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Travel management platform Voyagu fights industry’s staff shortage

Ivan Saprov, CEO & Founder of Voyagu.

ML-based platform offers a quick career start and instant income generation for aspiring travel workers and allows independent agents to increase personal income by up to 3 times compared to industry average. 

SAN FRANSISCO – Amidst a post-pandemic surge in travel demand, Voyagu, a booking platform for premium travelers, launches to solve the staffing shortage of travel advisors, agents and agencies. Ivan Saprov, entrepreneur and traveltech professional, invested $800,000 to create a tech tool that allows travel professionals to increase revenue and reduce workload through simplified search, booking and trip management while also facilitating easy entry into the field for aspiring travel workers.

The Voyagu platform, “the Uber of trip booking,” is powered by self-developed ML-based technology with a new generation search engine. It reduces search time for travel advisors from hours to minutes enabling a 220% boost in gross revenue and a triple increase in annual personal income. Voyagu also makes trip management and post-booking changes easy and effective. Long-term impact includes high client retention rates, up to 87% customer satisfaction and a minimum of two repeat bookings per client annually. 

Travel advisors' clients get the most competitive deals on the market and save up to 35% compared to buying the same travel products online or from an offline travel agency. Travelers can also use the platform directly by placing a booking request. 

“Travel advisors are experiencing pressure due to unprecedented travel demand and staff shortages across the industry. We want to empower them with technology to eliminate the burden of time-consuming tasks and allow them to focus on delivering quality client service,” says Ivan Saprov, CEO & Founder of Voyagu. “Our platform aims to solve the staffing shortage in the long run by offering an easy and accessible tool for a quick career start and instant income generation to encourage more specialists to become travel advisors."

Ivan Saprov, an entrepreneur with 10 years of experience in traveltech, founded Voyagu in 2020. Voyagu’s mission is to leverage technology in order to maximize travel advisor efficiency, simplify trip booking and management and provide best travel offers for premium travelers, thereby elevating their overall travel experience. The company plans to raise a seed round in Q1 2023.

The Voyagu platform partly competes with Expedia, Priceline, Travelocity and JustFly. Its primary advantage is being the first trilateral marketplace in the industry, using tech to streamline travel advisors’ workflows and increase revenues and elevate the customer experience. Ivan expects to grow Voyagu up to 30,000 monthly unique clients by 2025.

The market size of the travel agency sector in the United States fell to $20.69 billion in 2020, down from the previous year's total of $56.96 billion. In 2022, it bounced back up to $47.9 billion due to countries lifting travel restrictions and travel companies resuming their operations to address the high traveling demand.

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