Playing host to a select media last Friday at Sabo, Yaba, the Managing Director of Jumia Travel, Kushal Dutta, has disclosed that the foremost online travel agency records double digit growth on a monthly basis. Explaining the company’s achievement, Dutta adds that Jumia Travel has grown 4,000 times from where it started, saying the growth…
One of Africa’s leading online travel agency, Jumia Travel, has announced more properties, hitting 300,000 hotels across the world and 30,000 in Africa. Jumia Travel is further solidifying its global presence in the hotel, travel, and tourism ecosystem, unveiling new continental and international destinations. The company has registered an inventory of more than 30,000 hotels…
Vice President of Jumia Travel Nigeria, Omolara Adagunodo, has stated that harnessing big data properly and improving emotional intelligence will help to personalize the African traveller’s experience through technology. She made the remark at one of the panel discussions hosted by Afro Tourism at this year’s Social Media Week in Lagos. She pointed out that…
Jumia Travel has announced the unveiling of its Flights Services for travelers, a major move to boost its service offerings. This service is part of the broader programme to create a one stop travel shop providing accommodation, packages, and flights all on the same platform, in a bid to streamline travel in Africa. The number…
Following the remarkable 2016 Black Friday campaign that beat all-times sales record of + 30% gross bookings a day, Jumia Travel is back in the deals business with a new campaign dubbed “Travel Wednesday” running every Wednesday on the company’s official website. The promotions, also called “Dream Deals” consist of great discounts on top hotels…
Jumia Travel has once again cemented its position as the leading hotel booking portal in Nigeria after winning the Hotel Booking Portal of the Year Award at the Nigeria Technology Awards held last weekend at the City Mall, Onikan Lagos. Other nominees for the category included Hotels.ng and Hotel NowNow. The Nigeria Technology Awards is…
Jumia Travel, Africa’s leading online hotel-booking company, has officially launched the web version of the Extranet App, an application that aims to give more flexibility and independence to hotel managers. Jumia Travel is seeking to further empower its hotel partners across all markets with top-notch technology by unveiling the Web Extranet, a web version of…
The International Monetary Funds, IMF, predicted in 2015 that Nigeria’s economy will slide into a recession in 2016 by 1.8 per cent. The forecast indicated that our economy will grow at a much slower pace than South Africa’s. Months after the prediction, truly Nigeria slipped into a recession. Everywhere around the world, recession is one…
The Nigerian entertainment industry is growing at an unstoppable rate. We unarguably have the best talents in the whole of Africa; limiting us to the shores of Nigeria is a disservice. In no time, our entertainers will start earning as much as – if not more than – their counterparts in developed countries. At least,…
Nigeria’s tourism and hospitality industry might overtake the downstream sector by 2021 if the recently launched African Union (AU) passport is adopted by the country’s legislators. This is according to Kushal Dutta, the managing director of Africa’s number one hotel booking portal Jumia Travel Nigeria, who further said the Pan-African Passport will allow free movement…