BuuPass has launched Gavanpass, a corporate travel platform in Kenya that combines bookings, approval workflows, and real-time spend tracking for companies.
On April 23, 2026, BuuPass launched Gavanpass, a corporate travel booking and management platform for enterprises in Kenya and across Africa. BuuPass says more than 20 Kenyan organisations are already using Gavanpass to book trips and track travel spending.
BuuPass is best known for consumer travel bookings across bus, rail, and flights. Now it is moving into corporate travel, a segment where many companies still rely on emails, phone calls, and manual expense claims.
BuuPass says Gavanpass targets finance and procurement teams that manage travel budgets, plus operations teams that coordinate trips. The platform combines bookings for flights, hotels, buses, ground transfers, and group travel in one place.
It also includes approval workflows, which are step-by-step sign-offs before a booking is confirmed. It adds policy controls, meaning companies can set rules like budget limits or preferred vendors, and real-time spend tracking so finance teams can see costs as they happen.
BuuPass told TechCabal that more than 20 enterprises in Kenya, including banks, fintechs, insurers, and manufacturers, are already using Gavanpass.
The company has built scale on the consumer side. Since 2017, BuuPass 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.
Corporate travel is often one of the messiest expense categories for African companies. A single tool that covers booking, approvals, and budget visibility can reduce fraud risk and speed up month-end reconciliation.
For BuuPass, the move diversifies revenue beyond consumer ticketing, which can be seasonal and price sensitive. It also puts BuuPass closer to higher value enterprise contracts and longer customer retention.
If Gavanpass grows beyond Kenya, it could compete with traditional travel management agencies by offering a software layer, not just an agent service.
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