Host City: How do you see the esports events landscape evolving in the next five years, and what role does BLAST intend to play in shaping that evolution?

[Source: BLAST] Esports entertainment company BLAST has kicked off its formal destination selection process ahead of an exciting calendar of major esports events in 2024 and beyond. 

Qatar is in formal talks with the International Olympic Committee about the possibility of hosting a future Summer Olympic Games, but the question of moving the event to a different time of year is

Concerns about the effects of climate change on potential hosts of the Winter Olympics have led the IOC to delay the election of the host of the 2030 Games.

[Source: IOC] An IOC member since 2020, Mrs Grabar-Kitarović is a former President of the Republic of Croatia. She will lead the Commission with immediate effect.

[Source: SportAccord] SportAccord has launched the host city application processes for future editions of the SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit from 2023 and the Regional SportAccord fr

[Source: SportAccord] GAISF has launched the host city selection process for future editions of various world multi-sport events, including the World Urban Games, World Combat Games and World Mind

• Brisbane moved to “targeted dialogue” as the first project to meet feasibility criteria

• This doesn’t mean a host has been elected now

[Source: SailGP] Following the announcement of an expanded event calendar for its second season that opens in less than 50 days and features eight events across three continents, SailGP today opene

[Source: FIFA] As part of the next stage of the venue selection process, FIFA has provided further information to the 

[Source: SportAccord] Cities interested in hosting the global sports industry’s most influential annual gathering in 2022 or  subsequent editions have been invited to submit a

Host City: Congratulations on your appointment as chair of the recently formed Future Host Commission. What is the Commission’s primary role?

The State Government of Queensland confirmed on Monday 9^th December that it has given the green light to bidding for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

(Source: The Sports Consultancy) Nitro Circus, the world’s largest action sports brand, has appointed The Sports Consultancy

Air Race E plans to run a series of international electric air racing events, starting with the inaugural race in 2020, in an effort to facilitate the development and promotion of cleaner, faster a

[Source: The Sports Consultancy] INTERKULTUR, the world's leading organiser of international choir competitions and festivals, is delighted to announce that it has received an unprecedented 33 expr

Members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have voted to grant the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games hosting rights to Italy’s Milan-Cortina ahead of a rival bid from Stockholm- År

The European Athletics Executive Board has invited Göteborg in Sweden, the region of Silesia in Poland, and Minsk, the capital of Belarus, to proceed with bidding for the 2024 European Athletics Ch

After two successive Olympic bidding contests in which the number of cities in the race fell to just two, the head of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) says hard w

[Source: IOC] The International Olympic Committee has approved plans to target African National Olympic Committees (NOCs) as potential host cities of the fourth edition of the Summer Youth Olympic

I have the pleasure of welcoming you all to my host city for the third time – and seeing how this event has developed and grown over the years.

The reasons behind the evolving event hosting landscape can be debated: better informed government officials; a new point of view from the public; PR-sensitive executives thinking about impact on s

The membership of the IOC on Tuesday unanimously approved the proposal to award the hosting rights of both the 2024 and 2028 Games at the next IOC session in Lima in September.

Susan Sawbridge has joined the New Zealand Major Events team at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment to head up a new unit focused on event prospecting.