Big News Alert... The Progress Tour Has Been Renamed The HotelPlanner Tour After its New Title Sponsorship Agreement!

By now, you may have noticed some changes on our website... HotelPlanner, a leading travel technology platform and hotel booking engine, has officially become the Title Sponsor of the Progress Tour, renaming it the HotelPlanner Tour!

The passion and driving force behind the Tour are stronger than ever, as we continue to put the player's best interest at the core of our events. The five-year Sponsorship agreement will bring numerous positive additions to the Tour, with a £250,000 annual increase to the tour’s prize fund, significantly adding to the existing player support and enabling us to expand our tournament offerings.

It will also set us up with the tools to provide an improved service to the members across our existing and new player base. Furthermore, HotelPlanner will provide participants with great hotel rates for national and international travel, player hospitality, and voucher prizes.

“I’m excited to welcome HotelPlanner on board as title sponsor of the tour as we embark on this new chapter,” Barry Fulcher, Founder and Director of the Tour, said. “As with the Progress Tour, the newly named HotelPlanner Tour will continue to provide first-class playing experiences and earning opportunities for those players looking to progress their tennis careers and transition to the professional game.”

“HotelPlanner’s tech opens hotel doors for millions of travelers each year. It’s great to be opening the doors for the best up-and-coming tennis players,” Tim Hentschel, CEO, HotelPlanner.

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 Venuexplorer.com; Lucid Travel, which focuses on sports team travel; and its most recent acquisition, Eventsquid, which focuses on corporate and association event registration. Learn more at https://hotelplanner.com/. 

WHAT TO EXPECT GOING FORWARD?

Stay tuned for more information on the HotelPlanner Tour 2026 calendar of events, due to be announced in the coming months. There’s plenty to look forward to for players as we move into this new era… 

For the remainder of 2025, we will still host the following UTR Pro Tennis Tour events:

10-16 November: $50K UTR PTT Event in Gloucester

1-7 December: $50K UTR PTT Event in Cardiff

15-21 December: $50K UTR PTT Event in Dublin.

Registration for these events will open soon! See you all there!

The HotelPlanner Tour Team