A sports complex earns field rental from each tournament it hosts, and watches the rest of the weekend's spending go to the town around it. Some of that spending the complex can share in.
Lines worth adding
- Parking by day or by weekend, sold with the tournament registration.
- Concessions run directly or by a vendor on a split.
- Team packages: field time, a meal and a meeting space for travelling clubs.
- Photo, video and streaming partners paying a share of what families buy.
- Lodging: every visiting family books a room or a house. The complex's own booking confirmation and events page can show them where to stay and earn on it.
Why the complex should own the lodging answer
Families ask the complex and the tournament director the same question: where should we stay? Each tournament answers it differently, if at all. A complex that offers one lodging page for every event it hosts builds a revenue line across its whole calendar, not only one weekend. With Bookend that is around 6–8% of each booking, with no block to guarantee and nothing to staff.
Working with tournament directors
The complex and the tournament director both want the weekend to go well and both field the same lodging questions. Offering directors the complex's lodging page for their event — with the revenue shared as the two of you agree — is simpler for everyone than each tournament building its own answer or signing its own block. Directors get an answer for their families without a hotel contract; the complex gets a revenue line that grows with every event on its calendar.
The event lodging revenue calculator shows what one weekend is worth; multiply by the number of travelling tournaments you host a year for the complex-wide figure.