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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a soccer parent so please bear with me as I ask questions.  What does the tournament organizer get out of having people book hotel rooms?  The more rooms booked don't offset field rental costs since those are 2 separate companies.  I don't understand it.[/quote]

The issue I am having is not in the "booking" of the rooms.  It's the requirement to go through the specified travel agency.  So the travel agency is charging a higher rate than you can get directly through the hotel.  There is either a kick-back scheme going on or the tournament organizers also own the travel agency. [/quote]

Yes. There is an incentive back to the organizer, and more often back to the local community. These fields are all largely built with tax payer money, and the local or regional economic development office and the regional sports promotion NGO have a lot of work in making these successful - so standardizing the travel is one way the community can measure the economic impact of the investment they made, as well as continue to sell the community to other organizers, businesses, sponsors, etc.

It sucks for sure, and is more expensive. But if it is just the best way control the controllable for the community AND the visitor experience.[/quote]

I don’t believe that, would local community prefer not to have tournaments? It is helping them whether we use the travel agent or not. The travel agent does nothing other thank making it frustrating for attendees.[/quote]

Believe whatever you want to believe.

Not a single travel tournament is hosted without local government or sports body’s involvement.[/quote]

Yes…helping them by not having the right amount of police, EMS resources available? Helping them by straining other public works? Helping them by having people book rooms at the local roach motel because it looked nice online, and then leaving the community swearing to never come back?

Travel tournaments are also ways to feature the community and bring outside dollars. 
It isn’t just some random club that decides to host it, and it’s a multi-year success because it just gets listed on USA Tournaments. There is a lot of work outside the club that has to be coordinated. And “Jessica who handles trophies and social media” isn’t equipped to pull it off by herself.[/quote]

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