Articles tagged “football”

After years of strict lockdowns, Australia has a run of international sporting events which will support the nation's tourism return.

Digital ticketing solutions for tours and attractions are seeing sports events emerge as a winning category for customer engagement as travelers continue to plan around bucket-list events.

Tourists came, they spent, they left. Now, Istanbul's goal is that they come back and tell their friends.

The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 starts in five days, and Qatar is struggling to have enough lodging to house an expected 1.2 million football fans.

Qatar will allow visitors without football World Cup tickets to enter the country from December 2 after the group stage matches end.

Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at David Beckham playing for Qatar, hotel exec’s optimism, and tourism “quality” over quantity.

As the countdown begins to the Middle East’s very first Federation Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) World Cup, host country Qatar now has British soccer star David Beckham promoting the…

The world’s best professional sports tournament has returned and travel brands hope their association with champions will turn into bookings and visits.

Expect other hotel brands to watch the Graduate Hotels' experiment. Professionally managing vacation rentals may be a path for hotels to expand their reach while minimizing some risks.

As it prepares to host Middle East's first-ever FIFA World Cup, Qatar expects the event to offer unique marketing potential to place the destination firmly on the tourism map. But for a country whose pre-Covid arrivals stood at 2.1 million in 2019, a goal of 1.5 million tourists for the two months of the tournament sounds overly ambitious.