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TEAMS: TRAVEL, EVENTS AND MANAGEMENT IN SPORTS, is the world’s leading conference and expo for the sports-event industry. Presented by SportsTravel magazine, TEAMS ’25 will be held October 13–16 in Columbus, Ohio. Launched in 1998, TEAMS attracts more than 1,000 attendees including CEOs, executive directors and event managers from sports organizations as well as representatives from sports commissions and convention bureaus, corporate sponsors, event suppliers and other hospitality industry opinion leaders. For more than 25 years, TEAMS has helped define the sports-event and appointment-based trade show industries.

WHY SPORTING EVENTS ARE VALUABLE

  • Sports-related travel generates 90 million room nights and $32 billion in direct spending every year. Sports is one of the strongest segments in the entire travel industry
  • Sports-event organizers value long-term destination and hotel relationships
  • Sports-related meetings and conventions generate nearly 25 million room nights annually
  • Sporting events are highly visible, their impact is more easily measured, they enhance the quality of life for residents of the host city and can be key to
    economic development as well as individual and business relocation
WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND TEAMS

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND TEAMS

  • Sports-specific educational content including the industry’s most innovative programming
  • One-on-one meetings with sports-event organizers and host cities, venues and sponsors for your future events
  • Appointment-based trade show
  • USOPC Olympic & Paralympic SportsLink and NGB Best Practices Seminars
  • Unrivaled networking opportunities

OUR DIVERSITY PLEDGE

We strive to create an environment of inclusion at the TEAMS Conference & Expo. We embrace, value and champion our attendees’ diverse backgrounds and the experiences that make them unique. We will continue to expand our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts to ensure that our events embrace diversity and varied points of view.

OUR COMMITMENT TO HEALTH AND SAFETY

The highest standards of safety and hygiene will be applied to Northstar Meetings Group events, both in the planning of the event, and its production and management onsite. 

OUR CULTURE INITIATIVE

The TEAMS Conference & Expo is owned, organized and operated by the Northstar Travel Group which embraces the following purpose, mission, principles and core values

Northstar Travel Group

PURPOSE

Leading the travel industry forward to make the world better.

MISSION

To be the leading global provider of trusted information and experiences for the audiences that drive the travel industry, while delivering innovative and high-performing marketing solutions to the businesses seeking to engage them.

PRINCIPLES

COLLABORATE FOR SUCCESS
We are dedicated to our partners and each other and we communicate with honesty, clarity and integrity.

HOLD HIGH STANDARDS
We are committed to excellence, seek to exceed expectations and deliver the highest quality solutions.

BE ALL IN
Our passion and commitment deliver great results.

DRIVEN BY INNOVATION
We empower creativity and seize opportunity to fully leverage our leadership position.

FUELED BY AGILITY
We inspire an adaptive approach that satisfies our partners’ and teams’ evolving needs and we thrive in an ever-changing world.

CORE VALUES

We share a passion for travel

We are a team: we support, trust, respect and care for each other

We are growth oriented: personal, professional, business and industry

We embrace individuality: who you are makes us who we are

We are inspired by fun: we love what we do, our shared experiences and the satisfaction that comes from making a meaningful impact

It has come to our attention that organizations are claiming they are representing themselves as resellers of the TEAMS Conference attendee list. Please be advised that these representations are fraudulent. If you are contacted by an organization that is not the TEAMS Conference, SportsTravel or Northstar Meetings Group, they are not representing our businesses, they do not have rights to represent our businesses, and most importantly, they do not have access to or possession of any of our lists.

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