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Experience Oz is an online travel experiences booking agency based on the Gold Coast, Australia. As of 2018, it is the largest provider of online experience bookings in the Australia/NZ region by booking volume, and provides the ticketing back ends for the majority of Australian automotive clubs (RACQ, NRMA, RAA, etc.) as well as functioning as the booking engine for a number of large national attractions.

The company's platform was one of the first e-commerce platforms built in the Grails web development framework. It runs direct integrations with thousands of large and small scale tour and attractions operators in both ANZ countries and offers them for online booking in a single location.

History
Experience Oz was founded as TicketMates Australia in 2006 by director Ben Manns with investment from two silent partners. Starting out as a front-desk concierge tour booking system on the Gold Coast under the TicketMates moniker, the company soon grew to encompass additional regions such as Sydney, Melbourne and other major metro areas. In 2010, the Experience Oz public brand was launched to provide direct booking functionality to public customers in the tours and attractions vertical.

Beginning in 2011, Experience Oz launched its annual "Australia's (and New Zealand's) Top 10 Destinations to Experience" public poll, which has since received annual coverage for highlighting the most desirable regions and activities within those regions from a consumer perspective.

In 2016, Queensland automotive club RACQ acquired a 45% ownership share of Experience Oz in order to more directly provide auxiliary travel booking services to their large member network.

In 2017, Experience Oz signed a Memorandum of Understanding to act as the Preferred Partner for Chinese travel giant Ctrip for the distribution of tour and attractions product in the Australia & New Zealand regions.

In 2018, Experience Oz launched the "7 Wonders of Australia" campaign to identify Australia's seven greatest natural and man-made wonders in conjunction with the Australian public and a panel of expert judges from across the tourism and conservation sectors. The campaign received nearly 70,000 votes from Australians across the country, and was heavily featured in national media and television including Sunrise, The Daily Telegraph , Lonely Planet , and over 130 other print and online media.

Awards and Recognition
Experience Oz was named Gold Coast Tourism Business of the Year at the 2017 Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards. It was also named Online Booking Site of the Year at the Australian Travel Awards in 2018.