6th December, Lausanne: The city of Henderson near Las Vegas has been selected to host the World Bowling Championships in 2013 at a decision taken by the Executive Board of WTBA during their meetings in Lausanne in December 1-3.

Henderson, Las Vegas, was selected following the exciting bidding process facilitated by TSE Consulting launched in April 2010. The new host city was selected by WTBA due to its innovation on how it will enhance the scope, presentation and marketing of the World Championships and the sport of bowling.

Henderson's bid boasted top facilities with state of the art technology, including a 77,000 square foot bowling centre with 72 lanes, 36" colour monitors at every lane and a 42" plasma television between each pair of lanes.

And with eight 16 foot projection screens, fans and media will be able to experience bowling in a whole new way.

WTBA President, Mr. Kevin Dornberger, said, "I congratulate the City of Henderson whose bid shows that they have both the vision and capacity to organise a fantastic event in 2013 and raise the World Bowling Championships to new standards. This for us is an important step towards our continual development as a global sport and our drive towards Olympic inclusion."

The combined Men-Women World Bowling Championships are held once every four years and is the most prestigious international event in bowling, where the best bowlers from around the world compete over a two week period.

Photos courtesy of the City of Las Vegas.

31st October, Hong Kong: The World Tenpin Bowling Association has narrowed the bid race for the hosting of the World Championships 2013 down to three cities in which Abu Dhabi, UAE is competing with Munich, Germany and Henderson, Las Vegas.

The three cities will be subject to inspection visits by World Tenpin Bowling Association and the decision on which city will host the combined men and women World Championships in 2013 will be made at the WTBA Presidium Meeting in Lausanne on December 2, 2010.

The WTBA took the initiative to modernize the World Championship bidding process to make it more attractive for host cities, athletes and spectators. The WTBA wants to ensure that the championships will continue to play a key role in long-term strategy of becoming an Olympic sport.

Their efforts have helped make tenpin bowling more popular and have also developed the strong bonding between the sport and the host city. Through this innovative bidding process, WTBA will select the host city based on the most visionary proposal.

"We are thrilled to see that our effort to continually raise the standards of our World Championships, while making it accessible to our worldwide membership, have generated such enthusiastic response from around the world," said WTBA President, Kevin Dornberger.

"This year, we've a strong field of candidate cities which is vital for bowling's continual development as a global sport and its drive for Olympic inclusion," added the former Executive Director of USBC.

"Having 2.8 million registered bowlers spread across 113 member federations and a further extimated 175 million recreational bowlers around the world, it is not surprising that WTBA's reformatted World Championships in 2013 has been received with such enthusiasm.

Photos courtesy of the City of Abu Dhabi.