Online travel booking company Travelbeta.com has officially launched and aims to convert millions of Nigeria’s offline booking customers to online customers.
In the last twelve months, Nigeria has recorded approximately 15 million travel bookings. International flights accounted for nine million of those bookings and only a meagre 300,000 of that total may have been booked through online travel agencies.
Travelbeta.com (‘beta’ pronounced as pidgin English for ‘better’) aims to significantly blow up the online booking market through its superior customer experience delivery, provision of the cheapest travel rates in the country, 95% success-rate visa advisory services to destinations like Dubai, London or Cape Town and world-class technology matched only by Telecommunication companies in Nigeria.
The company is supported by Amadeus and IATA, and provides bookings to over 300,000 hotels worldwide including over 1000 Nigerian hotels and flights to 900 destinations worldwide.
The Travelbeta.com founding team is made up of veterans in the online booking and technology space. Its Chief Commercial Officer, Mr. Onyeka Akumah is an experienced marketing head who has worked as the marketing head of major online businesses in Nigeria including Jumia, Konga and online travel agency Wakanow. Also part of the team is Mr. Wole Ayorinde, Travelbeta.com’s Chief Technology Officer who spoke at the launch and has over 13 years experience in technology management with many start-ups in Silicon Valley. The Operations Manager is Mr. David Asuku, a veteran and pioneer of several products in the local travel business. He has over 15 years experience in the Nigerian travel industry and was involved in the start-up and management of several travel companies including Wakanow and Holloway Travels.
Speaking at the launch which held at the company’s Lekki office, Mr. Onyeka Akumah explained that the company has the backing of Nigerian investors who are willing to grow the business for as long as it takes them to establish Travelbeta.com as the premium online travel destination management company in this region.
“Our promise to every customer who uses Travelbeta.com is that you will get the best of professionalism from our well-trained team of customer travel consultants who will provide Nigerians with all the information they need about booking smarter when they travel while making available unbeatable travel fares especially in this season,’’ he said. Mr. Akumah concluded by telling the press that Travelbeta.com is ready to march the best travel offers available to Nigerians today only if they handle their bookings online or call their customer service desk.
Finally, a demonstration of the website was done for the media guests to learn how to compare prices and pick the best fares available.
