{"id":274957,"date":"2026-05-18T10:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274957\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:28:28","slug":"best-sports-business-cities-no-40-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274957\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sports Business Cities: No. 40 Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Intersport acquired 80% of the APP Tour in 2022.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/KJRHOM44AREDTB2ZXS7ONUVW6A.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"525\"\/>The Fort hosts the Humana APP Fort Lauderdale Open each spring. Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The city\u2019s calendar includes several Stadium Managers Association annual seminars, June\u2019s SBC Summit Americas for 10,000 sports betting and gaming executives and last weekend\u2019s World Aquatics High Diving World Cup at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center, which just completed a $47 million renovation.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Rankings<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-miami\/\">#12<\/a> (with Miami)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2024 Event Hosting: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/03\/18\/bsbc-fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/03\/18\/bsbc-fort-lauderdale\/\">Ones to Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2025 Soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/26\/best-sports-business-cities-soccer-no-4-miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/26\/best-sports-business-cities-soccer-no-4-miami\/\">#4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort hosts the Humana APP Fort Lauderdale Open each spring. Getty Images The city\u2019s calendar includes several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[117402,60896,249,251,250,117401],"class_list":["post-274957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-best-sports-business-cities","tag-data-and-insights","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}