the story
Built inside tourism.
Before Studio Voyage built for travel operators, Henri spent years guiding guests, growing an outdoor company and learning tourism inside his family's activity businesses.
The arc
Henri grew up in Mauritius in a family of tourism operators. His father ran an undersea-walking business, and his brothers operated scuba-diving centres. He began working alongside them as a teenager. This was where he learned the ropes of tourism, from welcoming guests and coordinating teams to selling an experience and delivering it well.
In 2014, Henri partnered with Yan de Maroussem, who was then working as a hiking guide. Henri became the third guide to lead guests on Le Morne Brabant. Alongside guiding, he put much of his energy into the digital platforms, commercial agreements and operating structure needed to take the activity further.
The business grew quickly. Today, Yanature has a team of twenty, operates more than twenty different activities each week and has built an online community of more than sixty thousand people. It has grown steadily since its early years and is now one of Mauritius's established outdoor tourism operators.
The visibility created through that work also helped bring hiking and outdoor experiences into the way more travellers discover Mauritius online. Henri does not claim to have created that movement alone. He is proud to have contributed to it.
Studio Voyage carries that experience forward. Henri and Victoria work with travel businesses with an operator's understanding of guests, distribution, bookings, operations and growth. The studio builds the systems they wish every tourism business could rely on.
The record
Family tourism businesses
Mauritius · the early years
Where the work began
Henri grew up around his father's undersea-walking business and the scuba-diving centres operated by his brothers. Working alongside them as a teenager taught him how tourism works long before he built software for it.
Fishing Mauritius
Mauritius · 2014
The first client site
Built for a Mauritian fishing charter in 2014, the same year trekkingmauritius.com went online. Building for tourism clients and operating travel businesses have run side by side ever since.
Yanature · trekkingmauritius.com
Mauritius · 2014 → today
Guided, built and operated
Henri partnered with hiking guide Yan de Maroussem in 2014 and became the third guide to lead guests on Le Morne Brabant. He developed the digital platforms and commercial relationships that helped the activity grow. Yanature now has a team of twenty, runs more than twenty different activities each week and has built an online community of more than sixty thousand people.
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New Zealand
A tourism marketplace, built from scratch
A marketplace for tourism experiences in New Zealand, bringing listings, operators and bookings into one product. It explored the same travel problems Studio Voyage continues to work on today.
Escape Society
Worldwide
A travel agency, built and run
Mountain-biking trips around the world, sold through a platform built for the agency. The work brought travel design, content, sales and technology together.
Andeor
Mauritius · today
A connected travel platform
A traveller marketplace, travel agency, partner workspace and operating system built as one connected platform. It turns more than a decade of tourism experience into tools for guests, partners and the team behind the journey.
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