After 3 year hiatus, the Competitours mystery European team travel competition is back.

Featuring 10 teams of two players zigzagging on a secret routing across the nooks and crannies
of Western Europe, participants earn points by accomplishing a series of daily challenges that pushes them gently out of their comfort zone. The top three teams split a cash pool. In 2019, 70% of the teams were repeat players – that’s how much people love it. Each year is a totally new itinerary.

My Award Booking Partner Steve

Many of you know that I offer an award booking service. It grew too big to handle on my own, and I was fortunate enough to be able to partner with one of the real veterans and gurus in the frequent flyer game, Steve Belkin (known in online forums as ‘beaubo’).

Steve is most famous for exploiting loopholes in frequent flyer programs like Aeroplan and United’s MileagePlus in a truly big way, scaling opportunities to earn millions instead of thousands of miles. And in that pursuit he has hired disable Thai rice farmers to fly in and out of the Golden Triangle area of Thailand, and New Zealand college students to fly to Europe for the summer. He is author of the new book, Mileage Maniac.

His ‘Amazing Race for Regular People’

One of the really fun projects he’s had is called Competitours. Every summer, Steve disappears from work to run what the Chicago Tribune calls “The Amazing Race for Regular People.”

www.COMPETITOURS.com is a team travel competition, traversing a mystery itinerary of Western Europe and earning points by accomplishing a daily dose of surprise challenges in pursuit of a cash prize.

Challenges are structured to test teams’ creativity, resourcefulness and spontaneity (NOT speed or fitness – hah!).  Each day’s destination and challenges are revealed a suspenseful 24 hours in advance each day. Unlike the ‘Amazing Race’ TV show, Competitours steers clear of weird food, exhausting tasks and manufactured conflict and drama.

It’s a great project, reports are that the trips are great fun. SightDoing has a great review. So does Going Awesome Places.

I’ve helped teams in the past represent View from the Wing and have gotten terrific feedback from participants. This trip is a non-replicable adventure.

For avoidance of doubt I have no financial interest whatsoever in Competitours.