Brendan Fox is the Managing Director of Destination Sport Experiences-Marathon Tours & Travel, Sportive Breaks and Tri Travel.

Destination Sport Experiences caters for those who want to participate in the very best cycling, running and triathlon events across the globe.   They offer tours, travel packages, VIP access and spectating, and guaranteed entry to marathons like TCS New York City Marathon, BMW Berlin Marathon to Schneider Electric Paris Marathon. In addition, they offer experiences at world famous cycling events and courses (Etape de Tour) and long distance triathlons worldwide including Challenge Roth. They also offer VIP hospitality and spectator access to many of the top professional cycling events including Le Tour De France. Destination Sport Experiences is partners with many of the Abbott World Marathon Majors and works closely with major sports events organizers around the globe.

They are part of one of the UK’s largest travel organizations Portman Travel Group. The Destination Sport Experiences team are also avid, passionate runners, cyclists and triathletes, so they understand the needs of everyday athletes!

During our conversation

• We talk about the origins of Destination Sport Experiences and how the company began. He shares the many benefits of traveling and racing with them from race recon, on course nutrition, and hydration, race day transportation in all of their VIP packages and how they take athletes beyond the race experience and immerse them in the culture, restaurants, exploring and sightseeing of every destination.
• We discuss race travel, time difference, acclimating and how early to arrive and I get some logistics insight on Paris Marathon
• We talk about the companies iconic, world renowned Seven Continents Club™ and the once in a lifetime opportunities they offer runners to race in destinations across the seven continents, you can do one or do them all.
• We chat about on the importance and economic development associated with tourism and race travel and the helpful impact it has economically in these local communities and destinations.
• Brendan shares his journey into the travel and tourism business, his fave travel spot, his passion for cycling, his recent training camp/trip to Tenerife and the upcoming 2024 Etape de Tour starting in Nice and up into the mountains.

We didn’t chat about this but for 2024, Destination Sport Experiences launched training camps at seven top sports resorts around the globe, perfect for family holiday, group trip for a running, cycling, tri club, or solo adventure. Taking place at world-class sports resorts in Mallorca, Sardinia, Slovakia, Tenerife, Thailand and Turkey have been hand-picked by the team, as offering the very best facilities for the active holiday. And for runners, there is the England Athletics Spring Training Camp, set on the Portuguese coast, hosted by top coaches from England Athletics. Athletes can either put together their own training schedules or Destination Sport Experiences will create a bespoke long weekend or week-long program that can include coaching, guided rides and runs and other sports depending on the resort.

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