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Annual IAAPA International Charity Golf Tournament Tees Off for Give Kids The World
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he 23nd Annual IAAPA International Charity Golf Tournament benefiting Give Kids The World returns on Sunday, November 15. This
memorable event brings together professionals from across the global attractions industry for a day of camaraderie, networking, and friendly World and children with critical illnesses and their families.
Chloe Hausfeld, Co-Chair of the Golf Committee and Partnership and Sponsorship Director at the tournament has become a meaningful tradition and a great way for the global attractions industry to reconnect before the start of IAAPA Expo. Our Kids The World so they can continue to create unforgettable wish vacations for children and families. Every registration, sponsorship, and Hausfeld is joined by fellow industry Co-Chairs
Walt Bowser of Baynum Solutions; Sasha Czibulka of Intamin; Jeff Hudson of HB Leisure; and Andrew Mowatt of WhiteWater who come together each year to coordinate the annual event.
a special milestone: 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Give Kids The World. The event will honor 40 years of providing cost-free, incredible vacation experiences to Central Florida and Give and providing unforgettable experiences to children with critical illnesses and their families. To date, Give Kids The World has welcomed more than 205,000 wish families from all 50 states and 78 countries. Foursomes and individual players are
encouraged to register now. In addition to tournament play, participants can deepen their impact as sponsors. Partnership opportunities help raise sponsor visibility across the industry while driving support for Give Kids The World. The Golf Committee is proud to announce the Tournament Ace Partner and INTAMIN Amusement Rides as the Breakfast Sponsor.
an ambitious fundraising goal for this tournament. I personally invite colleagues and friends from
The IAAPA International Charity Golf
Tournament will take place at Shingle Creek Golf Club and will feature an 8 a.m. shotgun start. Golfer registration includes breakfast, greens fee, cart, range balls, tee packet, bag valet, a networking lunch and tournament prizes. Registration options are available for individuals, pairs, threesomes, and foursomes, and club rental is available.
UK patent granted: WeJam play-along band technology
WeJam, the live band experience in Camden Town, has been granted a UK patent for the technology behind it, and is making the format available to attractions, resorts and holiday operators under licence.
"Everyone has a song they would secretly love to play," said David Tshulak, founder of WeJam. "We took away the ten years of practice in between." Groups walk in having never played anything, pick up an instrument, and are performing a song they have known all their lives within a couple of minutes. Each player follows colours on a screen in front of them and only has to play one note at a time, which is what makes it learnable in seconds. It is still genuinely them playing, though.
"It is not a simulator and it is not karaoke. Play the wrong note and everyone in the room hears you do it," Tshulak said. "Nobody needs to hear a perfect version. There is already a perfect version; it is on Spotify." Players set their own difficulty, so a teenager who has drummed for years and an uncle who has never touched a keyboard can be in the same band without either being bored or lost, with a leaderboard to settle who actually played best. Sessions run from an ever-revolving catalogue of around 75 pop and rock songs.
The whole set is recorded, not just the last song, and the group takes it away on its own band page. Groups can also put in a rider before they arrive, the way a touring band would.
Drinks are the usual order, pre-arranged onto the booking. Some push it further. Past requests have included a framed portrait of Princess Diana and a red toilet roll.
"Everyone leaves with a recording of themselves playing," Tshulak said, "which is either a souvenir or evidence, depending on the song."
WeJam has run the format from its own studio on Chalk Farm Road in Camden since 2022 and has taken thousands of groups through the doors. Sessions last 90 minutes for groups of two to ten and start at GBP 39 per person. The studio is rated 5.0 on Google.
The licence covers the software, the song catalogue, studio configuration and staff certification, with WeJam installing and supporting each site. Session length is configurable from a single song to a full private booking, which lets an operator set the format against its own throughput: run as a one-song attraction, a studio turns around a group every ten minutes, or 36 guests an hour. "It works for a hen party at nine in the evening and a family with a nine-year-old at eleven in the morning," Tshulak said. "Not many things in a resort do both."
10 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER IAAPA EXPO EDITION 2026
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