Kent World Travel × Lumanaire
A venture proposal, prepared like one of your trips

The platform your trips deserve.

One system for the black book, the brochures, and the trip itself. Built with Kent World Travel first, then sold to every partner who still presents a $25,000 trip in a Word document.

Prepared for
Matt & Didi Kent
Prepared by
Jarryd Phillips, Lumanaire
Date
10 July 2026
First logins
48 hours after sign-off
The travel brief

You run world-class trips on Google Sheets and a WhatsApp group.

Ninety-four five-star Google reviews. Trips at $22,000 a guest for Dallas Country Club, Desert Mountain, Promontory, The Landings, Wildcat Cliffs, Long Cove, Northwood and Country Club of the Rockies. Giltedge calls you one of its most important clients. And the tools still fight you: Didi rebuilds every DMC brief by hand, guests miss the 6am change in a muted WhatsApp thread, and the black book that will one day be the value of the business lives across a dozen spreadsheets.

We researched the whole field: Safari Portal, Travefy, Vamoos, Tern, TravelJoy, Axus, Wetu, mTrip and a dozen more. Every one of them is strong at exactly one thing and weak at the rest. Nobody ships the bundle you actually need. So we build it, together, and then we sell it to everyone you already work with.

The product
Leopard Creek Country Club, from Kent World Travel's own destination gallery
Pillar one 路 The black book

A CRM that knows five things, then everything.

Name, email, phone, birthday, trips traveled. That is the whole form. The rest builds itself: every trip appends, every host adds notes, and the profile becomes the asset you eventually sell the business on.

Dallas Country Club has gone South Africa, then Australia, then Vietnam with you. The pipeline holds that rhythm for every club, with spiff ledgers built for five-figure payouts, and Robbie gets his own login and his own book on day one.

JH
Jim H.
Dallas Country Club 路 3 trips 路 gold
No early tee timesPinot noirTravels with Carol
"Wants New Zealand next. Ask about the grandkids, both at Stanford now."
Robbie 路 Vietnam, March 2026
Wildcat Cliffs CC 路 South Africa, Oct 2025Confirmed
Dallas CC 路 Australia, Oct 29 to Nov 8Promoting
CC of the Rockies 路 MoroccoProposal
Morocco, from Kent World Travel's own destination gallery
Pillar two 路 The studio

The DMC sends a Word document. Your client sees this page.

Drop in any brief: the DMC's Word file for Wildcat Cliffs' October departure, the Morocco proposal for Country Club of the Rockies, a forwarded email chain. The studio extracts every stop, night, property and inclusion, asks about the gaps, and pours it into your page structure.

One source of truth, three faces: a live web itinerary with this page's polish, a print-quality brochure for the club lobby, and the traveler app. Change once, live everywhere.

DOCXWildcatCliffs_SouthAfrica_Oct2025_FINAL_v3(2).docx 路 14 pages, from the DMC
Day 6 路 SundayMalaMala
Sunrise game drive, dinner under the stars
MalaMala Private Game Reserve 路 wake-up call 05:15, coffee first 路 dress warm
A Kent World Travel group on safari, from their own gallery
Pillar three 路 The trip in their pocket

6am. The mountain is closed. Every guest already knows.

The host flips the day from bed and the change lands on twenty lock screens before breakfast. Announcements replace the WhatsApp group, with read receipts so you know exactly who still needs a knock on the door.

One app: today's program, documents, weather, the dinner shortlist for free evenings, and a private photo stream that finally retires PhotoCircle. Afterwards the trip stays as a keepsake, and the next launch arrives as a push, not an email.

Kent World Travelnow
Weather hold: Table Mountain
Day flipped. Departure moves to 9:30, breakfast until 9:00. Sleep in.
Read by 16 of 20 guests · host console shows the other four
"My members trust me with their travel arrangements, and I trust Kent World Travel to deliver." Euan Dougal 路 Director of Golf, Dallas Country ClubThis trust is the distribution channel. The platform gives it software.
Need to know

What the research says, including the parts that sting.

AI import is table stakes now.

Tern, Safari Portal, Travefy and mTrip all parse documents. Ours has to be better, not first: messy Word files, merged briefs, pricing tables kept intact, and output that follows Didi's page structure instead of dumping text.

Vamoos already owns golf travel.

Haversham & Baker and Garmany Golf run on it. It is the best traveler app in the field, and it has no CRM, no studio, no shared photo album and no group announcements. We win on the bundle, not the gadget.

