Book Your Block: The Event Housing Solution Provider of the Year Revolutionizing Youth Sports Lodging
The youth sports market is booming, reshaping local economies through weekend tournaments and regional championships that fuel hotel stays, restaurant visits, and generate millions in tourism dollars.
Securing the right event accommodations is crucial. Affordable and sufficient sport event lodging drives attendee commitment and event success.
Yet, amid such growth, hotel room block management often remains stuck in outdated processes—a costly inefficiency impacting hotel rebate revenue, Stay-to-Play compliance, and economic impact grant eligibility.
Book Your Block, recognized as an Event Housing Solution Provider of the Year, is changing the game with a game-changing approach to event housing.
Built by a team of event operators, venue executives, and tech innovators, this industry-leading event lodging platform transforms tournament lodging from a logistical headache into a powerful profit engine.
It delivers robust, intuitive hotel technology to streamline sourcing and booking hotel rooms, simplifying event lodging management.
“We’re not just fixing a problem—we’re reimagining what lodging can do for an event,” says Mark Shearer, CEO and founder of Book Your Block. “When you combine intuitive technology, a hospitality-first approach, and real-time data, hotel bookings begin to generate one of the most powerful and profitable revenue streams for events.”
A Full-Service Event Lodging Platform Built for Event Organizers
Unlike legacy housing services, Book Your Block is purpose-built as a comprehensive event lodging platform.
It manages the entire process from sourcing discounted group hotel rates to building branded booking sites, tracking Stay-to-Play compliance, and providing 24/7 visibility into booking performance.
One of the earliest challenges tackled was keeping teams together. In youth sports, the group experience on and off the field matters most. Book Your Block supports this by enabling group leaders to compare local hotels, secure dedicated room blocks, and share easy booking links. Families can book individually at guaranteed competitive rates, ensuring everyone stays at the same hotel—without endless email chains or lost reservations.
This seamless experience strengthens team unity, simplifies travel coordination, and enhances the tournament atmosphere.
Mark Shearer notes, “If we can help keep teams together, provide timely communications, improve compliance, grow revenue, and simplify life for hotels and organizers, then we’ve done our job.”
Supercharging Event Hotel Conversions and Communications
Where many event housing platforms stop at simple booking links, Book Your Block drives conversion with full data transparency and real-time integration.
Its event lodging platform connects seamlessly to tournament registration APIs, allowing instant access to team registration data that powers targeted outreach.
“Our event housing software gives event operators visibility they never had before,” Shearer explains. “Without seeing your hotel room block conversion rates, you can’t improve them. Our platform delivers that critical insight.”
Once teams register, the system reaches out within 24 hours with tailored lodging options, then stays engaged with reminders, updates, and concierge-level support. Group leaders use a dedicated dashboard to monitor bookings and compliance, while automated communications engage thousands of teams without delay.
Managing Stay-to-Play Compliance with Ease
Book Your Block’s platform automates Stay-to-Play compliance tracking by flagging non-booked teams and notifying organizers instantly, eliminating tedious spreadsheet monitoring.
Real-time dashboards deliver insights into hotel inventory, booking pace, and group behavior, allowing event managers to adjust swiftly and maximize room block utilization.
These analytics are essential not just for compliance but for proving economic impact to hotel partners, convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs), and sports commissions—key to securing ongoing funding and grants.
Human-Centered Event Hospitality
While cutting-edge technology powers the process, personalization remains core. Book Your Block's US-based team blends hospitality expertise with scalable technology to provide support where it counts—from group leaders to hotel general managers.
“At the end of the day, it’s about creating a simple and seamless hotel booking process for everyone involved,” Shearer highlights.
Proven Results with Measurable Impact
A mid-Atlantic venue managing hotel blocks for 32 annual events improved operations after partnering with Book Your Block, securing over 21,000 room nights and generating six-figure hotel rebate revenue. The platform’s data tracking revealed a $32 million economic impact, strengthening grant applications and stakeholder buy-in.
A Northeast tournament operator committed to strict lodging policies boosted hotel rebate revenue by 118% over two years through enhanced compliance tracking and expanded hotel partnerships. This growth increased CVB engagement and unlocked future event funding.
Beyond Youth Sports: Festivals, Conventions & Citywide Events
As the youth sports market expands, Book Your Block is scaling its event lodging platform into broader event categories, such as festivals and conventions, where last-minute registrations and dynamic room block management challenge organizers daily.
Mark Shearer explains, “Our Automated AI solution creates custom booking sites with deeply discounted rates, automates communication at scale, and tracks bookings in real-time—all the way to event day. This ability to demonstrate the economic impact of hotel reservations outside of group blocks is a real industry game changer.”
Looking Forward: Innovation and Growth
Having grown through bootstrapping, Book Your Block is now seeking strategic investment to accelerate expansion into new event markets while refining its technology and deepening its presence in the youth sports arena.
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