Published: February 11, 2010
Fans Traveling Around the Country - Another Sign of Economic Up-Turn
CHICAGO - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Each year thousands of people travel all around the country to see their
favorite teams play. Premiere Global Sports, a global leader in travel,
hospitality and marketing services to sporting events is pleased to
report that despite the economy, sports fans traveled in high volumes
this college bowl season. Through the company's three divisions,
Premiere Sports Travel, Premiere College Sports and GoTickets,
approximately 9,000 people traveled to bowl games and purchased various
ticket and travel packages. This travel resulted in more than 6,000
hotel nights being booked and over 5,000 tickets sold to thirteen bowl
games. This is nearly double the fans that traveled last year.
Premiere College Sports is the largest official collegiate travel and
hospitality company in the United States representing over 50
universities which include Oregon, Ohio State, South Carolina,
Wisconsin, West Virginia, Miami, Iowa, Penn State, Nebraska, Oregon
State, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Florida, Clemson and Iowa State. Of
these official partnerships, fifteen universities traveled approximately
7,500 fans to bowl games such as The Rose Bowl, Gator Bowl and Orange
Bowl.
"We are extremely fortunate to have these special relationships with our
university partners," said Christy Bruce, Executive Vice President of
Premiere College Sports. "We value the support of each school and their
loyal fans."
Premiere Sports Travel provided travel and accommodations to 1,500 fans
with over 6,000 hotel nights for the BCS National Championship Game and
the Rose Bowl.
"This year's bowl travel season exceeded our expectations," said Brian
Wilder, Executive Vice President of Premiere Sports Travel. "Despite the
economic downturn we are currently facing, retailers and consumers are
beginning to travel to their favorite sporting events again."
The Daytona 500 is the next major event for Premiere Global Sports and
they anticipate positive fan response to their ticket and travel
packages. To learn more about Premiere Global Sports and their events,
visit www.premieresports.com.
About Premiere Global Sports:
Premiere Global Sports, headquartered in Chicago, is the largest,
integrated sports marketing and hospitality company in the United
States. The Company consisting of four divisions; New York-based
Premiere Corporate Events (premierecorporateevents.com), a full-service
sports marketing company that provides customized incentive and
brand-building programs for Fortune 1000 clients; North Carolina-based
Premiere Sports Travel (sportstravel.com), a leading sports travel and
hospitality company that sells direct to consumers; Champaign, IL-based
Premiere College Sports (collegesportstravel.com), the nation's leading
full-service "official" collegiate sports tour provider with more than
50 partner schools from the Big 10, Big 12, ACC, SEC, PAC 10, Big East
and other major conferences; and North Carolina-based Gotickets.com
(gotickets.com), one of the leading ticket brokerage services for sports
and entertainment events.
Premiere Global Sports
Ann-Marie Sales
annmarie@genmp.com
919-624-5733
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