Travel brand Mokobara opens 1st physical store, set to create community spaces

Premium travel and lifestyle brand Mokobara has launched its first physical store at Phoenix Marketcity, Whitefield, Bangalore. It is positioned as a brick and mortar retail space that moves beyond transactions and instead builds a community of like-minded people who love travel. 

“Our new store really helps us focus on elevating the customer journey. We want shopping to move from being transactional to an experience that offers real travel insights and expert tips on building the right travel uniform for each customer,” says Apoorv Sharma, Head of Retail at Mokobara.

The brand says the launch of this Bangalore store is only the first of many more and that it plans to open 25 new stores in the next 18 months. Mokobara is also set to open its second retail store in Indiranagar; right in the heart of Bangalore. With a strong online presence built up in a mere three years, Mokobara is now omnichannel and aims to focus on engaging with their community IRL. The idea has been to build a community of like minded travelers and engage with them online. 

“Each Mokobara is thoughtfully designed to breathe magic into your journey in subtle ways. Our retail outlets provide a great opportunity for our community to experience this”, quotes Rumman Rizvi, Head of Brand and Customer Experience at Mokobara. 

“Our retail outlets will serve as an excellent space to experiment with multiple new category launches. Come September, we’ll be foraying into the handbag category. Curating an experience offline only makes it all the more exciting”, says Sangeet Agrawal, Founder at Mokobara.

“Everything we do, from our luggage to travel accessories, is designed to capture the excitement of traveling. When it comes to our design philosophy we always say ‘less but better’. We start out with clean, minimal designs and then knit-pick over the smallest details to see how we can breathe magic into it. Everything is functional. That goes without saying. Everything is designed to solve real travel problems”, says Navin Parwal, Co-Founder and CMO at Mokobara.