Help your customers save their way to their next trip.
Akibo gives travel businesses the tools to turn travel plans into structured savings goals — helping customers save progressively until they're ready to travel.
Travel companies sell the journey.Akibo helps customers save for it.
Offered by your travel company
Zanzibar Escape
Akibo Travel Goal- Target
- KES 120,000
- Saved
- KES 0
- Travel companySells the journey
- CustomerChooses the trip
- Savings goalPowered by Akibo
- Funded tripReady to travel
From “someday” to a seat on the plane.
Every Akibo goal follows the same arc. Your business supplies the destination — Akibo carries the customer the rest of the way.
- 01 · Dream“I want to go to Zanzibar.”
- 02 · Plan“My trip costs KES 120,000.”
- 03 · Save“I can save KES 10,000 per month.”
- 04 · Progress“I'm 65% funded.”
- 05 · Achieve“I'm fully funded.”
- 06 · Travel“I'm going to Zanzibar.”
Travel customers have the dream. The challenge is paying for it.
Many customers want to travel but struggle to pay for an entire trip at once. The interest is real — the enquiry, the saved brochure, the “let me get back to you.”
For travel businesses, that gap is lost revenue: people who genuinely want the trip, but can't make the full payment today. Akibo helps bridge that gap.
Instead of
- Customer wants trip
- Can't afford full payment
- Doesn't book
Akibo enables
- Customer wants trip
- Creates savings goal
- Saves progressively
- Reaches target
- Travels
Give customers a better way to say “yes” to travel.
- 01
Create the Trip
The travel company creates or offers a travel package.
Package
Zanzibar Escape
7 nights · Flights + stay
- 02
Set the Goal
The customer's travel cost becomes a savings target.
TargetKES 120,000 - 03
Save Over Time
The customer contributes toward the target according to their preferred saving plan.
Weekly, monthly or flexible
- 04
Track Progress
The customer sees exactly how close they are to being fully funded.
Funded65% - 05
Travel
Once the goal is achieved, the customer is ready for their journey.
100% funded Ready for take-off
More customers can afford the journey.
Akibo turns travel interest that would otherwise walk away into committed customers who are actively working toward your trip.
Increase Conversions
Give customers a way to commit to a trip without needing the entire amount upfront. The “not right now” becomes “I've started saving.”
Maasai Mara Safari
Example- EnquiriesInterested in the trip
- Pay in full todayReady to book upfront
- Start a savings goalWith Akibo
Illustrative only — not a measured result.
Reach More Customers
Make travel accessible to customers who prefer to save progressively.
Improve Customer Engagement
Keep customers connected to their upcoming trip through visible savings progress.
Encourage Repeat Travel
A customer who successfully saves for one journey can create another goal for their next adventure.
Strengthen Customer Relationships
Stay connected with customers throughout the period between booking and travelling.
Create New Revenue Opportunities
Build new products and customer experiences around structured travel savings.
One platform between interest and departure.
Your business stays the travel brand your customers know. Akibo runs quietly behind it — powering the goal, the saving and the progress.
- Step 1Travel CompanyOffers trips and packages to its customers.
- Step 2Akibo PlatformTurns any trip into a structured savings goal.
- Step 3Customer Creates Travel GoalTrip price becomes the target.
- Step 4Customer SavesContributes on a plan that suits them.
- Step 5Goal ReachedThe trip is fully funded.
- Step 6Customer TravelsThe journey they saved for.
A better travel experience starts before the trip.
For your customers, Akibo turns a big number into a clear plan — and a plan into visible momentum toward the trip you sold them.
- A goal with a destinationNot an abstract savings pot — a specific trip, with a price and a date.
- Progress they can seeEvery contribution moves the bar. Every milestone is a reason to keep going.
- Anticipation, not anxietyThe months before departure become part of the experience.
“I don't have to afford the whole trip today. I can start saving for it today.”
Travel goal
My Zanzibar Trip
Saved
KES 0
Target
KES 120,000
0% Complete
Target date
15 July 2027
Next contribution
KES 2,500
KES 45,500 to go · you're getting closer
See every goal, every traveller, every upcoming trip.
Partner Overview
Sample travel company · placeholder figures- Active Customers
- 0
- Total Travel Goals
- 0
- Goals In Progress
- 0
- Goals Completed
- 0
- Upcoming Trips
- 0
| Customer | Trip | Goal | Progress | Target Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJane | Zanzibar | KES 120K | 82% | June |
| BBrian | Maasai Mara | KES 95K | 64% | July |
| SSarah | Dubai | KES 180K | 45% | August |
| KKevin | Diani Beach | KES 60K | 100% | Ready · May |
| AAmina | Cape Town | KES 210K | 28% | October |
Your customers don't need to have it all today.
