Started as a travel blog in 2018 by our Founder, Shastri Darsono.
The name TravelBeib was created from two combined words, Travel and Beib (taken from the word Babe).
Travel means a journey to go from one place to another that will open your eyes and change the way you think. The word Babe, relates to woman or calling in an affectionate way.
Our story is based on Shastri’s journey, who has traveled almost half of the world and lived in more than one country since childhood. Seeing the diversity of life and living with different cultures. Made her appreciate life more when she finally stayed in her hometown Jakarta, Indonesia. Unfortunately, when she lived in the US, none of her schoolmates knew or ever heard of Indonesia. Having that memory stuck in her mind, intrigue her in creating, TravelBeib.com as a source of information for traveling to Indonesia and her way of introducing Indonesia to the world through her lens.
In 2019, we received an email from a client in Malaysia. They wanted us to handle a group trip during their 5 days stay in Bali. Having a working background as an event and trip organizer for the past 10 years, our Founder took this opportunity to provide an exclusive travel experience for the group.
We were so delighted that our client were happy and satisfied with our services, therefore we started to organize private trips until the pandemic strikes the world.
The pandemic paralyzes the tourism industry which implicates lock down across the world. During the global pandemic condition, no one could travel to Indonesia and it gave a significant impact to the Indonesian tourism as well as small business owners across the country. Having the urge to contribute and as a social act of responsibility, Shastri began to produce fabric mask collaborating with local craftsmen in order to help those who had difficulties of having medical mask to use. Surprisingly, her tropical designed fabric mask was a hit and high on demand, which made her sold it to 4 different countries globally.
As a token of gratitude and desire to service the community, 50% of the sales profit was donated to those affected by the pandemic. Following that up, to respond the public requests, she produced more TravelBeib products & named it #TravelBeibSurvivalKit. Ever since, she has work together with painters, artists and small owner enterprises to continue her mission in contributing to the community.
Experiencing our 2020 journey, we continue our contribution to the community by creating TravelBeib Peduli as a donation program for those in need, and affected by the pandemic condition. TravelBeib Peduli aim to help the unfortunate in remote areas across Indonesia, by distributing food and medicines, and orphans whose parents passed away because of Covid19. Not stopping there, TravelBeib Peduli also encourages and assists widows or female merchants being able to resell again their businesses.