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Source: Australian Tennis Magazine FEBRUARY 2012 Boasting numerous accolades including BRW Fastest Growing Private Business in 2010 (turnover less than $100M), Sportsnet Corporation has built a reputation as an industry leader in sports travel. Sportsnet’s CEO & Founder, Rob Cecconi, … Continue reading

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Ex-Bomber Jason Johnson humbled by Gallipoli trek

Source: Herald Sun – Tuesday 26 April, 2011 JASON Johnson played in six Anzac Day games. He had been to dawn services, read books on war and listened to speeches from Diggers, so he thought he understood what the day … Continue reading

Rob Cecconi on Talking Business

Qantas’ “Talking Business Programme” discusses the most up-to-date, releavnt business topics of the day. Listen to Rob Cecconi from Sportsnet as he talks about the current economic climate within the travel industry. Rob Cecconi

Sports Event Tourism

Honor the ANZACS

Sports Event Tourism

There’s no doubt that an increasing number of us are travelling for sports events. Consider this; at the 2010 BRW ANZ Private Business Awards, Sportsnet Holidays was deemed the Fastest Growing Private Business of the Year (turnover under $100 million) … Continue reading

Tennis Back in Business

Sales of travel packages for interstate visitors have also been strong, boosting optimism that the tournament’s total attendance could break last year’s record of 653,860. Daniel Cecconi, general manager of Sportsnet Holidays, says the Open is his company’s biggest selling sporting event every … Continue reading

Meet Sportsnet Holidays, 2010 Anthill Cool Company Award Finalist (Global Growth Award Category)

In 1998, Australian entrepreneur Rob Cecconi heard some friends were having a tough time getting tickets to the Daytona 500 NASCAR race in the U.S. Cecconi poked around and learned Australia had few travel agencies that booked trips to sports … Continue reading

From little travel acorns, mighty travel oaks grow!

I think it is great to see what were at the outset were small Aussie businesses experience exponential growth and win top awards, not just in travel, but in the big wide world of business, competing against all other business … Continue reading