BuuPass Launches Gavanpass for Corporate Travel Booking

In Short

BuuPass launched Gavanpass on April 23, 2026, a corporate travel booking platform in Kenya aimed at helping enterprises manage business trips, approvals, and spending.

What Happened: BuuPass Launches Gavanpass

Kenyan travel booking company BuuPass is moving into corporate travel with a new product called Gavanpass.

BuuPass said more than 20 enterprises in Kenya are already using the platform. These include banks, fintechs, insurers, and manufacturers.

The company has spent the last eight years building a consumer marketplace for bus, rail, and flight bookings. It now wants a share of a segment it describes as largely undigitised, meaning many companies still manage trips with emails, phone calls, and spreadsheets.

Gavanpass is built for finance and procurement teams that control travel budgets, and operations staff who coordinate travel. Procurement is the team that buys services for a company, similar to a central purchasing desk.

BuuPass said the platform brings flights, hotels, buses, ground transfers, and group travel into one system. It also includes approval workflows, meaning trips can require sign-off before booking, plus policy controls and real-time spend tracking.

BuuPass also shared scale numbers to show its base in travel commerce. Since 2017, the company says it has sold over 30 million tickets, and processed more than $100 million in travel transactions in the past year, mainly across Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa.

Why It Matters

Corporate travel is often higher value than consumer bookings, and it tends to be recurring. Winning one large employer can mean consistent monthly volume.

For enterprises, centralising bookings and approvals can reduce leakage, which is spending that happens outside policy. It can also make reconciliation easier, which is matching every trip to a budget line and a receipt.

For BuuPass, Gavanpass is a bet that its supply network and booking infrastructure can extend beyond individual travellers. If adoption grows beyond the initial 20+ companies, it could deepen BuuPass’s position in Africa’s travel and mobility stack.