Who, what and why
About Us
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What is Fossick Travel?
Fossick Travel was built to help you find better experiences, unique adventures and incredible destinations - through custom-built physical games. Each game is a self-guided adventure through different locations and activities. You'll find hidden treasures, wander and experience the world through a different lens. Our mission is to help you disconnect from the everyday, explore deeply and connect with yourself and your fellow adventurers - whether you explore solo, as a couple, family or group.
Fossick Travel sits at the juncture of destination support, discovery, and guest experience. Our platform is being built to help guests move beyond surface-level travel and engage more deeply with the places they visit. While supporting unique destinations by sharing the guest experiences that truly makes them a must-visit. Destinations who gamify create more immersive, memorable, and meaningful experiences for their visitors. Our platform is here to help you find new games and experiences - whether you're on vacation or heading out for an adventure near home.
At launch, Fossick begins in three ways: with the first five playable games, a curated collection of standout destinations and experiences, and a limited founding opportunity for destinations ready to come on-board early.
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Play real-world games designed for curiosity, presence, and adventure
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Discover a curated collection of remarkable places and experiences
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Join as a destination during the launch-phase founding window
Why did we build this?
We're looking for more than just checklist itineraries, theme parks with long lines and #HereForTheSelfie energy. We crave more meaningful, hands-on experience and adventures worth sharing with friends and family. No more 'quick stops' and 'social media content' trips - this is #slowtravel, with a bonus side quest. If you are looking to disconnect and head out on a true adventure, we're built for you.
At the same time, tourism operators need compelling ways to share what they're about; what makes them unique, different and undeniably worth visiting. We're here to help destinations get found - from the little hidden local treasures to that place that's totally worth the roadtrip. We give destinations a way to stand out and share unique guest experiences, deepen guest connection, and give people a reason to go further, stay longer, and talk about what they found.
Where are your game locations?
Fossick Travel is launching in Australia, with our first five games playable at locations in Queensland. Most of these early experiences are based in South East Queensland, particularly around Brisbane and the Granite Belt.
This first release is intentionally a blend: of destination-based games and games you can play more locally. Some experiences are designed for a specific place, while others are more flexible. The Mildly Heroic Hike Deck can be played in almost any nature setting, while Staycation is designed to be played close to home, wherever you live.
We built the first collection this way intentionally, to introduce the concept in a way that feels accessible and easy to try, without requiring extensive travel straight away. Over time, the majority of Fossick Travel games will be designed for specific destinations, encouraging people to travel with more purpose, curiosity, and connection.
We have more than a dozen game collaborations on the horizon, with plans to release multiple new destination-based game experiences each month.
Our Team
Fossick Travel is built by a small creative team with a deep love of travel, exploration, storytelling, and real-world adventure. Our goal is to help you find those 'hidden gem' moments out in the world and to reimagine how people experience places. We are artists, designers, game geeks and travellers ourselves. From game concepts and storytelling to destination partnerships and design, everything we create is built around discovery, connection, and memorable real-world moments.
Fossick Travel is a woman-owned company, built in Australia and shaped by a commitment to thoughtful, sustainable growth. We are 100% Australian owned and operated, and as we evolve, we are working toward a future that is 100% Australian manufactured (we're close!). We actively support women in business, small & micro businesses, not-for-profits and independent tourism and hospitality operators. We believe in championing a more sustainable relationship with the places we explore and investing in the kind of local, values-led enterprise we want to see more of.
Fossick Travel began with founder Kaili Rose, whose love of travel, exploration, fossicking, and offbeat adventure first took shape through a small adventure channel called weFossick, founded with partner Clay. What started as a creative outlet and a passion for discovering unusual places, hidden treasures, and meaningful moments in the real world gradually grew into something bigger.
As a designer, developer and hospitality insider, Kaili realised there was a unique opportunity to create something more experiential, more hands-on and more adventurous. While helping offbeat experiential locations and smaller operators reach guests with their unique offerings, she saw an opportunity to weave in game-style storytelling to make each traveller feel like the main character in their own quest. Taking lessons learned from years as a destination operator, and in web development, branding and marketing for hotels, resorts and attractions, she built a novel game platform.
We're ready for a shift in how we experience the world - at home and when we travel. More present. More thoughtful. More curious. Less hype, fewer selfies and fewer crowds. More authenticity. Quiet awe. Finding the treasure that’s been hiding in plain sight.
Stop. Slow down. Adjust your perspective. Explore your own city with new eyes, OR set out on a grand getaway - and view the world through a new lens. If you’re ready to find more magic in the everyday (and the far, faraway), we’d love to welcome you as a founding member.
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We've built a game, and the prize is the experience. Come play with us.
