Lincoln, US (TAN): A large number of people testified at a legislative hearing here last week with favouring more youth sports tourism in the Nebraska state, located in central USA.
Jeff LeDent of Millard United Sports, which youth football (baseball), softball and soccer leagues, was among those who testified, said a report in Omaha World Herald.
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LeDent said he had spent more than USD 15,000 last year travelling to his daughter’s soccer club tournaments, most of them outside Nebraska because the state did not have adequate infrastructure to host big tournaments. For this reason, he said, a state basketball tournament had to be played in the neighbouring Iowa.
The youth sports tourism industry in the US is worth an estimated USD 9 billion, the report said.
Omaha senator Brett Lindstrom, a former state football player, said his proposed bill could change the situation by providing the required tax revenue for renovation and construction of sports complexes across Nebraska.
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The Republican senator had last year pushed a similar bill unsuccessfully. A modified approach this time seems so far to be working in favour of the bill.
The legislature’s revenue committee, however, took no action on the bill at the end of the hearing last week, the report added.
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