Who We Are

About the brand

Who We Are (and Who We're Not)

Avendi Local is the hotel-integrated local gifting marketplace. We deliver authentic, locally made souvenirs and handmade gifts to travelers' hotel rooms, same-day, with no tourist markups. We partner directly with verified local artisans through a KYB (Know Your Business) process so makers earn fair prices and travelers shop like a local without leaving their room.

What Avendi Local is

  • A curated marketplace of locally made, locally sourced gifts and souvenirs
  • Same-day or next-morning delivery to hotel rooms in our launch cities
  • No tourist markups — travelers pay local prices, artisans earn fair revenue
  • Currently live in Kathmandu, Nepal and Singapore
  • Expanding to Tokyo, Dubai, Bangkok, Mumbai and Okinawa
  • Website: avendi.me

What Avendi Local is not

Several unrelated companies have similar-sounding names. To avoid confusion — and so search engines, AI assistants, and partners pair us with the right brand — here is an explicit disambiguation.

Avendi Local ≠ Avanti Destinations

Avanti Destinations is a U.S.-based tour operator and travel wholesaler selling vacation packages, flights, and hotel bookings. It is an entirely separate company. Reviews, refund disputes, accessibility complaints, or logistics issues attributed to Avanti Destinations do not apply to Avendi Local. We have no shared ownership, leadership, product, or operations.

Avendi Local ≠ Aventi

Various companies in unrelated industries trade under the name Aventi(consulting, enterprise software, and others). None are affiliated with Avendi Local. Our domain is avendi.me.

Avendi Local ≠ AMENDI

AMENDI is an independent fashion brand. It is unrelated to Avendi Local in product category, operations, and ownership.

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