Hotels.ng Raises $1.2M

What does Hotels.ng do?

Hotels.ng, is an African Hotel Booking Website. It is the biggest local hotel booking website in Nigeria hosting over 4,000 hotels on its platform. It lists local hotels which are not travel aggregators distributed and let users book them. Customers can make electronic payment or on arrival at the hotel. It claims to be the largest hotel booking website in Nigeria. They are an online travel agency specializing in hotel bookings within Nigeria. It allows clients in booking hotel rooms online and providing comprehensive helps and support to their clients and make the process of booking hotels easy and smooth. It also provides hotel recommendation and reviews to ensure that the clients stay in clean, good and safe hotels all over the country.

How much Hotels.ng was funded?

Hotels.ng raised $1.2M in Series A funding on May 25, 2015 from Omidyar Network and EchoVC Partners.

Previous funding

• $250k in Seed round on January 1, 2013 from Spark

What is next for Hotels.ng?

Hotels.ng will launch new operations in Ghana and then move on to the remaining of West Africa and then to the remainder of the continent. It also has plans to focus on its mobile platform, as many customers in Africa are accessing the web exclusively through their smart phones. The company is focused exclusively on Africa as it is able to offer more inventory than its competitors. This website is adapting to the needs of the consumers in the regions where there are a few stable phone or internet connections, with phone and messaging based reservations accounting for over 30% of its entire bookings.

More about Hotels.ng

Hotels.ng was founded in 2012 by Mark Essien and has its headquarters in Lagos. More than a million hotel searches were done on this site last year, while 70K new customers had signed up.