Groupize Launches New Sports Travel Management Platform at the TEAMS 2017 Conference

"Sport tourism is the sleeping giant of the tourism market," explains Charles de Gaspe Beaubien, CEO of Groupize.  "Over the last 6 years, we've developed an extensive, yet easy to use platform that brings efficiencies to all the moving parts of group travel and events.  Our focus on simplicity allows our partners to extend our platform to a whole new market estimated at $9B per year and growing at 20 percent."

Groupize licenses the platform to Agencies, Sport Facilities, CVBs & Apps that serve Universities, Professional Teams, Youth Sports, eSports and Tournament Organizers. Solely focus on travel, as well as the sourcing, booking, management and logistics around hotels, the latest Groupize Sports solution starts where other registration and tournament apps end, partnering with systems to be the travel management extension.

Groupize Sports is the only end to end platform that automates the entire lifecycle of Sports Travel:

• Ebids for negotiating best rates at hotels for blocks
• Create your own event and tournament booking sites
• Real time availability & pricing
• Instant booking of hotel rooms and Instant Blocks©
• Group block management and housing
• Registrations, tickets & payments
• Air management
• Travel agency & Concur integration
• Commissions and rebates tracking
• Ground transportation in partnership with GroundCharters.com

The Groupize platform manages every aspect of a university or organizations sports travel needs, including team travel, recruiting trips, business travel, fan travel and staff travel for every event.  The platform provides the most comprehensive travel management solution for teams, coaches, athletic directors, staff and their travel agencies.

"We can now fully service all the divisions of the Universities we work with at a cost-effective manner," says Christy Prescott, CEO of CTP Travel Services.  "We can combine our services, Concur and the Groupize tools for Athletic travel, University Business Travel, Athletic Events Travel and Fan Travel."

Attendees of TEAMS '17 are invited to visit the Groupize booth to get a live demo of the sports and events platform.

About Groupize Sports

Groupize Sports is a division of Groupize.  Founded in 2011, Groupize develops innovative industry leading technology to take the complexity out of managing Groups, Events & Meetings.  Our end to end solutions are designed for occasional planners but robust enough to support the many requirements of professional planners. 

The proprietary Groupize SPORTS technology is designed for sports and events with travel requirements.  We make it easy for organizers to focus on running successful and profitable events by taking all aspects of team and fan travel and simplifying it. Groupize starts where other sports apps and service providers quit.

Thousands of teams have used Groupize to source, book and manage hotels.  Many of the nation's top travel agencies and corporations rely on Groupize for their Registration and Housing needs. 

Groupize is the winner of the Best Emerging Travel Technology at PhocusWright. To learn more visit groupizesports.com.

Unless indicated otherwise, all trademarks and service marks herein are trademarks of Groupize, Inc. or an affiliate thereof.

Contact:
GROUPIZE
Alisa de Gaspe Beaubien
508-232-7719 x 215
[email protected]
www.groupize.com

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