As ALSD international counts down to its evolution into a 365 community to enable year-round engagement and prepares to announce details for the 2022 event, hear about the key learnings, developments and more from the 2021 edition of the industry’s leading conference and exhibition for the premium Seat & sports Hospitality sector, hosted by Liverpool Football Club.

Following an unprecedented 18 months, the 2020/21 hybrid edition of ALSD international was finally able to proceed at Liverpool FC’s iconic Anfield Stadium back in September, with some 200+ industry executives registered from across the UK, Europe and wider afield; the majority of whom attended in person. 

As the only conference and exhibition dedicated to the premium Seat & sports Hospitality sector outside of North America, those in attendance benefited from insights and key learnings from leading industry experts on increasing revenue through new Builds, renovations and service Expansions, especially through niches including architecture & Design, Catering & Concessions, fan Experience, Hospitality, premium Seating, Sponsorship, technology and Rebuilding & Recovery. 

The event also provided a much-needed opportunity to network and Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Alemania engage with peers on the challenges, what’s worked, and what hasn’t, and how the industry can move forward in these challenging times. 

Proceedings commenced with a behind-the-scenes tour of M&S bank Arena Liverpool within the ACCL Campus, and a breakfast networking event, sponsored by Sodexo, before delegates were transported to Anfield’s main Stand, ready for the conference and exhibition to commence.

High-level conference
During the course of the conference, some 40+ top-calibre industry executives took on subjects including:

The Future of premium Seating

Rebuilding & Recovery

The Future of Hospitality

How to Optimise ROI

Delivering an enhanced fan Experience

The big Event: how to Maximise Your Value

Join Our Club: become a Club Member, Not just a Hospitality Buyer

Stadiums of the Future

Maximising Sponsorship Activation

The transformation of Anfield

In addition, Euroleague Basketball ran a panel session, focused on the challenges of the last 1.5 years and how the league and its clubs, including FC Bayern and Zalgiris Kaunas, have worked to keep Camiseta Schalke 04 fans, sponsors and stakeholders engaged, while Rob Hunden, President, Hunden strategic Partners, outlined what facilities are going up around the world, trends in different sports and facility types, and added new research that piqued attendees attention.

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Keynote speakers
Highlights from ALSD international 2021 included keynotes from Nick Sautner, chief executive Officer, Eden Park Stadium, who discussed “Transformational change to deliver greater Utilisation” and Andy Hughes, Managing director of Liverpool FC, who kicked off day two with an overview of the club and recent developments.

Andy highlighted the club’s journey on and off the pitch, from their recent Premier league title to significant infrastructure improvements, including the state-of-the-art AXA training Centre and opening the new main Stand, taking Anfield to the next level.

Andy summarised that:

Football is the priority but getting our football facilities right was also a critical priority… It was highly complex delivering world-class sporting facilities in a unique and special building.

The client and design team, including Liverpool FC Vice President, stadium Operations, Paul Cuttill, KSS associate Director, Debbie Power and 20.20 Ltd creative director Jon Lee, presented the detail behind the “Transformation of Anfield”. focusing on the commercial redevelopment of the main Stand that began in 2012 to the future of the Anfield road Stand, which secured planning this year and has recently started on site, with completion due for 2023.

Expert speakers
The event featured more than 40 top-calibre industry expert speakers, including:

Alan Gilpin, CEO, world Rugby

Jon Dutton, CEO, Rugby league world cup 2021

Guy Dunstan, Managing Director, Ticketing & Arenas, NEC Group

Rob March, director of Commercial, Chester Race Group

Rob Paddon, director venue Sales, Fulham FC

Fabian Fischer, chief business Officer, FC Bayern

Becci Thomson, Head of premium Sales, Co-op Live

Chris Maddison, commercial Director, Delaware North

Megan Ashfield, Principal, Populous

Franco Segarra, innovation Director, Valencia CF

Nils Braude, Managing Director, Twickenham Experience/The RFU

Andy Muggleton, commercial Director, Marylebone Cricket Club/Lord’s

Nick Marshall, Director, KSS

Tom Lynch, group commercial director & senior VP, Europe, ASM Global

Oliver Wright, Head of Hospitality & Sales, Everton FC

Danny Macklin, CEO, Leyton Orient

Sponsors & exhibitors
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The Drone Racing league has hired Rachel Jacobson as president Camiseta SL Benfica to oversee worldwide partnerships as well as media rights deals. Jacobson, who becomes one of the only women presidents at a expert Camiseta Copa Mundial de Fútbol sports league, is the former senior vice president of worldwide partnerships for the NBA.

