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About Us

 

Executive Summary

The global business travel trends has seen a shift where Companies no longer seek the conventional air tickets but demand a ‘single stop shop’ approach to their travel management. Essentially companies globally are now seeking a wholesome provision of air tickets as well as related services from a single service provider. This has seen the emergence of Travel Management Companies replacing Travel Agents who were conventionally limited to issuance of air tickets.

In line with this Global Trend, Sun Sea & Sand Safaris (SS & SS) has strategically placed herself as a full house of Travel Services. Our approach seeks to provide convenience to our Corporate Clients in an efficient manner at a single stop. Our suites of Travel Solutions include; Flight/ Travel Booking Services, Hotel Booking, Car Hire and Rental Services, Holidays & Safaris/ Tours solutions.

SS & SS is well equipped to offer the above suite of services through our well experienced team, technological innovation and global partnerships. Our diversity in service provision provides our clients with a single stop platform and the necessary depth to choose from. Our deliberate initiative of seeking tested global travel solutions and repackaging them for domestic and regional travel needs sets us apart from the park. This coupled by our promise to offer
exceptional and consistent quality service delivery gives us the leverage to always surpass our client’s expectations.

Who We Are

Sun Sea & Sand Safaris (SS&SS) is a Kenyan International Travel Management Company focused on exclusively offering our Corporate Clients Global Travel Solutions at a Domestic, Regional and international Level. Our team and infrastructural investment bring a wealth of experience and reliability to our clients in our quest to provide Global Travel Solutions.

Our extensive list of services includes the following;

  • Flight/ Travel Booking Services
  • Hotel Booking
  • Car Hire and Rental Services
  • Holidays & Safaris / Tours solutions
  • Cruises
  • 24-hour emergency support services
  • Passport & Visa Services
  • Business Conferences logistics service – organized for you from A – Z
  • Airport transfer services including door to door transfers.
  • Frequent Flyer management
  • Team building logistics services – organized for you from A – Z
  • Trade Fair packages
  • Train trips and rail tickets, locally and internationally
  • Travel insurance – corporate and leisure Voyager points for foreign exchange purchases

Our head office is located at Muhuri Road, Nairobi Kenya. This is the office that renders services to all our clients in Kenya and East Africa. We further have global partnerships that help us extend services in West African, South African, Europe, Middle East and Asian Markets. SS&SS partners with over 5 travel agencies throughout, Australia, Europe, New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria.

 

SS & SS Travel Solutions

SS&SS prides in offering global travel solutions to relevant local travel needs by combining the virtues of personalized service and benefits of a corporate travel management company with the efficiency and value for money.

An overview of our approach in service delivery is summarized as follows;

  • A ‘Single Stop Shop’ for all your travel management needs
  • Service availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
  • Monitoring of our service through service surveys and reviews
  • Management reports and analysis.
  • E-shots to keep clients informed of industry trends and special offers

We further ease accessibility by our clients to our services through a number of ways namely by
way of phone, email, fax or via our Online Booking form.

Our ‘Single Stop Shop’ capabilities require a dedicated team of specialists who we assign to our
clients hence enhancing our personalized service solution.

Travel & Air Ticketing Solutions

SS&SS offers a ‘Single Stop Shop’ suite of travel services from a dedicated team of specialists per client hence achieving extremely personalized services. This in essence makes SS&SS a team of travel specialists available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our dedicated Team of Specialists is responsible for satisfying our client’s travel needs, including:

  • Booking domestic and international flights
  • Organizing group travel and conferences
  • Booking and confirming accommodation and car hire
  • Issuing travel insurance
  • Providing visa assistance
  • In-depth knowledge and adherence of travelers’ requirements and preferences
  • Pro-activeness in sourcing the best fare/solution by options
  • Helping with other auxiliary Travel services. Eg train travel, transfers, cruises and holiday packages
  • 2-hour response to all travel requests received
  • Provide accurate and reliable service
  • Provide detailed quarterly reporting and analysis on travel spend (down to department level if required) and provide recommendations on future policy refinement and leveraging supplier networks for potential savings.

Hotel Booking & Holiday Solutions

SS & SS also operates its own in-house specialist Hotel / Leisure department from our Head office. This department handles all manner of inbound and overseas tours, safaris, excursions, local and international hotel accommodation, and related ground handling in the country of destination.

Our Unbeatable promise to our customers is that we will find them the best possible holiday deal, and beat any quote provided by our competitors (conditions apply). We take clients requirements and personalize a suitable tour package that befits the client’s budget and above all value for money. Our pricing structure and supply arrangements are designed to support an ultra-competitive leisure travel market, backed by a personalized, corporate style service arrangement.

Worldwide Hotel Programs

Through our Global Partners, SS & SS has access to global Hotel Directories which enable us offer our clients specially negotiated, lower-than-corporate rates at fine hotel properties in major cities around the world. These offers are available to clients traveling on either for business or for pleasure.

