Built by a family that pioneered sports housing.

In the late 1990s, youth sports tournaments were booming across the country, but the hotel side of travel hadn't caught up. Events had no way to manage the demand they were creating, and families were left to figure out lodging on their own — searching for hotels near venues they'd never been to, in cities they didn't know. In 1998, Tom Berkman founded Tournament Housing Services (THS) to fix that. With more than two decades in the hotel industry behind him, Tom partnered directly with tournaments, negotiated group rates on behalf of traveling teams, and turned sports housing into a real business. THS quickly became one of the most trusted names in the space.

In 2016, Tom and his son Kyle launched Hotels4Teams to take that same approach online. Built by Ascent Digital Media and powered by HotelPlanner's worldwide hotel inventory, the site brought venue-first hotel search to anyone planning a trip around a game, tournament, or event. The idea was simple: start at the venue, show what's nearby, and back it up with real expertise.

Since then, the platform has grown steadily. The venue database has expanded, the technology has been refined, and in 2026 the entire site was rebuilt from the ground up — faster, smarter, and designed for the next decade of sports and event travel.