Company profile
Experience commerce & travel technology
Local discovery.Connected commerce.
An experience-commerce platform connecting travel and hospitality brands with tours, activities and ancillary services through integrated booking and distribution technology.
Investment relationship
Held through Paynuity.
- Gliderdaleinvested in
- Paynuityinvested in
- Travel Curious
- Private toursProfessional local guides
- Hospitality partnersHotels, advisors and loyalty programs
- Unified Experiences PlatformConnectivity, inventory and fulfillment
Understanding the company
Where travel experiences
meet digital commerce.
Travel Curious operates at the intersection of travel experiences and digital commerce. Its consumer business offers private tours led by professional guides; its enterprise platform helps travel brands, hotels and loyalty programs integrate, distribute and sell experiences within their own channels.
The business addresses a fragmented market: experience operators need distribution, while hotels, travel advisors and loyalty programs need bookable inventory that fits their customer journey. Travel Curious connects those sides through its Unified Experiences Platform, combining supplier connectivity, inventory management, branded commerce and fulfillment.
Within Platform II, the company represents the application of connected commerce to travel: bringing experience supply, booking technology and partner distribution together. Paynuity’s investment links this business to Gliderdale’s payments and financial-technology portfolio.
The offering
From local discovery
to connected commerce.
- 01
Private tours and local expertise
Travelcurious.com connects travelers with private sightseeing tours and locally guided experiences. Its offering brings together handpicked professional guides, tailored itineraries and bookable experiences across cities and destinations worldwide.
- 02
Distribution built into the customer journey
For travel and hospitality partners, Travel Curious combines experience inventory with APIs, booking widgets and advisor tools. Partners can bring tours and activities into their own customer journeys rather than sending guests to a disconnected booking process.
- 03
Hotel and loyalty commerce
The company’s Access, Activate and Amplify solutions serve different partner needs: access to tours and experiences, hotel-led experience curation, and broader branded experience commerce. The offering includes booking management, ancillary services and customer support.
Three routes to market
The right connection
for each partner.
- 01
Access
APIs, an advisor portal and booking widgets connect partners to private tours and third-party experiences. The emphasis is on making inventory discoverable and bookable through the interface that fits the partner’s business.
- 02
Activate
Hotels can curate local and on-property experiences alongside services such as cabana bookings and other guest amenities. Inventory management and digital guest touchpoints connect experience discovery with the stay.
- 03
Amplify
A broader branded commerce offering brings together experiences, tours, transfers, tickets and other ancillary services, with experience-creation tools, points redemption and customer support.
Connectivity & distribution
Connecting supply to
the point of demand.
The July 2025 acquisition of Redeam expanded Travel Curious’s connectivity across experience suppliers and distributors, including attractions, theme parks and live entertainment. The combined platform’s proposition is to connect supply, distribution and commerce without tying partners to a single booking engine.
The subsequent IRIS partnership shows how this works in hospitality: a guest discovers a local tour through a hotel’s digital directory and can book and pay online. The 2026 CH Destinations agreement extends the distribution strategy toward enterprise and Asia-focused channels, while sports-team partnerships broaden the types of experiences offered.
Company news & press
Building the experience-
commerce network.
9 July 2026 / Company announcement
Sports experiences broaden the distribution network
Travel Curious announced signed team partnerships across the NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, WNBA and MLS, adding live sporting events and premium sports experiences to its platform for hotels, advisors, loyalty programs and travel brands.
Read the announcement (opens in a new tab)22 June 2026 / Company announcement
CH Destinations partnership expands international distribution
Travel Curious announced a partnership to bring CH Destinations’ ground experiences and transportation inventory into its platform, with planned distribution across enterprise channels and Asia-focused commerce networks, including WeChat.
Read the announcement (opens in a new tab)August 2025 / Company announcement
IRIS partnership connects hotel guests with bookable experiences
The companies announced an integration with the IRIS Digital Guest Directory, enabling participating hotels to offer local tours and experiences that guests can book and pay for online. The agreement connects experience discovery with the hotel’s existing digital guest journey.
Read the announcement (opens in a new tab)17 July 2025 / Company announcement
Redeam acquisition strengthens experience connectivity
Travel Curious announced its acquisition of Redeam and the formation of Travel Curious Group Inc., alongside a move of its global headquarters to the United States. The announcement described bringing Redeam’s supplier and distribution integrations into the combined experience-commerce platform.
Read the announcement (opens in a new tab)Platform II investment rationale
Commerce within an existing
customer relationship.
Travel Curious connects experience discovery with a transaction inside a partner’s existing customer journey. For Gliderdale’s Platform II, the relevance is the technology behind that connection: integration, distribution, booking and the operational coordination needed to fulfill a purchase.
Its position combines direct experience expertise with enterprise infrastructure. The opportunity is to make a complex supply market easier for partners to access while giving operators broader distribution. Paynuity is the investor in Travel Curious; Gliderdale participates through its investment in Paynuity.
- Brings connected commerce and travel technology into Platform II alongside payments infrastructure and financial-services software.
- Embeds bookable experiences into partner customer journeys through APIs, widgets and advisor tools.
- Connects experience inventory, distribution and booking management to support ancillary revenue for travel and hospitality brands.
Paynuity investment
A Paynuity investment.
- Gliderdaleinvested in
- Paynuityinvested in
- Travel Curious
Paynuity is the investor in Travel Curious. Gliderdale’s relationship is through its investment in Paynuity, not a direct investment. Investment amounts and transaction terms are confidential.
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