Hotels

Guests from around the world will be able to book rooms in SlimTrader partner hotels directly from Expedia

Hotel Now Now, a recent entrant into the online hotel booking business in Nigeria has announced its agreement with The Guardian Newspapers to hosts its widget on The Guardian’s website. The deal will allow The Guardian’s web visitors book hotels without leaving the website. According to Hotel Now Now’s CEO, George Jinadu, “we have run […]

Lagos-based hotel booking website, Hotels.ng is organizing a hackathon to develop a machine learning algorithm to predict users who will cancel hotel bookings.

Businesses are traditionally known to converse in high-sounding industry jargon and a great deal of formality in customer relations. But all these are being thrown out with the advent of social media platforms whose rules are set by the users.

In what will likely be one of the most talked-about African startup funding events of 2015, Hotels.ng has secured $1.2 million from international investors Omidyar Network and EchoVC.

Mark Essien, founder of Hotels.ng, opens up in this Digits feature, about his background, his company, his passion for technology which he channeled into redefining the Nigerian hotel booking process by providing a large selection of hotels online across the country; the journey to the present and his plans for the future. Hotels.ng was launched 2 […]