The new website allows users to book hotels and tourism services and to pay for and receive airline tickets online
"Travelstart", one of Egypt's leading online travel and tourism agencies, announced the launch of its Arabic-language website, aiming to offer its services in booking airline tickets, hotels, car rental and other tourism services online. This allows the company's customers to use the website in their mother tongue or switch between it and English with a single click. The new website strengthens the company's leadership in the Egyptian market, having won the Amadeus award for "Best Online Travel Agency" this year for the second year in a row.
For his part, Ahmed Saad, regional manager of "Travelstart Egypt", said: "Our goal from the start has been to make it possible to book and buy all tourism services online in Arabic via the internet and mobile phones, and we are very happy to achieve this goal today."
He added that the company's strategy focuses on offering modern and innovative travel and tourism services that meet the aspirations and needs of travelers, especially the young generation, who prefer dealing online over traditional methods. He noted that sales jumped by 300% last year compared with the year before, and expected that offering services in Arabic will also help strengthen this success and grow the company's customer base in Egypt, which has 45 million internet users.
Saad pointed out that more than 40,000 flights have been booked through "Travelstart's" website in Egypt this year, because the travel and tourism services it offers online are highly efficient and easy to use, and are supported by a customer service center that works seven days a week, making it easy for customers to book travel tickets and pay for them online whenever they want and from anywhere.
The Egyptian market is responding very positively to innovative, highly efficient and secure online services. According to a report by PayFort, a leader in online payment services, online travel ticket sales in Egypt are expected to jump from $1.9 billion last year to $2.8 billion in 2020.
Regarding the company's business results in Egypt, Saad stated that the company's sales last year exceeded 30 million Egyptian pounds, while customers' purchases of airline tickets rose by 263%, and the number of visitors to its website reached about 1.2 million.
It is worth noting that Travelstart Egypt recently launched its "Next" service, which allows companies and travel and tourism agencies to make travel ticket bookings and transactions through the company's website online at any time and from anywhere.
"Travelstart Egypt" is a subsidiary of South Africa's Travelstart and is present in the markets of South Africa, Nigeria, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Turkey, where it operates under the trade name "Geziko".
