About us
We are travel agents who write software.
We know the agency desk because we work at it every day, and we know the software because we write it ourselves. Orbis sits in between: the tool we wished we had from our very first client.
Behind Orbis is a small, hands-on team led by Davide Zampognaro: web development, product and the travel trade in the same room. When you write to us, you talk to the people who design and build it, not a call centre.
We work with independent agencies, networks and Italian tour operators. We believe technology should disappear behind the trip: your client sees your agency, not us.
Born at TriWo
Before it was software, Orbis was our own problem.
TriWo is a travel agency in Rome. Every day we sell trips, answer clients and handle the unexpected. Orbis is the tool we were missing, built at the agency desk, not in a meeting room.
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The agency
Tailor-made trips for families, couples and groups. Itineraries in PDF, vouchers by email and a WhatsApp chat for every departure.
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The problem
Messages at all hours, lost documents, schedule changes to pass on one by one. The more trips we sold, the less time we had to sell more.
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The prototype
A first web app for our clients: itinerary, flight and documents in one link. Messages dropped from the first month.
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Orbis
We rebuilt everything so it works for any agency: your brand, your clients, your data.
“We used every Orbis feature ourselves first, with our clients, on our trips.”
How we work
Four promises to agencies.
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The client is yours
The web app carries your brand, not ours. The data stays yours and you can export it any time.
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Talk to the builders
No call centre: you write to the people who design and build Orbis, on WhatsApp too.
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Simple first
If a feature needs a manual, we rethink it. The client opens a link, the agent works as usual.
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Europe and GDPR
Servers in Frankfurt, a DPA with every agency, no tracking of travellers.
The people
A small team, close to agencies.
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Davide Zampognaro
Founder · product and engineering
Web developer and owner of TriWo. He designs and builds Orbis, and uses it every day with the agency’s travellers.
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TriWo
Travel agency · Rome
The agency where Orbis was born and is put to the test: every new feature runs on our trips first.
Why Orbis
A Latin name for a single idea: the world, and the road around it.
In Latin, orbis is the circle, the disc, the wheel. From it the Romans named the known world orbis terrarum, the “circle of lands”. We chose this word because it holds together everything we do.
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Orbis terrarum
the world
That is what the Romans called the inhabited earth. Agrippa had a great map of it painted in Rome and, fifteen centuries later, Ortelius titled the first modern atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570). Every trip you sell is a piece of that map.
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Orbita
the path
The same root gives us orbit: originally the rut a wheel leaves on the road. It is the trajectory of the trip, stop after stop, which Orbis makes visible on your client’s phone.
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Orbis
the circle
A trip is a circle that closes: you leave, you live it, you come home. Orbis follows the whole loop, from the invitation and the packing reminder to the survey after the return.
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Ex veteri orbis, novus exoritur
the motto
From the old world, a new one rises. The travel agent’s craft is old and precious: we give it new tools without changing its soul.
Want to see how we use it?
We’ll show you a real TriWo trip, from quote to return, in twenty minutes.
Become a founding agency.
A pilot programme for the first ten agencies. In return we ask for feedback every two weeks and, if you’re happy, a testimonial.
Time left
–days –hours –minutes
- places available
- 10
- of pilot, setup included
- 3 months
- direct support from the people building Orbis
- 1:1
- last day to join
- 15/11