Exclusives Hotel Programs

In most cases, Kenyan Blue chip companies are directly offered discounted rates by the hotels. SS & SS is further willing to run the booking operations for our clients using the same rates hence enhancing our ‘Single Stop Shop’ policy.

Executive Solutions

In most cases our clients require groups of staff to travel to particular meetings or events. SS & SS operates its own groups department from our Head Office. Subject to the size and complexity of the group movement, the client’s nominated travel team will receive personalized assistance throughout the planning and travel period including service recovery with 3rd party service providers (Hotels/Airlines).

Business Conferences logistics service (Meetings, conferences, events and incentives) are managed by our SS & SS Executive Groups department to ensure that a high degree of professionalism and expertise is delivered. Since inception SS & SS Executive Groups has built a solid reputation for tailoring client specific projects which range in size from twelve attendees in a board room environment to over 2,000 delegates at an overseas international conference.

Car Hire / Rental Services

SS & SS offers chauffeured ground transportation both in Kenya and Internationally. Through our Hotel and Holiday’s team, SS & SS has developed a worldwide network to bring clients the highest quality service possible in ground transportation.

SS & SS uses the following vehicles in our chauffeur services; sedans, Executive VIP Mercedes/BMW’s, vans, minibuses, and motor coaches to provide service for airport pick-ups and drop-offs, corporate transfers, inter-office transfers, business and association meetings, conventions, road shows, promotional tours, and special events. Unlike traditional chauffeur service providers, SS & SS delivers consistent, superior service by utilizing a comprehensive service model and technology enabled quality control system.

SS & SS adds value through competitive prices, without sacrificing quality. Our experience and
track record ensure reputable firms rely on us to provide this service.

Our fleet consists of:

  • 4 x 4 Toyota Prado’s
  • 4 x 4 Toyota Landcruiser’s
  • Toyota Rav 4’s
  • Mercedes Benz
  • Saloon Cars with air conditioning (NZE’s, Allion’s, Premio’s etc.)
  • Tour vans & Landcruiser’s with roof hatch for easier game viewing while on safari

Visa Management

At the time of air ticket quotations, SS & SS will proactively flag any visa requirements to our clients, taking on the ownership and responsibility for this process. SS & SS constantly checks with various Embassies in order to be updated on visa requirements and processing solutions.

Customer Service Management

SS & SS fully acknowledges the business principle of providing solutions to clients at a personalized level other than offering blanket solutions. This approach has seen SS & SS put a lot of emphasis in developing a suitable platform of understanding our clients better as well as relating well with them through feedback mechanism that fosters our service improvement.

Our Clients attest to our keen focus on customer service deliverables in our service delivery. In deed this has been the driving force behind which SS&SS has emerged as a reputable customer focused Travel Management Company.

We have a dedicated team that runs this department with some of their key areas including;

  • Establish a reliable feedback mechanism both from the individual travelers as well as from the Travel bookers in order to ensure that all matters pertaining to our service delivery are promptly identified and addressed in a timely and exhaustive manner.
  • Conduct regular Training of Travel bookers which highly impacts on them information on specific carriers.
  • Regular and structured contact where we are able to get weekly feedback from travelers and travel bookers on our service levels.
  • Derive a measurement mechanism on overall service provision through regular intervals.
  • Constantly sent industry updates, e-news and travel alerts on the going on in travel.
  • Measurement and reporting on customer satisfaction.
  • Communications: SS & SS updates our customers with the latest travel industry news via regular e-shots as well as Social media platforms. The e-shots contain the latest SS & SS news, as well as travel industry updates, and the latest travel deals from SS & SS Hotel & Holiday. The e-shots delivers relevant content to today’s business traveler, focusing on topics and issues such as domestic and international travel, management topics such as leadership, as well as leisure travel for that much needed travel break.

Team of Specialists

 

SS & SS prides herself with having a strong team of specialists well versed in respective areas of our key service offering. The back bone of our emergence as a reputable Travel Management Company in Kenya is greatly owed to this team at SS & SS.

Please find below brief profile of our Key Management Team:

 

VIRGINIA KIMANI – MANAGING DIRECTOR

Virginia is the leader and driving force that defines the depth and diversity of SS&SS. Virginia is the force behind our captivating Holiday packages and has a strong background in the field having worked with major industry players in Kenya among them, CTM – Corporate Travel Management as a Tours Manager, FCm Travel Solutions (Charleston Travel Ltd) as a Senior Tours Consultant, Exotic Expeditions Ltd as a Reservations Manager and Bridges Car Rental.

She holds a Diploma in Tourism & Travel Management from Nairobi Aviation College. Her persona makes her a professional whom clients like to entrust their holiday plans with and on this she has not disappointed any over the years. She is an all rounded Travel Expert with in-depth knowledge in Gulliver’s Travel Association and Amadeus booking platforms.

Her wealth of experience has enabled her to rise through the ranks to become a respectable figure in the Kenyan Travel Industry.