In addition, Jacobson will lead the league’s advertising as well as company advancement teams.

“Leaders across the sports as well as tech markets like as well as respect Rachel — she’s tenacious, tactical as well as laser focused on providing ROI for partners, as well as we’re thrilled for her to join the league,” stated DRL CEO as well as creator Nicholas Horbaczewski.

DRL has seen a recent uptick of almost 200 percent in typical viewership, 90 percent enhanced online Camiseta Southampton FC drone racing involvement as well as 60 percent fan growth across social media, according to the league. The drone action has been broadcast on NBC, Twitter as well as Weibo.

Jacobson previously helped 21 years at the NBA, where she closed almost $1 billion in partnership sales. many recently, she served as chief company advancement policeman at Landit, a customized profession pathing innovation aimed at enhancing the success as well as interaction of women as well as diverse groups in the workplace.

“I am extremely thrilled to join the Drone Racing league as president as well as look ahead to integrating new worldwide partners into the thrilling sport of expert drone racing,” she said. “Blending the digital with the real, DRL is understood as a real-life video game as well as takes whatever I like about conventional sports as well as intersects it with cutting edge technology, ingenious storytelling as well as esports competition to engage the next generation of fans.”

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AFL architects is undertaking £4m worth of calculated development projects at the bet365 stadium and Clayton wood training Ground.

The Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Serbia five-year programme of works will be carried out for Stoke City, including infrastructure works, hospitality upgrades and upgrade works at the training grounds. A major element is the installation of 8,400 new seats in the Franklyn Stand, bringing it into line with the seating improvements throughout the rest of the stadium.

The Tile mountain and South Stands will be upgraded with new washroom facilities, supplying even more improvements to the matchday experience.

Richard Smith, Stoke City’s Vice Chairman, said:

The work we will be carrying out represents the start of a five-year refurbishment and construction programme across our properties. We are confident the work we are carrying out at the bet365 stadium will substantially enhance the match-day experience for supporters. The refurbishment programme represents a significant investment by the club’s owners and underlines their continuing commitment to the football club.

The programme of works is already in the design stages, with construction due to commence at the end of the current season.

Completion is planned ahead of the 2022-23 campaign.

The design of new stadium hospitality for Stoke City
Upgrades to the existing hospitality at bet365 stadium will vastly improve the fan experience at the home of the sky bet championship side, as well as supply new space for non-match day functions. The largest of these, Delilah’s Bar at Boothen end corner, will be transformed to become a sports bar on the lower floor with new large screen TVs, new toilet facilities and enhanced bar and catering facilities. The upper level will undergo refurbishment to create an improved function suite with new kitchen facilities.

The Chairman’s Suite and Boardroom will be combined to form a 60-cover venue, available for hire for private events as well as continuing to host directors and guests on match days. The Stanley Matthews Suite and the Player’s Lounge will also undergo significant refurbishment.

The improvement of these spaces will enable the club to offer improved hospitality packages, as well as opening the stadium to host events outside of match days.

John Hampton, AFL Architects, said:

Our continuing partnership with Stoke City has proven very gratifying for the team. We are thrilled to be part of this major new step forward in the club’s future, improving the matchday experience for the fans, the facilities for the players, and ensuring long-term sustainable growth for Stoke City.

This will be the largest stadium infrastructure project carried out by the club considering that AFL’s 2016-17 stadium redevelopment design, including the South east corner Stand, stadium reseating, a major upgrade of and boosted choice of available facilities, the installation of two big screens and a matchday media centre.

The AFL team also carried out the design and Camiseta West Ham United delivery of Clayton wood training facility in phases between 2009 and 2016 including reconfiguration and expansion works to adapt to the club ambitions and training methods.

Source & imagery, courtesy: AFL Architects

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As fall turns into winter, here are a few reasons to celebrate now and some things to look forward to.

NATIONAL CHAMPS COME TO CRAFTSBURY

This winter, Vermonters will have the opportunity to toe the line with some of Camiseta Sanfrecce Hiroshima the top cross-country skiers in the country when the Craftsbury outdoor center hosts the U.S. cross country Ski national championships in January. It’s the first time since 2012 that the Nationals have come to Vermont. Last year’s Nationals were in Anchorage, Alaska.

Running from Jan. 3 through 8, 2019, the event features an open mass start on Sunday, Jan. 6, with a 30K race for men and a 20K race for women. Both races will be loops, making for great spectating. Both events are open to anyone who wishes to register.