The window is 12 to 18 months.

mTrip shipped its AI wizard in February. Tern ships weekly. The full bundle is still unclaimed, and first-mover in front of your DMC network is worth more than any feature. Hence the 48-hour clock.

The field

Eight incumbents, one empty seat.

PlayerOwnsLacksAnchor
Safari PortalThe design bar. Our north star.Deep CRM, adopted traveler app, fair pricing$199 to 399/mo
TravefyBrand and supplier contentDesign, group ops, affordable white-label$39 to 59/mo
VamoosTraveler app and push. Golf niche.CRM, AI, photo albums, Android reliability$323 to 2,528/mo
TernCRM depth, AI velocityWhite-label, agent mobile, groups$49/seat/mo
TravelJoyGroup bookings and paymentsLuxury output; thin traveler app$19 to 39/mo
AxusUS luxury advisor channelA 3.5-star app that crashes; no CRM$29 to 35/seat/mo
WetuAfrican DMC presentationDesign flexibility, AI, real app, CRM$75 to 395/mo
mTripWhite-label apps, AI wizardCRM, group social, open pricingquote only

Full teardown with sources, review mining and compliance flags lives in the repo: COMPETITORS.md.

Included / not included

Priced like a subscription, not a shakedown.

$99per month

Studio

Two seats. CRM, AI studio, web itineraries and print PDFs, sign-up links, guest web portal. Half of Safari Portal's entry price.

$249per month

Agency

Five seats, plus the traveler app: push, announcements, photo stream, group ops, forms, loyalty. Nothing under $400 offers this.

$599+per month

White-label

Your own listing in the app stores, custom domains, API, concierge onboarding. A fraction of the enterprise gates elsewhere.

Draft ladder to pressure-test together; founding tenants ride free during co-development. Kent World Travel is the flagship, not a revenue line.

Never included

  • Per-passenger pricingVamoos charges by the head. Growth should not be a penalty.
  • The add-on mazeNo paid unlock for users, white-label, translation or invoicing.
  • Enterprise gatesNo "contact sales" to learn a price. The ladder is public.
  • WhatsAppAnnouncements with read receipts. No guest left on read.
The name
Albavoy
albavoy.com 路 albavoy.co.za 路 albavoy.app 路 albavoy.travel 路 all open, verified 10 July

Albatross plus voyage: golf's rarest great score and the bird that crosses oceans, in one travel-native word. guest.albavoy.com already reads like a finished product.

Primavoy.com open Merivoya.com open Azuvoy.com open Wayzora.com open
The route

Sign off, and the clock starts.

Phase one48 hours

First logins. CRM, trip builder, the Morocco brief ingested, a branded itinerary live, PDF export, sign-up link. Then we iterate by voice note.

Phase twoWeeks 2 to 4

The traveler app on TestFlight. Push, announcements with read receipts, photo stream, host console. One real trip, end to end.

Phase threeWeeks 4 to 8

Multi-tenant onboarding, billing, white-label tiers, loyalty. First external tenants from your own partner network. Pricing goes live.

Phase fourLater

The AI travel site: a client plans with chat, your team refines and books, one payment. Recommendations come from your own supplier graph.

Pre-departure checklist

Eight answers and we're wheels-up.

Brand assets. Logo, colors, fonts, two of Didi's best brochures, one raw DMC Word brief for the ingestion test.
The page order. Didi writes the definitive brochure structure. The AI follows it, page for page.
Seed trips. Morocco and Thailand/Vietnam 2027, as shown in the meeting. Confirm or swap.
Guest chat. Announcements are one-way with read receipts. Is guest-to-guest chat on at all?
Spiff visibility. Incentive ledger for admins only, or also the agent who owns the club?
Loyalty rules. What earns a tier, which perks are real, and who owns the member data.
Venture terms. Equity and IP, agreed before the first external tenant onboards.
The name. Albavoy, one of the other four, or veto all five and we run another round.
The Twelve Apostles above the Atlantic, from Kent World Travel's gallery
Cape Town
Franschhoek winelands, from Kent World Travel's gallery
Franschhoek
Victoria Falls, from Kent World Travel's gallery
Victoria Falls

Ready when you are.

One tap starts the 48-hour clock. Send the eight answers with it, or after: voice note is fine, screenshot is fine. That is rather the point.

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