Recent decades have seen enormous increases in sponsorship
and a corresponding change in how events are perceived by sponsors.
There has been a shift by many large companies from seeing sponsorship
as primarily a public relations tool generating community goodwill, to
regarding it as an important part of the marketing mix.
Sponsors as partners in sport events:
It’s important for sport event managers to identify exactly what
sponsors want from a sport event and what the sport event can deliver for
them. The sponsors needs may be different from those of the host
organisation or the sport event manager.