About Us
Build for a Home-Based Travel Planners who Refuse to Stay Small
Pagoda Travel isn't another booking site that treats you like just another affiliate. It's a business tool built for modern, independent travel professionals who want to own their success, not be a small cog in someone else's machine.
Save 75% of Your Itinerary-Building Time
We know many of you are running your Travel business from your kitchen table, juggling kids and household responsibilities while crafting incredible experiences for your clients. You're not part of some big brick-and-mortar agency — you're an independent professional with enormous potential.
This page will save you hours every week. What follows is why we built Pagoda Travel specifically for home-based agents like you, the problems it solves, and how it gives you back at least one full day weekly to focus on what matters: growing YOUR brand and spending time with your family.
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Our Story
From Kitchen Table Frustration to Solution
With over 20 years in the travel industry, we launched a local company inJapan in 2024 to bridge the gap between individual U.S. travel agents and Japanese tour guides. It didn't take long to see the same frustrations on both sides — everyone still operating as if it were 1995.
Tour guides were overwhelmed with dead-end requests, spending hours crafting proposals that never got a response.
Home-based travel agents were drowning in what we call "Planning Purgatory" — juggling endless email chains, scattered spreadsheets, coordinating across time zones from their home offices, battling unresponsive DMCs, navigating 'lost-in-translation' issues, and facing pricing that made booking feel like chasing unicorns.
All while trying to balance family life and build something meaningful.
We began by pre-qualifying agents for guides and vetting guides for agents — but quickly realized that manual fixes could only go so far.
The industry didn't need a band-aid; it needed open-heart surgery.
That's why we created the world's first federated B2B marketplace for independent travel professionals who refuse to keep planning like it's 1995 and refuse to stay invisible in the shadows of big agencies.
Your Independence, Your Brand, Your Success
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Our Mission
Save Your Time
Build YOUR brand. Transform your business from wherever you call your office.
We're here to help home-based travel professionals establish and maintain relationships with vetted DMCs and local experts — without sacrificing the independence that made you start your own business in the first place.
The Problem We Solved
Especially for Home-Based Agents
Custom itineraries shouldn't be your biggest time drain, especially when you're managing everything yourself from home. Yet most independent agents lose hours daily to:
- Endless email chains that eat into family time
- Scattered spreadsheets across multiple devices
- Multiple unresponsive suppliers who don't take solo agents seriously
- Fragmented communications that require a PhD to track
- Feeling invisible while big agencies get all the attention
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Your Brand
Your Independence
You're not renting space in someone else's marketplace, you're building your own.
Unlike booking sites that steal your clients, dilute your brand, or treat you like just another number, Pagoda empowers you to create tailor-made experiences under YOUR name, with your suppliers, controlling every client.
Built for Independent Professionals
What is a Federated Marketplace?
Think of it like this: most booking platforms are like shopping malls where the mall owner controls everything — your storefront, your customers, your data, even your prices. You're just another small cog in their machine.
A federated marketplace is different. It's more like a 'neighborhood' where independent business owners work together. Japan might be one neighborhood, Italy another, and so on...
With Pagoda Travel you:
Own your relationships: Your suppliers stay YOUR suppliers, your clients stay YOUR clients.
Control your data: No one else can access or use your business information.
Set your rules: Work the way YOU want to work, not how a platformforces you to Build YOUR brand — Not theirs, not some big agency's — YOURS.
You get the benefits of a big marketplace without givingup ownership of what matters most — your independence and your brand.
Your Brand, Your Platform
Your domain. Your logo. Your colors. You don't rent space — you own your marketplace.
Your Time, Maximized
Replace endless email chains with real-time collaboration
Upload your client's wishlist and let multiple guides work on it
Deliver professional itineraries in days, not weeks
One unified platform for everything — no more juggling multiple tools
More time for family AND business growth
Your Network, Your Control
Invite your own trusted suppliers while accessing our vetted network
Seamlessly collaborate across different networks and expand your reach
Never give up control of your supplier relationships or business rules
Work with partners who respect independent agents
Two Solutions, One Goal: Your Success
For those considering the $49 monthly White-Label upgrade, here's what you need to understand: this isn't just about Japan.
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Pagoda Foundation
Perfect for getting started and testing the waters. Full marketplace access to create custom itineraries, communicate with partners, and build experiences — zero monthly fees, no hidden costs.
Free
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Pagoda Pro
Your own branded marketplace AND professional website. Invite global suppliers to your personalized platform with your logo, colors, and domain. Build the independent brand you deserve.
$49
/Per month
Heading Getting Started is Simple
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Try for free
Explore our Core Product risk-free from your home office.
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upgrade seamlessly
Import existing suppliers to White Label when you're ready.
3
ongoing support
Free tech support because we know you're managing everything yourself
More Than Just Time Savings
Professional itineraries delivered in days, not weeks
Access to vetted local guides with peer reviews you can trust
Authentic, off-the-beaten-path that set you apart from cookie-cutter big agencies
75% less time on itinerary creation (hello, work-life balance!)
Your brand front and center with every client — no more beinginvisible
Stronger relationships with both clients and local partners working together
Ready to Stop Being a Small Cog and Start Building Your Brand?
You’re juggling this business from your kitchen table, many of you are even raising kids, running a household, and trying to build something meaningful. You're incredibly talented with enormous potential — but you don't have to work harder, you can work smarter.
You have the power to build something that's entirely yours. Your ownbrand. Your own client relationships. Your own success story.
Join the home-based travel professionals pioneering the future of bespoketravel. The right tools don't just save time — they transform independentbusinesses.
See what's possible when you have the right platform behind you, not above you.
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