Sport for Business members will gather in Dublin tomorrow morning for the revival of our Members Round Table series, on this occasion looking at the challenges and opportunities arising for sports tourism.
We will discuss the public consultation now underway through the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and how we can deliver smart, focused perspectives upon which to frame a policy around the attraction of major sporting events.
We will look at the short term arrival of the College Football Classic with promoters Irish American Events and main sponsors Aer Lingus; we will look to the further horizon of the bid to stage matches as part of the UEFA Euro 2028 Finals, with the FAI; we will also look at the points on the scale between those two, at the difference between participation and fan-based events, and at what we might hope for given a blank sheet of paper.
The purpose of our Monthly Round Table discussions is to bring smart minds together in a semi-structured forum and see where that takes us.
Tomorrow we will be joined by:
Rob Hartnett, Sport for Business
Brendan Meehan, Aer Lingus College Football Classic
Jenny Rafter, Aer Lingus Head of Global Leisure Sales
Alex Saul, Chief Revenue Officer, Carr Golf
Cormac O Donnchú, Founder, Experience Gaelic Games
Fidelma Alford, Territory Manager, Sports Travel International
Eoin Kelly, Executive, Sports Travel International
David Ward, University of Limerick
Alicia McConnell, Sporting Pride, Former Director US Olympic Committee
Oliver Kirwan, Founder, Elite Events
Aidan O’Brien, Strategy Manager, FAI
Stuart Dempsey, CEO, Legion eSports and Media
Michael King, Client Services Manager, Titan Experience
Martin Murphy, CEO, Aviva Stadium
Sam Johnston, Manager Fáilte Ireland
Upcoming Round Tables will be held on:
* Sport and Physical Activity on the Road back to Workplace Wellbeing
* The Inexorable Rise of eSports and where Ireland can be a Winner
* Sports Medicine
* Third Level Sport
* The Impact of Gambling on Sport and Society
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