FIRST TIME ATTENDEE BREAKFAST & ORIENTATION
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 
7:45am - 9:15am
 
At this session, we will introduce the Mentoring Committee and provide you with advice on how to maximize your Symposium experience.  You will also have an opportunity to ask questions as well as meet other first time attendees and new members. 

Below is a short guide created by the NASC Member Mentoring Committee to aid those attending the NASC Sports Event Symposium for the first time.  Click here to download the guide.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Convention & Visitors Bureau – A resource for sports event planners bringing events to their community. Provides services including but not limited to hotel & restaurant information, calendar of events, visitor guides, housing, attraction & shopping information.

Economic Development - Occurs at the state, regional, or municipal level, or in public-private partnerships organizations that may be partially funded by local, regional, state, or federal tax money. These organizations seek out new economic generating opportunities while working to retain their existing business wealth.

Economic Impact - Net change in an economy caused by activity involving the acquisition, operation, development, and use of sport facilities and services. Please see attaché sheet for my suggestions.

Event Management - Process by which an event is planned, prepared and produced. Encompasses the assessment, definition, acquisition, allocation, direction, control and analysis of time, finances, people, products, services and other resources to achieve objectives.

Event Manager - Responsible for overseeing and arranging every aspect of an event, including researching, planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating an event's design, activities and production.

Event Owner - Youth, multi-sport, national governing bodies, grassroots programs and any other organization that own events that are bid out and/or awarded.

Facility Guide – Document or online listing of sports facilities in the local area that can be utilized for hosting sporting events. Should include details of facilities including seating capacity, floor dimensions, lighting available, air/heating system, etc.

Grassroot Event – Low cost sports competition created by host organization in order to attract visitors into their community.

"Heads in Beds" – Occupying hotel rooms with guests.

Host Organization - Sports commissions, convention and visitors bureau, park and recreation departments, venues and any other organization who host sporting events.

Local Organizing Committee (LOC) – Group of individuals in the community who form an ad-hoc committee to manage the procurement and running of sports events.

National Association of Sports Commissions (NASC) - The producers of the NASC Sports Event Symposium and is also the sports event industry's leading networking, education and professional development association.

National Governing Body (NGB) - Any sport organization responsible for rules and regulations of one or several sport activities. Usually membership based and comprised of athletes, coaches, officials and a national staff dedicated to the promotion and growth of the sport through city, state, region or national level participation.

National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) - A voluntary organization through which the nation's colleges and universities govern their athletics programs. It is comprised of institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals committed to the best interests, education and athletics participation of student-athletes.

Request for Proposal (RFP) – A document that outlines the requirements to host a sporting event. Should include, at a minimum, requirements for the following: hotel rooms, bid fee, facility/fields, estimated # of participants, complimentary services, etc.

Sports Commission – Organization created to support the creation and hosting of amateur sporting events in their community. May be born out of a chamber of commerce, convention and visitors bureau or be a department within a bureau.

Sports Event Travel Industry – Niche of the tourism industry that uses the hosting of sporting events to attract visitors to communities in order to drive economic impact.

"Stay to Play" – Rule used by some events which requires participants to utilize certain hotels in order to be eligible to participate in competition.

Supplier - Hotels, sports publications, insurance companies, consulting and research firms, housing services and any other company that supplies products and services to the sports event industry.

United States Olympic Committee (USOC) - Non-profit organization recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the sole entity in the United States whose mission involves training, entering and underwriting the full expenses for the U.S. teams in the Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American and Parapan American Games. The USOC oversees the process by which U.S. cities seek to be selected as a Candidate City to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, winter or summer, or the Pan American Games. In addition, the USOC approves the U.S. trial sites for the Olympic, Paralympic and Pan American Games team selections.