13 partners from across the industry – ticketing/reservation systems, OTAs and other resellers, tourism marketing firms, tour guide training companies, and event companies – join to rally the cause

Boulder, CO (August 4, 2020) – Redeam, the leading and only independent global connectivity stack with digitized channel management and voucher redemption/reconciliation solutions for the Experiences industry, today announced the Tour Guide Throwdown event, which will take place on August 13, 2020 from 11:30am – 1:30pm ET. Tour Guide Throwdown is a live online competition among tour guides worldwide who will vie for bragging rights and a cash-and-prize combined kitty of over $5,000. Competing tour guides will need to present themselves and their tour in two minutes or less, and their performances will be judged by a panel of experts and voted upon by a live audience. Contestants worldwide – from San Francisco, New Orleans, Detroit, Seattle, The Rocky Mountains, Canada, Barbados, Australia, Puerto Rico, Greece, Thailand, Peru, Czechia, Pakistan, and Croatia — have already begun to sign up. Tour Guide Throwdown, produced by Redeam and its industry event partners – Arival, Blend Marketing, Centaman, Checkfront, Global Tours Connect, Groupon, Indie Travel, JetBlue Travel, Peek, smarTours, The Trip School, Touriosity, and VivaTicket — is a free event to enter as a competitor or attend as an audience member. The only way to vote for the final winners is to register to watch the event.

“Since Redeam is uniquely positioned as the only independent middleware solution in our space, we wanted to really show our support for our entire ecosystem,” said Redeam CEO Melanie Meador. “By producing this event we hope to bring some fun positivity to those on the front lines of the tourism industry – the tour guides – who have been hardest hit by the closure or constraints on so many attractions and activities. We feel so fortunate to be joined in this endeavor by so many great partners in our ecosystem, all of whom see the value in elevating the moment. We hope to attract more tour guides from across the spectrum of attractions and activities, and an even larger audience of live viewers.”

To learn more about how tour, attraction, and activity operators rely on Redeam to easily automate their businesses so that they can sell more tickets around the world, visit the Redeam website.

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About Redeam

Redeam (www.redeam.com) is a Boulder, CO-based SaaS solutions business that empowers the growth of tours, attractions, and activities so that more people can enjoy the world. Redeam is the only global technology company with an agnostic channel manager solution connecting Supply and Demand of the Experiences sector of travel. Redeam’s middleware solutions enable the seamless and automated passing of product and booking data back and forth between Operators and Distributors, thereby enabling the sale of more tickets, a better check-in process for guests, elimination of operational strain caused by too many manual processes or fraud, and improves payment reconciliation timelines. For its innovative solutions, Redeam has garnered over nine accolades and awards including PhocusWire’s Top 20 Start Up’s to Watch for 2019 and the 2018 Future Travel Experience Startup Competition Winner. The company works with hundreds of resellers and partners such as jetBlue Travel, Groupon, and Expedia, and serves thousands of attraction and activity operators globally like Walt Disney World, BigBus Tours, Boston Harbor Cruises, and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Redeam also hosts a free Experiences Industry Online Glossary.