Qatar to Host Congress of World Association of Sport Management 2022

Doha, July 25 (QNA) - Qatar will become the first country in the Middle East and North Africa to host the Congress of World Association of Sport Management (WASM) after successfully winning the right to host the event in March 2022. The bidding was a joint effort between Qatar University and Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), member of Qatar Foundation. A statement released from Qatar University today said that hosting the event will be another milestone for Qatar in preparation for hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The statement said that the Congress will be an opportunity to promote education, research and publications in the multi-disciplinary area of sport management in Qatar and in the region, including sport governance, sport policy and strategy, sport marketing, sport and event management, to name but a few. President of Qatar University Dr Hassan Rashid Al-Dirham said that " WASM Congress represents an important opportunity to bring together scholars and specialists of sport management and business of sport in Doha the capital of Qatar, the capital of sport, a few months before the 2022 FIFA World Cup. For Qatar University, it is an occasion to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge with the participation of local and international experts and to showcase Qatar universitys contribution in research and development around the planning and management of mega sport event." The World Association for Sport Management (WASM) which was formally established and operational on April 27, 2012 at Aletheia University in Taiwan, is an alliance of regional associations of sport management including: the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) established in 1985, followed by the European Association for Sport Management (EASM) in 1993, the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) in 1995, the Asian Association for Sport Management (AASM) in 2002, The Association Latino Americana de Gerencia Deportiva (ALGEDE) in 2009, and African Sport Management Association (ASMA) in 2010. President, World Association for Sport Management Dr. Karen Danylchuk also commented, "the World Association for Sport Management (WASM) is delighted that Qatar University and Hamad Bin Khalifa University have accepted our offer to serve as co-hosts of the Fourth WASM conference in March 2022 in Doha, Qatar. This is the first time that the WASM Conference, held every two to three years since its inception in 2012, has been held in the Middle East. Our previous three conferences in Madrid, Spain (2014), Kaunas, Lithuania (2017), and Santiago, Chile (2019) attracted leading sport management academicians, students, and industry leaders from over 40 countries and we are confident that the conference in Doha will prove to be another outstanding success. We look forward to working with the local organizers over the next two years in serving our mission to facilitate sport management research and teaching and learning excellence worldwide." (QNA)