Source broadly.
Use the aggregator and partner ecosystem to access relevant inventory rather than forcing every journey through one source.
The part travellers see is only the last layer of a much larger machine.
Behind a flight or hotel booking sits a network of suppliers, aggregators, technology platforms, availability feeds, pricing rules and operational decisions. For years, our job was to work with that machinery.
That meant learning how inventory actually moves, how different sources behave, where pricing can vary, and why the cheapest result on a screen is not always the most useful option once availability, conditions and service are considered.
We were comfortable being behind the scenes. In fact, that was the point. We wanted to build the infrastructure that allowed travel businesses to do their job better.
That is the reason for the next chapter of Tripkabaap.
Our focus was technology, connectivity and the systems that sit behind travel businesses and their customers.
Working across the ecosystem showed us that good travel procurement is about more than a single source or a single price.
We now procure through relevant aggregators and partners, compare the available options, and bring suitable choices directly to customers across B2C travel and private charter.
Use the aggregator and partner ecosystem to access relevant inventory rather than forcing every journey through one source.
Price matters. So do availability, fare or rate conditions, reliability and the quality of the service around it.
Technology can surface choices. We still have a responsibility to make the experience clear and useful for the customer.
“Build the infrastructure. Understand the ecosystem. Then use both to improve the journey.”
Asish Dash founded Tripkabaap around a simple conviction: technology should make travel work better, not simply add another layer between the traveller and the journey.
His work with Tripkabaap has been rooted for years in the technology and infrastructure side of travel. That vantage point created an unusual understanding of how travel supply comes together — and where the customer experience can become unnecessarily complicated.
The move into B2C flights and hotels and private charter is therefore not a departure from the company's past. It is the practical extension of it: use the infrastructure, relationships and ecosystem knowledge already built; procure intelligently through aggregators and partners; compare what is available; and put the resulting choice in front of the traveller.
The ambition is straightforward: use technology where it creates an advantage, use the ecosystem where it creates choice, and keep service at the centre.
Flights. Hotels. Private charter. The same travel knowledge, now brought closer to the person taking the journey.