Tom Collins, an exuberant promoter who presented the star-studded Champions on Ice tours for almost 40 years, capitalizing in particular on a surging interest in figure skating in the 1980s, died on Sunday at his home in Edina, Minn. He was 88.

His son Mark said the cause was complications of a stroke.

Mr. Collins’s troupes, which included Olympic and world-class amateur and professional skaters like Michelle Kwan, Brian Boitano, Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan and Johnny Weir , toured the United States from 1969 to 2007. (Mr. Collins himself had been a headliner for an earlier ice spectacular, Holiday on Ice, in the 1950s.)

Being asked by him to join his show was considered a career coup, as well as a guarantee of a good paycheck.

“Your goals were to get a U.S. medal, a world medal, and to be in Champions on Ice,” Mr. Boitano said in a phone interview. “To get a job with him on tour meant you had made it.”