HotelPlanner Partners with UTR Sports as Official Affiliate Partner
25 Abril 2024 - 8:00AM
HotelPlanner Partners with UTR Sports as Official Affiliate
Partner
HotelPlanner, a leading travel technology platform and hotel
booking engine, today announced a new relationship as a travel
partner with UTR Sports, a leading organization focused on
digitally connecting and expanding the sports of tennis and
pickleball with accurate global ratings, innovative events, and a
global community centered around level-based play.
UTR Sports are the creators behind the gold-standard UTR Rating,
a global tennis rating that assesses every player’s skill level on
the same scale from 1.00-16.50 based on match results, ensuring
accuracy and consistency. Building on over a decade of expertise,
UTR Sports introduced the UTR Pickleball Rating (UTR-P) in 2023,
catering to players of all skill levels, from beginners to
professionals, and partnering with the Association of Pickleball
Players (APP).
Additionally, as the owner and governing body of the UTR Pro
Tennis Tour (PTT), UTR Sports collaborates with federations and
organizers to bring professional tournaments to nearly 30 countries
across the globe. Given the challenges faced by aspiring players
due to fewer events and reduced prize money, the PTT is a
developmental tour that offers guaranteed prize money and multiple
matches at each $25K event to support aspiring professional players
and promote the growth of the sport.
All UTR Sports Power subscribers can click here to book
accommodations at a lower rate.
"The continued growth of tennis, coupled with the meteoric rise
of pickleball, presents countless opportunities for players to come
together for fun, high-quality competition in cities around the
world," says Mark Leschly, UTR Sports President and
CEO. "Our community travels far and wide in their pursuit
of these sports, so we are excited to provide HotelPlanner as a
solution to help players with their accommodation needs."
"As a devoted tennis player since childhood, it is a huge honor
to join forces with UTR Sports and bring this sport to even more
players worldwide," says Tim Hentschel, Co-founder and
CEO of HotelPlanner. "We are also incredibly excited to
play a role in the expansion and development of pickleball, a sport
captivating millions at breakneck speed. To the entire UTR Sports
community, welcome to HotelPlanner."
About UTR Sports
The mission of UTR Sports, formerly Universal Tennis, is to
connect and grow the sports of tennis and pickleball with accurate
global ratings, innovative events, and a global community centered
around level-based play. The UTR Sports Platform is anchored by our
patented ratings technology. UTR Sports provides the technology
tools and solutions relevant and valuable to players, coaches, and
organizers. UTR Sports is creating opportunities and pathways,
including the UTR Pro Tennis Tour, for players from all over the
world, in all stages of life, to find better matches and unlock a
more fun, affordable, and flexible experience.
About the UTR Pro Tennis Tour (PTT)
The UTR Pro Tennis Tour officially began on January 1, 2021 to
support tennis globally with prize money, venue support,
technology, logistics, and competitive play opportunities.
Universal Tennis, LLC is the owner and organizing body of the UTR
Pro Tennis Tour (PTT), with responsibility for its Rules and
Regulations, Code of Conduct, Tournament Format, and related
streaming and commercial rights. The UTR Pro Tennis Tour was
started to create a development tour. With fewer events and
substantially reduced prize money, aspiring professional players
are increasingly struggling in the pursuit of their dreams. Working
with host venues and national Federations, PTT provides additive
and complementary opportunities to help emerging players and the
broader tennis community.
About HotelPlanner
HotelPlanner is a leading travel technology company and hotel
booking platform that combines proprietary artificial intelligence,
and a 24/7 global gig-based reservations and customer service
network. HotelPlanner is one of the world’s leading providers of
individual, group and corporate travel bookings. Founded in 2003,
HotelPlanner has enduring partnerships with the world’s largest
online travel agencies, well-known global hotel chains, individual
hotels, online wedding providers, ancillary lodging providers,
corporations, sporting organizations from youth to professional,
universities, and government agencies. HotelPlanner’s family of
brands includes its flagship site HotelPlanner.com, its meetings
& events-focused sites Meetings.com; EventConnect.com; and
VenueExplorer.com; Lucid Travel, which focuses on sports team
travel; Eventsquid, which focuses on corporate and association
event registration; and Cleverdis, a mainstay in trade show media.
Learn more at https://www.hotelplanner.com
Media Contacts
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