Tempe, AZ – The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (“ITA”) is proud to announce today a partnership with HotelPlanner. This leading online service helps groups find hotels and book at low rates with ease and efficiency. With this partnership, HotelPlanner will be a “Preferred Hotel Partner of the ITA”.
Already well established in the collegiate landscape, as well as the tennis ecosystem, HotelPlanner has already helped over 500 universities negotiate group travel and is the title sponsor of the HotelPlanner Tour Tennis, a tennis tour that hands out over five million dollars to players across hundreds of tournaments.
“Travel is one of the most significant logistical and financial considerations for college tennis programs, and we are always looking for ways to better support our coaches, student-athletes, and institutions,” said David Mullins, CEO of the ITA “By helping simplify the hotel booking process for our coaches and teams, this partnership will allow programs to focus more of their time and energy on competition and the student-athlete experience. We are excited to work together to enhance travel opportunities for college tennis programs nationwide.”
Looking to provide their expertise to college tennis programs across the country, HotelPlanner will aim to take the headache out of group travel, offering coaches a streamlined solution when it comes to hotel booking.
Additionally, at several of the biggest ITA Championships across the college tennis season, HotelPlanner will work alongside the ITA to offer teams exclusive hotel booking links through HotelPlanner to ensure teams make the most of their travels.
“We are delighted to work with the ITA.” says Tim Hentschel, Co CEO, Hotelplanner. “Together we will enable young tennis players to excel in this wonderful sport.”
To learn more about HotelPlanner, you can visit hotelplanner.com or check them out on social media across Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
About HotelPlanner: HotelPlanner is a leading travel technology company, hotel reservation platform, and AI ecommerce technology 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 reservations. Founded in 2003, HotelPlanner has enduring partnerships with the world’s largest online travel agencies, global hotel chains, corporations, sports organizations, universities, and government agencies. HotelPlanner’s family of brands includes HotelPlanner, TicketPlanner, and Flyus.
About the ITA: The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) is the governing body and coaches association of college tennis, both an advocate and an authority for the sport and its members. Comprised of 1,260 colleges and universities, 20,000 student-athletes, 1,800 varsity programs, 3,000 coaches, and 1,350 college tennis officials, the ITA empowers college tennis coaches at all levels to deliver vibrant tennis programs that are vital to their college communities and transformational to their student-athletes. Follow college tennis on the ITA website and ITA social channels on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.
