USA Fencing and GroupHousing have extended their partnership agreement to include providing benefits to Regional Tournaments. The use of GroupHousing by regional tournament organizers is not mandatory but encouraged.
By partnering with GroupHousing, tournament organizers benefit from a streamlined approach to hotel sourcing, lightening the workload for event staff. The company takes charge of negotiating contracts with hotels, and strategically setting up housing blocks to meet the unique requirements of the USA Fencing community. GroupHousing goes the extra mile by generating complimentary rooms for organizers and accumulating valuable meeting planner points from major hotel companies, enhancing the overall experience for USA Fencing members and organizers alike.
Why should regional organizers work with GroupHousing?
- Their services are free to regional organizers. The hotels they work with pay them for their services.
- Assist in venue selection and contracts, if applicable.
- Contract all hotels for participants coming to your events.
- Implement a hotel rebate program if one does not exist.
- Grow the current hotel rebate program by 150% based on current clients.
- They will sponsor your organization to show their support and partnership.
- Pay all hotel rebates back to your organization within 14 days after the event’s conclusion.
- Guaranteed complimentary rooms for the tournament staff, referees, and VIP’s.
- Hotel reward points from all hotels for business or personal travel to the organization.
- No liability to your organization for any hotel contracts or to your attendees if an event is canceled.
- Their technology gives your organization real-time reporting for hotel rebates, bookings, and all complimentary staff rooms.
- Their post-event reporting includes a hotel points report, rebate report, and economic impact report for your organization and the local tourism organization.
- #1 in customer service based on recent 2023 surveys.
- Your organization will have access to their CEO and Vice President 24/7.
Rebate Structure with GroupHousing
$5 rebate per night will automatically be applied for all regional tournaments that work with GroupHousing. The national office will receive a cut of this $5 rebate but organizers will also be able to receive a portion of this rebate back to supplement revenue based on performance of their room block(s), post event.
In addition to the mandatory $5 rebate per night, organizers will be able to work with GroupHousing to negotiate up to an added $15 rebate per room night. Organizer may also choose not to add any additional rebate beyond the $5 rebate in the interest of keeping rates as low as possible. Rebate preferences will be discussed if a regional organizer chooses to work with GroupHousing. Regardless of the rebate amount, GroupHousing room rates are guaranteed to be the lowest published rates listed by the hotel property.
A recording of the GroupHousing Call held August 8, 2024 can be found here: