GoZayaan

About GoZayaan

GoZayaan is a travel-tech company offering flights, hotels, bus tickets, and tour packages across Bangladesh and Pakistan, built by a founder who had already built and exited one successful company before starting it. Ridwan Hafiz founded GoZayaan in 2017, an unusual position of prior entrepreneurial success for a Bangladeshi travel-tech founder.

His path into travel booking ran through digital marketing rather than the travel industry itself.

An Engineer Who Built an Agency First

Ridwan Hafiz earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, studying there from 2004 to 2009. Before graduating into a purely technical career, he had already co-founded Analyzen in August 2008, a venture that would become Bangladesh's first dedicated digital marketing agency.

He also spent time in corporate telecom roles, working in corporate sales at Qubee from 2010 to 2012 and earlier at Banglalion Communications, experience that ran alongside his early work building Analyzen. That parallel track, corporate sales by day and agency-building on the side, gave him a practical read on how Bangladeshi businesses actually bought marketing and technology services.

Scaling Analyzen Without Outside Funding

Ridwan Hafiz grew Analyzen from a small startup into a business generating $10 to 12 million in annual revenue, entirely without external funding. That bootstrapped growth gave him direct experience scaling a Bangladeshi company purely on operating cash flow, a discipline he carried into his next venture.

He eventually exited Analyzen to focus fully on a new idea: fixing how Bangladeshis booked travel, a problem he had likely encountered indirectly through Analyzen's own client relationships in Bangladesh's consumer market. Walking away from a business generating eight figures in annual revenue, rather than running it indefinitely, freed him to commit fully to a category he had no prior operating experience in.

Founding GoZayaan

Ridwan Hafiz founded GoZayaan in 2017, building a platform that let users book flights, hotels, bus tickets, and tour packages through a single tech-enabled service. The company set out to replace the fragmented, largely offline travel agency model that had dominated Bangladesh's travel booking market up to that point, one built around informal agents rather than a unified digital experience.

GoZayaan has since expanded beyond Bangladesh into Pakistan, giving it a combined addressable market of more than 400 million people across both countries, a cross-border expansion uncommon among Bangladeshi travel-tech startups, most of which have stayed focused on the domestic market alone.

Building More Than a Booking Platform

Beyond flight and hotel bookings, Ridwan Hafiz has pushed GoZayaan into adjacent services, including a migrant worker remittance platform aimed at Bangladeshi workers abroad. That expansion reflects a broader ambition to serve the full range of travel and cross-border financial needs of Bangladeshi and Pakistani customers, not just leisure bookings.

Extending into remittances put GoZayaan in more direct contact with the financial lives of its customers, a natural extension for a company already handling significant cross-border payment flows through travel bookings, and one that positions GoZayaan closer to the fintech-enabled travel category than a pure booking engine.

Where GoZayaan Stands Today

Ridwan Hafiz continues to lead GoZayaan's growth across both markets, applying the bootstrapped scaling discipline he built at Analyzen to a much larger, venture-backed travel business. Employee reviews reflect that momentum, with GoZayaan rating among the more positive workplaces found across this entire directory.

That combination, a founder who had already proven he could scale a company without outside capital before raising venture funding for his second, has shaped how deliberately GoZayaan has expanded into new markets and adjacent services rather than growing purely on funding alone.

Products

GoZayaan's platform centers on travel booking infrastructure rather than a single packaged product.

Flight and Hotel Booking is GoZayaan's core service, letting users book travel across Bangladesh and Pakistan through a single tech-enabled platform.

Bus Tickets and Tour Packages extend the platform beyond air travel, covering a broader range of domestic and regional travel needs.

Migrant Worker Remittance Platform applies GoZayaan's cross-border infrastructure to financial services for Bangladeshi workers abroad, extending the company beyond travel booking alone.

Across flight and hotel bookings, bus tickets, tour packages, and its remittance platform, GoZayaan's offerings reflect the cross-border, tech-enabled strategy that has defined the company since its 2017 founding, now serving customers across Bangladesh and Pakistan.