They need a clear way to start. Akibo gives your business that starting line.
Flexible Saving
Customers can work toward their travel goals progressively.
Goal Visibility
Customers can see how close they are to their trip.
Better Customer Engagement
Keep customers connected to the travel experience before departure.
Built For Travel
Akibo is designed specifically around the economics and behaviour of travel customers.
Built for every business that sells a journey.
Akibo fits into your travel business.
Akibo is designed to work alongside what you already have. We work with each partner to bring travel savings into the parts of the customer journey where it makes the most sense.
Build With Akibo
Connect your travel experience to Akibo. Our technology team will walk you through the integration options that suit your systems and customer journey.
Talk To Our Technology TeamFrom first call to first funded trip.
Onboarding is a partnership. We shape the savings experience around your products, your customers and your brand.
- 01
Talk To Us
Tell us about your travel business and customer journey.
- 02
Design Your Experience
Together, determine how travel savings will work for your customers.
- 03
Integrate Akibo
Connect Akibo to your existing customer experience.
- 04
Launch
Start offering travel savings to your customers.
- 05
Grow
Help more customers turn their travel dreams into funded journeys.
The big idea
Don't just sell the trip. Help customers reach it.
With Akibo, travel businesses can move beyond selling destinations and start helping customers financially prepare for the journey.
From “Maybe Someday” to “We're Going.”
A hypothetical traveller, a real-world plan. This is how a single Akibo goal turns a trip that felt out of reach into a confirmed departure.
- Trip
- Zanzibar
- Package
- KES 120,000
- Monthly saving
- KES 10,000
- Duration
- 12 months
- Goal
- 100% funded
Saved toward the Zanzibar trip
Cumulative balance, month by month (KES)
- “I've started.”Month 1: KES 10,000
- Month 2: KES 20,000
- Month 3: KES 30,000
- Month 4: KES 40,000
- Month 5: KES 50,000
- “Halfway there.”Month 6: KES 60,000
- Month 7: KES 70,000
- Month 8: KES 80,000
- Month 9: KES 90,000
- Month 10: KES 100,000
- Month 11: KES 110,000
- “We're going.”Month 12: KES 120,000
Month
Our mission
Make travel more achievable by helping people save intentionally for the journeys they want — while giving travel businesses the technology to make it possible.
We're building the financial layer for travel.
Travel should not only be something people dream about.
Travel businesses should have better tools to help customers financially prepare for the experiences they want. Akibo exists to connect these two worlds.
Save Smart. Travel Far.
Customer savings deserve complete clarity.
When your customers save toward a trip, they're trusting you — and you're trusting us. We believe partners should get straight, documented answers to every one of these questions before going live.
Security
Ask us: How is the platform secured, and how is access controlled?
Customer data
Ask us: What customer data is collected, where is it stored, and who can see it?
Payments
Ask us: How do customers contribute, and how do funds move when a goal is reached?
Compliance
Ask us: Which compliance obligations apply to Akibo and to partners?
Partner controls
Ask us: What can my team configure, view and manage for our customers?
Support
Ask us: Who supports my customers and my team, and how?
Regulatory framework
Ask us: Under which regulatory framework does Akibo operate?
Financial partners
Ask us: Which financial institutions are involved in holding or moving funds?
Questions partners ask first.
Short answers to the things travel businesses usually want to know before a first conversation.
Is Akibo a tour operator?
No. Akibo doesn't sell trips. Travel businesses sell the journey — Akibo provides the technology that helps their customers save for it.
Do customers need to pay the full trip cost upfront?
No. That's the point. A customer turns the trip cost into a savings goal and contributes toward it over time, according to a saving plan that suits them.
Does Akibo replace our booking or payment systems?
Akibo is designed to work alongside your existing customer journey. Where and how it fits — website, app, customer portal, booking flow — is something we design with each partner.
What kinds of businesses can partner with Akibo?
Travel agencies, tour operators, travel consultants, corporate travel companies, hotels and resorts, and experience providers — any business whose customers plan ahead for a trip or stay.
Can a customer save for more than one trip?
Once one journey is funded, a customer can set a goal for their next adventure — which is one way Akibo helps encourage repeat travel.
Where can I learn about security, payments and regulation?
Talk to our team. We'll take you through how Akibo handles customer data, payments, compliance and the financial partners involved as part of partner onboarding.
Turn travel dreams into funded journeys
Ready to help your customers travel?
Partner with Akibo and give your customers a smarter way to save toward the journeys they want.
For your businessTurn more travel interest into actual, funded trips.
For your customers“I don't have to afford the whole trip today. I can start saving for it today.”