ITTF WORKING GROUP CONCLUDES MEETING ON STRUCTURE OF MAJOR EVENTS

The two day meeting held in Singapore was facilitated by Deloitte’s Sports Business Group, which is assisting the working group to analyse the ITTF’s current event structure and make recommendations on how to improve the ITTF’s major events to achieve key goals.

At the conclusion of the meeting, the leader of the group, ITTF Vice President SHI Zhihao stated: “The past two days we had extremely fruitful discussions with my ITTF colleagues with the help of Deloitte. We are on the way on solving the issues of our major events and make the changes to grow all our events.”

The ITTF major events working group, led my Mr. SHI is made up of the six Continental Presidents, ITTF Athletes Commission representative, ITTF Deputy CEO, ITTF Competitions Direction and the ITTF Marketing Director.

The major events working group will have to come up with a proposal to the ITTF Executive Committee by the end of this year on the concept and direction the ITTF wishes to take. The next meeting of the major events working group will take place during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Over the last 20 years Deloitte has developed a unique focus on the business of sport.

“Our specialist Sports Business Group offers a multi-disciplined expert service with dedicated people and skills capable of adding significant value to the business of sport”.