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Sports platform BookMySports announces launch of website

Launched by Harbhajan Singh, the platform will assist users and corporate firms to book sports facilities or create their own sports tournaments online within a matter of minutes

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Sports platform BookMySports announces launch of website

Sports platform BookMySports announces launch of website

Launched by Harbhajan Singh, the platform will assist users and corporate firms to book sports facilities or create their own sports tournaments online within a matter of minutes

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | December 8, 2015

Sameer-Thapa-(CEO),-Akanksha-(Deputy-CEO),-Harbhajjan-SIngh-(L-R) (L-R) Sameer Thapa (CEO), Akanksha (Deputy-CEO), & HarbhajjanSIngh

BookMySports, the online sports booking platform announced the launch of its website and conducted a product demonstration with popular Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh.Users and corporate firms can now book sports facilities or create their own sports tournaments online within a matter of minutes.

Present at the launch, Akanksha Saxena, Co-founder & Deputy CEO, BMS, spoke about the value that BookMySports creates for both sports lovers and sports facility owners. “We are aiming at increasing the capacity utilization of sports facilities across cities by connecting the sports lovers to them through our online platform. The idea came up through my personal experience and was created as a solution to our own problems with finding spaces to play”. She further added that BookMySports has products tapping the entire value chain spanning across the sports ecosystem.  According to an independent report, the size of the global sports industry is estimated between USD 480bn to USD 620bn, growing at a CAGR of 3.5%.

Sameer Thapa, Co-founder & CEO highlighted an opportunity in BookMySports to perfectly synchronise a financially viable enterprise with a socially relevant need to pursue sports and fitness across demographics. He stressed that the online platform that engages with all the stakeholders of the sports ecosystem through its comprehensive product interventions, thereby, enhancing commercial scope and viability of the business in addition to improving their good will.

BookMySports will enable the industry to derive benefits from better management of demand and supply, introducing operational efficiencies and benchmarking transparency in the pricing and service delivery for users. The growing interest in sports combined with a technology enabled platform and ease of access will further enhance the market size.

The platform covers major sports such as football, aerobics, swimming, volleyball, cricket, tennis, basketball, rifle shooting and many more. It provides relevant information on the sports infrastructure to benchmark the expectations that users must have and help in price discovery. In the process, users do not have to depend on hearsay when looking to book facilities to play sports. Parents too need not physically scout for sports academies to enrol their children. The map view on the website further enables in discovering facilities and academies in nearby locations.

Harbhajan Singh who inaugurated the product was quite excited to be associated with a sports dedicated start-up, focused at promoting a culture of sports and fitness. “While I was growing up I had immense love not just for cricket but every kind of sport, however, we have persistently witnessed a lack of access to sports grounds and other facilities. An online solution to this problem was unimaginable till now,” commented Singh.

He also spoke about the relevance of the product in metro cities where people especially the youth do not seem to find the time, space or like-minded communities to actively pursue sports and fitness activities. The start-up has associated with multiple sports academies in Delhi-NCR and just started operations in Bangalore. As per our internal sources, they have plans to expand operations across 6 cities in India and globally by March 2016.

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