Improving communities through sport

Luxury Features to Add to Your Recreation Center

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Luxury Facilities in Recreation Centers In addition to exercise, a recreation center can be a place to unwind and relax. In contemporary sports facility design, adding luxury features is increasingly popular. With features like saunas, hot tubs, and massage services, contemporary recreation centers combine a gym atmosphere with spa-like elements. If you are looking to […]

Sports Facilities Management: How to Run a Successful Sports Camp

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Sports Facilities Management on Running a Sports Camp At Sports Facilities Management, we know that youth sports camps are a great way for kids to exercise, learn a new sport, and make some new friends. For recreation centers, sports camps are a great way to introduce newcomers to your facility. Pulling off a successful youth […]

Healthier Options for Your Recreation Center Concessions

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Ways to Run a Healthier Concession Stand at Your Recreation Center Concession stands are a great way to earn some extra revenue at your recreation center. Unfortunately, most food offered at concession stands, such as hot dogs, popcorn, candy, and soda, provide little nutritional value. For young athletes looking for a quick meal after their […]

Ways to Utilize Virtual Reality at Your Sports Facility

Virtual Reality at a Sports Facility

Implementing Virtual Reality into Your Sports Facility When most people hear “virtual reality,” they most likely think of video games, but this relatively new technology is starting to have some real-world, practical applications. In fact, sports training is one of the industries leading the way in virtual reality, finding unique ways to utilize simulations to […]

How Sports Tourism Benefits Communities

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Learn more with our free Elizabethtown Case Study Download Long-term Impacts of Sports Tourism Sports tourism involves traveling to a different city to participate in or watch a sporting event. Whether the event is the world cup, a city-wide marathon, or a small town football game, sports tourism can have huge effects on a community. […]

Hosting Tournaments at Your Sports Facility

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How to Host a Tournament at Your Sports Facility Hosting a tournament is a great way to increase revenue and attract newcomers to your sports facility. Regardless of the sport or the age group, tournaments give athletes a chance to take on new competition and form relationships with people from other communities. Unfortunately, a tournament […]

Facility Management: Hiring Personal Trainers

Facility Management Trainers

Facility Management Advice: Choosing Good Personal Trainers Hiring the right staff is essential to the success of your recreation center. Everyone needs to play their part and be an enthusiastic member of the team. This is especially the case when it comes to personal trainers. Hiring personal trainers for your recreation center can add a […]

Creating Extra Revenue for a College Recreation Center

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Bring in More Revenue to Your College Recreation Center A college recreation center can have fairly significant upfront costs, but ideally, it will eventually give you a significant return on investment. A state of the art recreation center attracts new students to enroll and costs can be offset by student fees. But there are ways […]

Classes to Offer for Different Age Groups in Your Recreation Center

Recreation Center Age Groups

Recreation Center Classes by Age Group If you choose to market your recreation center as a place where the whole family can have fun and exercise, you should consider offering fitness classes that appeal to a variety of age groups. This will maximize the demographics that your recreation center will attract, and it will increase […]

Sports Complex Design: Offering Indoor Soccer, Outdoor Soccer, or Futsal

Sports Complex Design Soccer

Choosing Between Indoor Soccer, Outdoor Soccer, and Futsal at Your Sports Complex If you plan on offering soccer at your sports complex, there are several considerations you need to make. Do you plan on offering indoor soccer, outdoor soccer, futsal, or multiple options? These are questions you should be asking at the facility planning stage. […]

Post-Workout Amenities to Offer at Your Sports Complex

Sports Complex Post-Workout

Sports Complex Amenities: Recovery and Post-Workout After a hard workout, people want to recover and relax. Adding some post-workout and recovery amenities to your sports complex can greatly increase guest satisfaction. It also is a way you can drive revenue. More amenities mean guests will be ok with paying more for membership dues. It also […]

Facility Planning: Designing Locker Rooms

Facility Planning Lockers

Facility Planning for Your Locker Rooms A successful recreation center doesn’t skimp on the details. You can tell that professional facility planning has gone into a recreation center when every aspect of the facility is accounted for. Locker rooms are an area that are sometimes neglected in the facility planning and design process. But locker […]

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