Africa’s leading online booking platform, Jovago.com, will incorporate all AccorHotels on the African continent.
Accra, Ghana – Jovago and AccorHotels announced the signing of an innovative partnership to incorporate all AccorHotels established on the African continent on the Jovago platform – Africa’s n°1 online hotel booking website.
The partnership would firstly involve the incorporation of 30 AccorHotels hotels located in 13 countries on the Jovago platform and then, the overall hotels of the Group in Africa.
“AccorHotels is one of the largest players in the hotel industry in Africa. As Africa’s leading hotel booking platform, we are proud to incorporate AccorHotels into our platform in order to provide our African customers with high quality hotels in the key cities of the continent” said Paul Midy CEO Jovago. “This strategic partnership confirms our passion for hospitality and hotel development in Africa.“
The AccorHotels’ portfolio will become a part of Jovago’s catalog of 25,000 hotels in Africa, further enabling customers to book a room directly through the jovago.com website and benefit from a personalized, locally based customer service available 24/7 in several languages.
“The partnership with Jovago highly contributes to establish our distribution strategy in Africa, says Souleymane Khol, VP Sales Marketing Distribution & Revenue Management for Africa & Indian Ocean. AccorHotels is in a continuous process of dynamic innovation aiming to always mix more efficiently the digital experience with our hospitality know-how“.
Jovago launches extranet mobile app for all hotels partners
Jovago.com, has also launched Jovago Extranet App, a mobile application that aims at giving more flexibility and independence to hotel managers. “Jovago wants to give the best international standards of the hotel industry and the latest technologies to all our Hotel partners, we want to democratize these new tools for all our partners and make their job easier” said Paul Midy, CEO of Jovago.
The Android App will enable Hotel managers to confirm new reservations, see and search through all reservations, change rates for any time period and change room availability for any time period. They will also see customer reviews, confirm guest check in and get some unique stats about hotel performance, all this at their convenient time. This will create a better experience for both the hotel and the Jovago customer.
Jovago.com ensures that its inventory of 25,000 hotels in Africa is accessible to customers online, by tapping on today’s technology. For instance, with insightful data provided by the company, a hotel manager will easily know the pricing of his competitors, thus making informed decisions on how to remain competitive.
“Hotels on Jovago benefit from focused local marketing reach in Africa, generating business they could not tap into otherwise. We want to empower these partners to get the best out of working with us,” says Eduard Meyjes, Head of Revenue Management, Jovago. He adds that “Phone communication can be challenging in Africa. With the app, hotels can make fast and reliable changes exactly when they want to. Especially smaller hotels can now benefit from smart tools, that were only available to larger hotel chains before”.
First feedbacks are positive: “It’s always great to be in control or at least have a measure of control on your business. This application is easy to use and helps reduce the issues of double bookings and no-shows. I like it” Said David Donald Okyere (Head of Sales & marketing at Roots Apartment Hotel).
Following the launch of the Extranet mobile application, Jovago.com is now working towards unveiling the Web version of the App, to further improve user experience for potential customers. As a leading online hotel-booking website, Jovago.com is simply a one-stop-shop for hotels when it comes to their online marketing and operations.
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