Squeezing in a few long weekends a year is often the closest
entrepreneurs get to a vacation. But can these miniholidays relieve
business stress? Yes, say the experts-especially if they are
fantasy vacations.
It's for that reason, perhaps, that entrepreneurs are
turning to sports weekends, says Steven Wilson, vice president of
Sports Tours Inc., a Hatfield, Massachusetts, company that books
spectator sporting event trips (including air fare, hotel, rental
car and great tickets to the game) for passionate sports fans with
no time to plan vacations themselves.
Ron Ferron, owner of Center Machine Inc., a 12-person Ludlow,
Massachusetts, company that makes machinery parts, is just such a
person. An avid fan of the University of Massachusetts basketball
team, Ferron would follow them just about anywhere-if he had the
time. Last December when the Minutemen were playing in the Hawaiian
Classic, Ferron called Sports Tours a week before the tournament,
asking if they could book a trip for him and his wife to Hawaii and
get them tickets for the team's three games. "They took
care of everything in a couple of days," says Ferron.
Content Continues Below
While people are now interested in baseball road trips to watch
the boys of summer do their stuff at some of the nation's
greatest ballparks, Wilson says, attention will soon shift to
professional and college football weekends and the January 27 Super
Bowl in New Orleans. For more information, call Sports Tours at
(800) 722-7701.
Page 1 |
2 |
3 