Travel Startups Incubator is pleased to announce our investment in Africabookings, a hotel bedbank (wholesaler) with offices based out of Zimbabwe, Africa and the UK. Africabookings is lead by founder and CEO Bruce Tapping and a investment group of veteran travel executives. Matt Zito, managing partner at Travel Startups Incubator says, “we were impressed with Bruce’s vision and presentation at Eye For Travels 1-day Startup Village conference in San Francisco in March where we first met.”
Bruce Tapping, Founder Africabookings, with Gina Baillie, GM Eye For Travel and Matt Zito Travel Startups Incubator.
In a short-period of time Bruce has been able to onboard 500 African hotels with direct contracts into an online wholesale distribution system for travel agency’s, agents and OTAs to resell Africabookings hotel inventory. Africa is a huge untapped continent with massive growth potential for the travel industry. As more people travel globally over the next 10-years, Africa will become a major destination positioning Africabookings to capitalize on this growth.
The seed funding will be used to expand throughout sub-Saharan Africa into more than 19 countries. Africabookings is currently looking for hotels and lodges that need global distribution for their inventory.
Contacts:
Bruce Tapping
bruce.tapping@africabookings.com
