SportsEngine and HotelPlanner Combine on Hotel Reservation Service

SportsEngine has announced a new, white-label service for reserving hotel room blocks for tournaments and events, working with HotelPlanner on the project as its official travel partner.

The multiyear agreement will integrate HotelPlanner’s hotel booking technology into SportsEngine’s platform to create a new room-block feature. The feature will also be available to customer organizations using the SportsEngine Play streaming service. Under the deal, SportsEngine customer organizations will be able to create branded booking engines to provide direct bookings and group hotel requests from their member families.

“We are thrilled to partner with SportsEngine,” said Tim Hentschel, co-CEO of HotelPlanner. “This collaboration will streamline hotel marketing for event organizers and deliver an exceptional experience with unmatched pricing and options for teams.”

SportsEngine technology serves small and medium-sized youth sports organizations, tournaments, the NGB community, professional sports leagues and over 1,000 municipalities with its technology aimed at reducing the time they spend on administration and communication.

“Travel is an integral part of today’s youth sports and events, and we’re excited to partner with HotelPlanner to simplify travel for our SportsEngine customers,” said Dan Burquist, senior vice president of SportsEngine. “Our collaboration will help provide families and teams with an affordable, streamlined, seamless booking experience that will help set them up for success.”