Founders & Team
The people behind the journey
Revive Escapes grew from people who knew the destinations personally and believed familiar routes could be approached with fresher cultural insight and greater care.
Our story is personal
Built across destinations
The company was founded in 2021 by Sara Binmahfoodh, a Saudi travel professional, together with experienced destination specialists from Egypt, Oman and Uzbekistan. The team first operated across those markets for a specialist B2B audience, combining local knowledge with an understanding of high-end client care.
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Founder
Sara Omar Binmahfoodh
Saudi Arabia
Sara is a Saudi tourism and operations professional with more than 14 years of experience across destination management, travel logistics, MICE, events, government relations and high-level guest operations. She founded Revive Escapes in 2021 around the belief that established routes can feel new when they are shaped with local cultural knowledge, personal attention and thoughtful comfort.
Her background includes tour and operational leadership, itinerary planning, supplier coordination, media-production logistics and the delivery of travel programmes for discerning and VVIP guests. She is a licensed tour guide for Historic Jeddah and holds a bachelor's degree in International Management from King Abdulaziz University.
Egypt Destination Lead
Mona Hamdy
Egypt
Mona brings more than 15 years of experience in Egypt's travel sector. She developed her expertise with a MICE company before helping establish the Egypt business for Revive Escapes, combining operational knowledge with an understanding of groups, events and destination delivery.
Luxury Resorts Specialist
Irfan Shal
Oman
Irfan has more than 15 years of experience serving the luxury travel segment. His work has focused on clients choosing resort journeys across Oman, the UAE and Zanzibar, bringing practical resort knowledge and attentive client care to Revive Escapes.
Uzbekistan and Central Asia Lead
Timor Aziz
Uzbekistan
Timor brings more than 15 years of experience in inbound leisure travel. Before joining Revive Escapes to establish its Uzbekistan and Central Asia business unit, he worked with one of Uzbekistan's largest travel companies, managing incoming leisure groups and developing distinctive regional itineraries.
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