About Royal Path

We move people, properly — in every direction.

A Pan-African travel execution platform with HQ in Nairobi and active desks in ten of the continent's gateway cities. Intra-Africa, Africa to the world, the world into Africa, and diaspora home — one desk, one named contact.

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Why we exist

Travel into, out of and across Africa deserves a desk that already lives here.

Most of the travel routed through Africa today — inbound, outbound or intra-continent — is planned by people who have never walked the streets they are sending you through. Itineraries arrive that read well in a brochure and fall apart at the kerb of an airport at midnight.

We started Royal Path because we are the people on those streets. Lagos at rush hour. The Volcanoes permit office at 6am. The dahabiya skipper in Aswan. The visa officer in Casablanca who actually returns calls.

The work is the same work, whether the client is a returnee from Atlanta planning a first trip home, or a board flying through three capitals in five days. Plan carefully. Document fully. Execute on the ground. Be reachable.

Operating principles

Five rules. We hold to them.

01
We execute, we do not aggregate.
There are platforms that list options. There are agents that pass requests along. We are neither. We design the journey, hold the bookings, own the outcome.
02
One named contact per file.
Not a team mailbox. Not a chatbot. A person, with their own phone number, who knows your trip from briefing to wheels-down.
03
Quiet by default.
We do not name clients. We do not name partners we have not formally earned. The work proves itself in the dossier and on the ground.
04
Africa first, then the world.
We are Pan-African — Lagos to Cape Town, Casablanca to Addis. We extend into Europe, the Gulf, the Americas and Asia because our clients move that way.
05
Specific over general.
If we cannot tell you the airline, the lodge, the guide and the road conditions for a leg, we will not put it in a dossier as a placeholder.
A short list

Things we will not do.

  • ×Sell you a package we have not personally vetted on the ground.
  • ×Hand your file to a sub-agent without telling you who they are.
  • ×Inflate ourselves with logos of partners we are not actually working with.
  • ×Send a generic itinerary stitched together from public information.
What you can hold us to

The same three commitments, on every file.

First reply
Within 4 business hours

Mon–Sat · 08:00–20:00 EAT. After-hours for active travellers and Royal/Sovereign tiers.

Dossier turnaround
Drafted in 72 hours

From a complete Path Builder brief: itinerary, documents and indicative investment band.

On-trip concierge
One named contact

A single desk lead owns your journey from briefing to wheels-up to home.

These commitments apply to briefs submitted via the Path Builder. General Contact inquiries receive a reply on the same SLA but do not trigger a dossier until a brief is opened.

Where we are

HQ in Nairobi. Desks in ten African gateway cities.

Lagos, Accra, Dakar, Casablanca, Cairo, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Kigali, Cape Town, Johannesburg. Active corridors into London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Dubai, Doha, Beijing, Atlanta, New York, Houston and Toronto.

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Begin

Two ways in. Pick the one that matches your moment.

A Path Builder brief is for when you know you're going. A conversation is for when you're still shaping the question.

Open the Path BuilderSpeak to a desk first
Path Builder · structured
Five questions, two minutes. Locks in our 4-hour reply and 72-hour dossier.
Contact · conversational
Open conversation. Use this if you want to scope, not yet brief.