Having a great time at the Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance’s (CSTA) Sports Events Congress (SEC) 2017, best known as “SEC17”.
Sport Events Congress
SEC17 – the 5Ws!
What is it? The largest annual gathering of everyone connected to the over $6 billion sport tourism industry in Canada.
Who attends? Event rights holders, community tourism professionals, event suppliers, event management firms, and elected officials.
Why should you attend? To present your destination to sport organizations seeking a host partner; to take in superb professional development presentations; to network with the brightest and best minds in the sport tourism industry; and to connect elected officials with other like-minded champions of sport tourism.
Where will it be held? The Westin Ottawa will host the event, with a special opportunity to experience the reinvigorated space of Lansdowne, home to professional sports franchises, host of many sport events, activities and featuring a plethora of dining establishments.
When will it take place? March 19-22, 2017
Ottawa will be the place to be for the sport tourism industry in March 2017!
Greg is the founder of the World Table Hockey Association (WTHA), Table Hockey Show, and leadership team of the Hockey Time Machine Show https://www.youtube.com/@HTM3000-Hockey
He also staged one of the largest table hockey tournaments in the last decade held in Buffalo, New York. It boasted 64 players, five tournaments on three different manufacturer's games (Stiga, SoHo Pro and Classic, and SuperChexx AKA "bubble hockey"), with a Friday night social with guest appearance by Don Luce, Buffalo Sabres alumnus, and Adam Page, three time ParaOlympic Sled Hockey Champion.
All of which was made possible by the Buffalo-Niagara Sports Commission; Buffalo RiverWorks (venue); Innovative Concepts in Entertainment (ICE) makers of SuperChexx; Len Mecca, Rod Warriors Table Hockey; Carlo Bossio, Canada Table Hockey; and John Fayolle, Owner of SoHo Tournament Table Hockey games.
Greg founded the WTHA to help revive a dying industry, as numerous manufacturers have gone out of business over the decades, to promote table hockey as a competitive sport, and bring together the hockey community, which includes and is not limited to promoting all table hockey manufacturers, artists, craftsmen, event operators, players, collectors, and more.
All of which contributed to defining the WTHA's mission to “educate, develop, preserve and promote table hockey."
