Roamlii is a digital command centre, supporting the end-to-end digital needs of small to medium sized Canadian tourism businesses...from Discovery & Promotion, to Lead & Inquiry Management, to Booking & Scheduling. As we evolve our own technology, and leverage strategic integrations, our focus is the holistic support and growth of the Canadian tourism industry. We're the first and only software company to create a powerful operational command centre for tourism businesses, and we aim to become the most useful platform for local and micro-tourism.

Existing platforms primarily showcase popular experiences, leaving much of the industry unsupported. Roamlii stands apart by championing and promoting smaller businesses, aiming for inclusivity across the diverse tourism landscape. In a world dominated by financially-driven algorithms and ads, travellers often miss out on lesser-known, but exceptional, experiences. Roamlii seeks to rectify this imbalance by offering a fairer representation, ensuring a broader discovery of brilliant destinations.

Roamlii’s mission is to revolutionize the current landscape of tourism platforms, advocating for fairness and a more comprehensive view of available travel experiences, while providing a full suite of promotional and lead management tools for its business partners, and a suite of discovery tools for its travellers.

The journey of an early stage startup often means a low level of awareness, particularly with a marketplace, where there are two distinct sides of the market that need to be established. So we often have to showcase what we can do, and what our value is first, in order to help people understand more clearly, and engage them to then participate.

One area we're extremely eager to evolve more fully into is Events and Festivals (Arts, Culture, Festivals, Events, Networking, Tech Conferences, etc.). There are thousands of events and festivals offered year round across Canada, but they're often poorly marketed, fragmented across multiple platforms, and people frequently find out about them AFTER they've taken place. So Roamlii aims to be the singular aggregator for as many of them as possible. These events could span public dance showcases, food festivals, arts and craft fairs, music festivals, street fairs, cultural expos, networking and business events, conferences, and so much more.

And so, the next epic in our developmental journey is curating the wealth of events and festivals across Canada onto our platform, and we need your help!

Student Responsibilities:

• Design a Data Collection Strategy: Identify sources and plan for gathering event details across Canada (name, date, location, pricing, organizers etc.).
• Develop Web Scrapers: Write Python scripts to extract event data from online sources.
• Clean & Structure Data: Process raw data into a consistent, usable format.
• Plan for Continuous Updates: Propose a method to keep the event database current.

Bonus steps could be getting us started with aggregating Sports as well

Learning Outcomes & Skills:

• Practical experience in Python-based web scraping and data pipeline development.
• Data cleaning, transformation, and structuring techniques.
• Problem-solving for real-world data challenges.
• Understanding of data maintenance strategies.
• Our stack includes Python and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Supporting a Canadian-based tech company to evolve.
• Support the Canadian tourism ecosystem to evolve.