Definitions
Importance & Impact
Evolution
Hospitality
Trends
100
This is a group of organizations involved in the production or handling of the same product or service.
What is an industry?
100
These include sporting events, sports information, sports training, and sporting goods.
What are types of sports products?
100
These are the ways that industries have evolved over time
What is social, technological, and economic?
100
This is the business of entertaining visitors
What is hospitality?
100
Changes have occurred recently which have led to a focus on developing this type of venue for the purposes of supporting the sports & entertainment industry.
What are multi-purpose venues?
200
This is a physical activity that participants engage in for pleasure or as a source of diversion.
What is a sport?
200
These include products or services such as: DVD rentals/sales, music sales and distribution, video & electronic games.
What are types of entertainment products?
200
This industry generates about $200 billion per year
What is the sports industry?
200
To elevate the customer experience at any given event
What is the goal of hospitality?
200
These are some ways that audience options have changed for the entertainment industry
What are: IMAX and 3D movies, Commercials, or full-service movie events?
300
This includes any activity that provides a diversion, amusement or is used as a method of occupying time. Examples include: watching TV, going to the movies, listening to music.
What is entertainment?
300
These include positions in fields such as sales and marketing, to include the following examples: Season Ticket Sales, Sponsorship, Marketing Coordinator, Director of Marketing/Communications.
What are careers in sports marketing?
300
In 2015, this industry generated more than $602 billion in revenue
What is the entertainment industry?
300
Some examples of this include: suites, box seats, VIP areas, and sponsored tents.
What are examples of hospitality at sports & entertainment events?
300
These are some ways that audience options have changed for professional sports
What are: improved stadium fan experience, major network coverage or pay-per-view, and fantasy leagues.
400
This is the process of developing, promoting, and distributing products & services to satisfy consumers’ needs & wants for profit.
What is marketing?
400
These provide the following common benefits to consumers who choose to participate: fun, means to escape, health, education, and involvement of all socioeconomic levels.
What are the sports & entertainment industries?
400
Event attendance is a measurement of the evolution of what aspect of the sports industry?
What is social?
400
This amenity at sports and entertainment venues typically offers superb views and catering, in addition to other benefits.
What are suites?
400
This recent trend in the sports industry involves connecting fans to their teams and all content relative to their teams, providing real time access to information across all devices and platforms.
What is fan engagement
500
These are products & services that are both educational and entertaining.
What is edutainment?
500
These provide the following common benefits to the economy as a whole: providing jobs, adding to tax revenue, enhanced quality of life, in addition to benefits to other businesses.
What are sports & entertainment industries?
500
Use of this type of technology advancement provides athletes, the media, and fans the ability to communicate real-time updates and commentary, breaking down walls that once placed distance between these parties.
What is social media?
500
This typically constitutes the most exclusive class of seating in arenas and stadiums, and generates much higher revenues than regular seating.
What are box seats?
500
This recent trend in the entertainment industry allows users to access digital content through services such as Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.
What are streaming services?
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