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Sport tourism

Sport business & investment

Kingston is a historic sport hosting city ready to build on its legacy and be a hub for sport innovation and investment.

The Tourism Kingston team is here to support you in creating a successful event. The team can provide:

  • Accommodation and meeting spaces RFPs to fit your event needs
  • Site visit planning
  • Service requests and connection to attractions, facilities, transportation, and activities
  • Dining options
  • A welcome/information booth during your event registration
  • A dedicated conference microsite on visitkingston.com
  • Recommendations for speakers, musicians, activity leaders, and tours

Sport business event hosting

Consider hosting your next sport business conference, board meeting, AGM, or coach training event in the Limestone City. Kingston is ready to welcome your group with unique venue spaces to meet and host key stakeholders including:

Excellent dining and live entertainment

A coordinated Visit Kingston sport and business events team to support your event hosting needs and to provide a wrap-around, welcoming experience

Smith School of Business – Game Plan

Smith School of Business at Queen’s University is Canada’s premier business school and is consistently ranked among the best in the world. Smith in Kingston is the exclusive business education partner of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and a founding partner of Game Plan, Canada’s total athlete wellness program, helping athletes plan for success beyond sport.  

The school has been a pioneer in the areas of team-based and experiential learning and offers a suite of MBA and specialized master’s programs. Smith’s mission is to provide awards, workshops and networking opportunities to assist Canada’s athletes as they plan for and transition into their post-athletic careers.  

Kingston is proud to be the home for these groundbreaking programs, incubating the most innovative concepts and preparing our nation’s best athletes to transition into the business community and the next chapter of their careers.  

For more information, visit https://smith.queensu.ca/coc-gameplan/ 

Invest in the future of sport

Kingston is centrally positioned in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montréal corridor and part of the world famous Thousand Islands. More than 14.5 million Canadians – or a third of the country’s population – live within a three-hour drive of Kingston and thousands of US residents live just across the border.  

This geographic proximity combined with Kingston’s history and heritage, lakeside location, lively arts and culture scene, several anchor tourism attractions, and 40+ accommodation properties, sees tourism contribute substantially to the city’s economy.  

Hospitality and accommodation jobs represent 9% of Kingston’s workforce and no other consensus metropolitan area attracts more domestic tourism than Kingston, relative to population size.  

Learn more about the potential of tourism in Kingston.

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