On Friday, Jan. 4, Olympians and U.S. Nordic team members such as Ida Sargent of Barton (who grew up training at Craftsbury), will race in the classic sprint series. “Anyone can enter the time trial [for the sprints],” says Craftsbury Nordic Race director Ollie Burruss.

“The top 30 in the men’s and women’s fields will qualify for an open heat to compete for several rounds of head-to-head racing for the national championship. The spread from first place through 30th is a difference of about 15 seconds, so it will be an action-packed afternoon,” said Burruss.

Skiers will be competing for SuperTour points, which contribute to their ranking and ability to qualify for a spot on the U.S. team at the world championships in Seefeld, Austria.

This year’s event will also feature sit ski races for para-athletes and will serve as a qualifying event for the Paralympics. athletes will race in a staggered sprint format. “If you have any base-level knowledge of cross-country skiing and see someone race on a sit ski, you are just blown away by how strong you have to be to compete and by how tough they are,” said Burruss.

Other events include a 10/15K classic individual start, a classic sprint, a freestyle mass start and a freestyle sprint.  —Abagael Giles

RETURN OF THE STOWE DERBY?
For the last three years, one of Camiseta Watford FC the most iconic races in Vermont has been cancelled due to weather. This year, the Stowe Derby, which has historically drawn as many as 900 racers in classic, freestyle and now even fat bike divisions, is being moved up to January 13, with the traditional date of Feb. 24 as the “rain” date. “We’re crossing our fingers,” says Camiseta Nagoya Grampus Brooke Mitchell of the hosting mount Mansfield Ski Club.

The Stowe Derby typically takes skiers from the top of the Mt. Mansfield Toll road in Stowe, over roughly 20 kilometers and more than a 2,700 foot elevation drop down to the town of Stowe, on a combination of alpine and Nordic ski trails. between 1945 and 2016 the race was only canceled twice; once due to lack of snow and once during the heat of world war II.

Then came 2016, one of the worst snow years on record. The following year, scouring winds and rain left the course with a surface like a luge-run. In 2018, lack of snow also made the course unsafe.

“This year, with the new date and the traditional date as a back-up we’re hoping we can make it happen,” Mitchell says. To get updates, visit mmsc-mmwa.org. —Lisa Lynn

NOVICE MARATHONER MAKES OLYMPIC TRIALS
For most runners, qualifying for the Olympic trials is a long-term dream. For 28-year-old Meagan Boucher, it happened in her second marathon.

On October 21, the St. Johnsbury resident qualified for the 2020 Olympic marathon team trials after setting a women’s course record in the 30th annual Baystate Marathon in Lowell, Mass.

Meagan Boucher of St. Johnsbury winning her second marathon ever. photo courtesy Baystate Marathon.
Boucher ran the course in 2:42:23.7, shattering the previous course record of 2:45:36. To earn a spot at the Olympic Trials, she had to finish with a time of 2:45:00 or less. Boucher beat her only other marathon time (the 2017 new York City Marathon) by 15 minutes.

Boucher, who grew up in Manchester, N.H., teaches geometry at St. Johnsbury Academy and is the assistant coach for the cross-country team. In her first year at the university of new Hampshire she earned a spot on the cross-country team as a walk-on and competed in middle distance events and steeplechase.

She became interested in running marathons after a running injury caused her to shift her focus to triathlon. “It really opened me up to the routine of training for two, three hours a day. but then I realized that what I really cared about in those races was the running leg,” said Boucher in October.

Her initial goal was to run a sub 2:50:00 marathon. “Then I asked my coach, Sam Davis, if I should just go for it. He was apprehensive at first, but then we had a conversation and he said I should,” said Boucher. Davis, a well-known coach from Burlington, helped her to develop a plan to pace herself such that by the halfway mark of the marathon she would be on pace to qualify for the Olympic Trials. “I didn’tnullnull

What is the crucial to turning potential into performance? Why is it that some talented individuals fail to fulfil their early promise? Why do some students bloom later than others and go on to outperform everyone’s expectation? A psychologist in America has been investigating these questions and believes she is starting to discover the answer: it’s all about gritty you are.

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Angela Duckworth, a psychologist and former teacher, is leading research into grit, something she explains as being a combination of passion and perseverance, determination and direction. Her findings are being a lot more and a lot more frequently applied in schools in America, and now in England too.

