Why Travelstop?

As both employees and employers at our previous companies, we experienced first-hand the many frustrations businesses faced when it came to business travel planning and expense reporting.

As employers, we were faced with limited options for managing business travel, many of which were not SME-friendly at all.

As employees, we wasted an incredible amount of time wrangling with paperwork and rigid travel policies, contributing to a sub-par, unglamorous experience when out in the field.

In an age of rapid innovation, we felt it was unacceptable that the business travel market — which hit $1.2 trillion globally in 2015 — would be so far behind the curve. In particular, the Asia Pacific region takes up 40% of this pie, making it the most significant business travel market in the world. And business travel spending in this region is expected to double by 2025.

Existing business travel tools have not kept pace with the modern business traveller, and are generally not affordable by SME standards. In the meantime, leisure travellers were enjoying a host of cheap, convenient booking options, thanks to online travel agencies such as Expedia and Agoda.

This was a massive pain point, in an equally large market, just waiting to be solved. So we decided to tackle this problem head-on and build something that we would love to use ourselves. We wanted to bring all the product innovation happening in the consumer space to the enterprise world, leveraging technologies such as machine learning and AI-driven personalisation to build a compelling and modern experience for today’s business traveller.

Which is why we started Travelstop, a modern travel platform aimed at simplifying business travel.