





Amateur tournament sports had become one of the largest and fastest-growing segments in travel, with sports generating more than $7.5 billion in annual economic impact across Florida. Seminole County wasn’t alone in recognizing the opportunity — competing counties throughout Central Florida were investing heavily in the same category of fields, venues, and multi-sport complexes, all chasing the same pool of tournament directors and rights holders, making quality facilities table stakes rather than a differentiator.
For Orlando North to convert its own infrastructure investment into a real sports tourism business, it needed more than a destination brand — it needed significant marketplace presence against better-known competitors, a steady flow of qualified sales leads, and content robust enough to showcase both specific facility amenities and the broader destination experience. Paradise built a marketing engine purpose-built to support Orlando North’s sports sales effort, not a general destination campaign that happened to mention sports.
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Paradise started where the sales team’s pipeline actually needed the most help, restructuring prospect targets, event types, and revenue thresholds so marketing effort could concentrate on the tournaments and sports categories with the strongest fit for Orlando North’s facility inventory. The insight that shaped everything downstream: tournament directors evaluate a destination on specific, comparable criteria — facility quality, proximity, hotel cost relative to Orlando’s resort rates, ease of access, and what teams and families can do off the field.
Paradise built and evolved Play Orlando North into a dedicated sports brand and content platform, developing “Our Complex. Your Team. Game On.” as its advertising and sales creative and relaunching the Play Orlando North website as a single, trackable conversion path. To move prospects from awareness to signed RFP, Paradise curated a sports sales tool kit — including a “Why Play in Orlando North?” leave-behind built around five defensible reasons — paired with email nurture campaigns, national public relations, organic social content, and sponsored conference activations at industry events like Connect Sports.






Lead generation goals for the year
Sports economic impact — +6.7% year-over-year growth
Sports visitors — exceeding the annual goal
Sports room nights — exceeding the annual goal
Sporting events hosted — exceeding the annual goal
Tourist Development Tax collections — highest in county history
Average Daily Rate (ADR) — highest in county history
Highest occupancy rate in county history
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