TOURNAMENT FAMILY EDITION · THE SSIYC COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
For Sports Families
Make More of Every Tournament Trip
Support Sports in Your City™ helps sports families discover useful businesses, services, and experiences in the cities they visit for tournaments.
Your Player may be traveling for the competition.
The rest of the family is traveling too.
Between games, families have time to eat, shop, explore and enjoy the destination. Parents may need practical services, while siblings and grandparents often want something to do away from the rink.
Support Sports in Your City™ brings those opportunities together.
Your Tournament Is More Than the Games
A Tournament can occupy an entire weekend.
Games may account for only a few hours of that time.
What happens during the rest of the trip?
Families may want a Team meal after the game.
Free time creates opportunities to explore the city.
A long break between games might become a family activity.
Sunday afternoon could turn into an experience everyone remembers.
The Tournament brought you to the city.
Support Sports in Your City™ helps you enjoy more of it.
Discover Businesses That Want Your Family
Local businesses benefit when tournaments bring visiting families into their communities.
Support Sports in Your City™ helps participating businesses introduce themselves to those families.
That can make planning easier.
Instead of arriving in an unfamiliar city and searching from scratch, families can discover businesses that want to serve the sports community.
Restaurants may welcome Teams and groups.
Attractions can provide something to do between games.
Retailers offer shopping opportunities.
Useful local services may help when something unexpected happens during the trip.
You decide what your family needs.
Spend Your Time Enjoying the Trip
Tournament weekends can become complicated quickly.
Schedules change.
Games may be several hours apart.
Weather can interfere with plans.
Someone forgets something.
A sibling gets bored.
Parents suddenly need a restaurant that can handle an entire Team.
Having useful local information available can make those situations easier.
Support Sports in Your City™ helps families spend less time searching and more time enjoying their Tournament experience.
Turn Tournament Travel Into Family Time
Sports travel creates opportunities that families might never have planned on their own.
A Tournament can introduce you to another city.
One weekend may lead to a favorite restaurant.
Another trip could introduce the family to an attraction worth returning to.
Children can remember the Championship game.
Parents might remember the Team dinner afterward.
Siblings may remember the attraction everyone visited between games.
Those experiences become part of the tournament.
Your Spending Matters to the City
Tournament families bring significant economic activity into host communities.
Every visit creates opportunities for local businesses.
Meals are purchased.
Hotels accommodate traveling teams.
Shopping takes place throughout the weekend.
Attractions welcome families during free time.
Other services benefit as thousands of visitors live in the community temporarily.
SPORTS FAMILIES
Bring energy into the city.
Create local spending.
Discover new businesses.
Build Tournament memories.
Help strengthen the communities that host their events.
That relationship works both ways.
Strong local businesses can help create better tournament destinations for families.
Support the Businesses That Support Sports
Participating businesses are not simply being asked to donate to sports.
They are advertising because sports families are valuable customers.
When you choose to visit one of those businesses, you are making your own purchasing decision.
There is no obligation.
However, supporting businesses that actively want sports families as customers can strengthen the relationship between sport and the communities that host it.
Families Can Participate in Another Way
Support Sports in Your City™ can also create earning opportunities for parents, Players, students, and other local participants who help introduce suitable businesses to the program.
Some families may want only the local information.
Others may decide to get involved.
When a participant helps generate an advertising relationship, that person may share in the advertising revenue they help create under the program terms.
Participation does not automatically create an entitlement to revenue.
The earning opportunity comes from contributing to the program’s business development.
Starting With Hockey and Growing Across Sports
Support Sports in Your City™ begins by developing the model through Hockey.
Tournament Hockey gives us a strong learning environment because Teams and families regularly travel into communities for entire weekends.
The larger vision includes all sports.
Baseball families travel.
Soccer creates Tournament weekends.
Basketball brings Teams into cities.
Volleyball, lacrosse, softball, and many other sports generate similar family travel.
Different sports.
Different destinations.
The same opportunity to connect visiting families with the communities hosting them.
Make the City Part of the Tournament
The games will always be the reason you traveled.
They do not have to be the only thing your family remembers.
Use Support Sports in Your City™ to discover places to eat, things to do, businesses to visit, and experiences worth adding to the trip.
