76 million economic impact

The Richmond region is becoming a hotbed for one of the world’s fastest-growing tourism industries: sports tourism.
María José April 14, 2022 at 10:58am

FIFA has just opened a second phase of ticket sales for the World Cup in November, following the sale of 800,000 tickets in the first sale phase. The "Random Selection Draw" sales period, allowing fans to supply for tickets to two matches in one day, is currently open via FIFA.com/tickets and runs until 28 April. More details at https://www.breakingtravelnews.com/news/article/fifa-opens-second-p...
Riccardo R March 11, 2022 at 11:08am

With the football World Cup now on the horizon (21 November-18 December), just this past week U.S. travel maven Chris Elliott interviewed Berthold Trenkel, the German COO of Qatar Tourism, about the new developments in the emirate that the million or so expected visitors will encounter: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherelliott/2022/03/08/world-cl...

‘World-Class’ Attractions Coming Ahead Of World Cup, Says Qatar Tourism COO

New tourism projects, including hotels and attractions, are under construction in advance of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. An interview with Qatar Tou…