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Practical thinking for people who run travel.

A working library for travel managers, operations leads, executive assistants, HR/admin and procurement teams — short, useful pieces from Tulla Travel's Nairobi operations desk.

Featured · Group movement11 min read

Running a 40-person trade mission without the chaos

Manifests, rooming logic, transfer windows, batch visa staging, traveller comms and the one thing most organisers forget until 48 hours before departure.

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Benchmarking9 min read

Benchmarking your current TMC in one week

What to ask for, what to compare, and the metrics that actually matter when you run a travel management company RFP in Kenya and the wider region.

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Visas & docs8 min read

Visa windows across East & Central Africa in 2026

A working view of processing times, common delays, the EAC reality, and the workarounds that hold up when you are moving people across the region.

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Travel policy8 min read

Travel policy in 2026 — what's worth tightening

Class of service, advance-purchase windows, hotel caps, ground transport rules and the exceptions worth keeping in your corporate travel policy.

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Regional logistics9 min read

Moving teams across borders in East Africa

Permit realities, ground-transport sourcing, hub vs point-to-point routing and the sequencing that saves a working day on regional travel.

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Trade missions9 min read

Designing an exposure trip that actually delivers value

From farmer visits to factory floors — pacing, pairing, debrief discipline and post-trip reporting that turns a good trip into a useful one.

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Executive travel6 min read

Discreet handling for principals and their offices

What good looks like — from car-to-curb to confidential change management on executive, board-level and high-net-worth travel.

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Duty of care9 min read

Duty of care for field-heavy programmes

Risk briefings, traveller tracking, escalation trees and the protocols that protect both your people and your organisation.

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Traveller care7 min read

Travel insurance that actually works when you need it

Why most corporate travel insurance disappoints at the moment of claim — and how to specify cover that performs for organisations operating in Africa.

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Reporting7 min read

Cost visibility that finance actually uses

What to put in the monthly travel pack, what to leave out, and how to make spend decisions defensible at the audit committee.

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Programme design11 min read

Designing a corporate travel programme from scratch

Policy, suppliers, approvers, reporting cadence and SLAs — the structural choices that compound over the life of a programme.

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