KEY STUDIES

Duckworth’s seminal grit study focused on two areas: the us military and a student spelling competition.

To be accepted at the united states military Academy at West Point, you have to be very clever, exceptionally fit and demonstrate exceptional leadership skills. From the lots of who apply, only a few who are chosen. But despite this arduous application process, nearly 10% of participants drop out after two months, with lots of citing the physical and mental toll of the training as a reason for leaving. The difference between those who quit and those who successfully complete training? Their levels of grit.

When investigating which children did best at a national spelling contest grit emerged as a crucial aspect figuring out which children would do best. The students who stuck with their practice and homework for longest did better. talent was still a aspect in these two studies, but it was what the participants did with it that mattered more.

In these studies, grit was determined using a self-report questionnaire where participants rated themselves. In the subsequent years, armed with each participants grit score, Duckworth and her team were able to successfully predict which participants would prosper Camiseta VfL Wolfsburg and which would fail. These findings advanced our knowledge about what might make people successful as it integrated separate concepts such as motivation and work-ethic into one construct.

Should we show grit in schools?

Keen to harness the findings of this new research (and off the back of this TED talk), a lot more and a lot more schools are trying to help their students become grittier. This has taken the form Camiseta Crystal Palace FC of workshops, guest-speakers, jobs and minimizing the taboo around failure and mistakes. This is being done to try and improve grades and develop crucial life skills.

But what effect does grit actually have on students’ test scores? A recent study found that student’s level of grit only accounted for 0.5% of their GCSE results – hardly a ringing endorsement. Angela Duckworth herself suggests that self-control is a better predictor of test scores than grit, and that grit may be a better predictor of not dropping out of school, instead of examination results (though a lot more research on the underlying mechanism as to why this may be the case is still needed).

The challenge relating to grit is can the findings from the military and spelling bee be applied in schools? For example, the military study was terrific at predicting which super-talented recruits would quit. but pupils have to stay at school until they are 16. Or how about the spelling bee, where the participants were already very inspired and high achieving? Does this apply to students in schools who have not been very successful previously?

There are also questions about whether applying grit interventions is the ideal fit for young children and teenagers. As mentioned, it is a self-report questionnaire. You score lower on the grit scale if you agree with the statement “my interests change from year to year”. but having changing interests is part of being a teenager – it’s a time when you are indicated to sample different things and explore what your enthusiasms and strengths are.

But just because grit has limited impact on examination results doesn’t indicate it has no value – teaching the value of passion and persistence, and how to nurture them is a helpful life skill. What’s more, even small changes can benefit lots Camiseta Atletico Mineiro of students. A recent review on 88 grit studies found that grit is “only moderately correlated with performance” and that interventions created to enhance grit may only have a small effect on success. However, the authors note that this sort of impact can have a very meaningful impact in the real world, “a grit intervention that increases the retention rate in college by even a single potential point would potentially benefit countless students”.

For her part, Angela Duckworth has preached caution on how people utilise her research. She acknowledges the value that talent and chance can play and says grit is an incomplete theory – but it is still an crucial one that needs additionally research.

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Don Staley, president as well as chief executive policeman of Tuscaloosa tourism & sports Commission, has been provided a three-year contract extension according to the Tuscaloosa News.

“We are extremely fortunate to have Don Staley continue as CEO of the tourism & sports compensation during this unmatched time,” stated expense Lloyd, the Tuscaloosa tourism & sports Commission’s chairman of the board of directors. “Don’s acceptance of the three-year contract extension shows his commitment to Tuscaloosa. This neighborhood might not hope for much better Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Ecuador leadership with the difficulties ahead.”

Staley originally assisted type the Tuscaloosa sports foundation in 2007, which ultimately joined the Tuscaloosa CVB to type its present organization. He was executive director of sports for the compensation from 2010–2014 before going to the Foley sports tourism Complex, then returned as president as well as CEO in Tuscalooa in 2017.

The 2015 sports ETA sports tourism executive of the Year, Staley has a broad variety of experience supervising athletics events as well as championships, assisting bring the very six High Camiseta Schalke 04 institution Football championships to Bryant Denny stadium in 2009 — an event that has alternated between Camiseta Watford FC Alabama as well as Auburn every year since.

Staley was named president as well as CEO in June 2017 after a three-year stint in fee of the close-by Foley sports tourism Complex. He previously started the Alabama soccer program in 1994 after a long stay as head men’s as well as women’s trainer at Radford university in Virginia, recording 324 wins in 23 years of coaching overall.

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