Tripesa
Headquarters: Kenya
CEO: David Gonahasa
Wesbite: Tripesa
Founding Date: 2021
Investment: Undisclosed
Tripesa is building shopify for tourism, helping
small businesses in Africa build fully functional no-code e-commerce websites,
access digital payments and enabling
them run their
businesses with access to a back end CRM, Fx, Channel distribution and access
to ancillary products and inventory to sell.
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Strategic goals for 2025
Our focus in 2025 is to help our
users increase revenue by optimizing lead generation for their websites. We're
achieving this by:
- Expanding
channel distribution: Distributing their inventory through existing online travel agencies
(OTAs) and aggregating their content into various multi-vendor
marketplaces, enabling them to reach more customers.
- Increasing
online sales access: We've
completed integrations with Amadeus and Hotelnet, allowing us to
distribute flight and hotel inventory to multiple websites powered by
Tripesa. This functionality preserves their individual office IDs,
ensuring seamless management.
Lessons learned since founding
Small
businesses in Uganda using our no-code platform have increased monthly revenue
from $200 to over $5,000. As they grow, their needs evolve, requiring better
marketing and payment options. Tripesa democratizes technology, driving tourism
revenue growth and ensuring its equitable and sustainable distribution across
Africa, truly including the MSMEs that power the sector.
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