News Summary

• Sports travel is booming, with one out of every six hotel room nights owed to sports-related travel.
• In 2025, fans spent $51.1 billion traveling to spectator sporting events, according to the Sports Events and Tourism Association.
• "No matter where you look in this country — whether it's college, pro, WNBA — everything is packed," Delta Air Lines' Joe Esposito said.
• "I don't think the splurge is necessarily people that are all really wealthy," Wendy Zajack, adjunct professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business said.