Jumia Travel Uganda Introduces New Payment Option

Kampala July 26th 2017 - Booking and paying for hotels and flights on the Jumia Travel Uganda site has been made even more efficient with the introduction of the “Pay at the office” option to suit the customers’ needs. This allows you to book and pay for your selected hotel at the Jumia Travel physical offices located on Plot 47, Lumumba Avenue, Nakasero.

" At Jumia Travel, the customer is king, we take the initiative to provide innovative solutions to fit our customers’ needs. With these payment methods, customers are now offered with more payment choices, making it easier to go on that business or leisure trip,” says Country Manager Jumia Travel Uganda-Timothy Mugume.

Jumia Travel Uganda aims to continue making the site more user friendly and efficient so as to ease hotel and flight booking and allow more people to enjoy the travel experience. The other payment options on the site include Bank Transfer for both Dollar and Uganda shillings accounts , MTN Mobile Money and Credit card.

About Jumia Travel
Jumia Travel ( travel.jumia.com ) is the N°1 Pan African Online Travel Agency, which simplifies the travel booking experience by allowing users to compare prices and amenities in a fast and secure manner.

With more than 30,000 hotels in Africa (+300,000 hotels around the world) and more than a hundred flight companies as partners, Jumia Travel aims to democratize travel by reducing travelling cost, providing the largest inventory of properties and granting local & high-quality services to become the one stop travel shop in the continent.

Jumia Travel is active in over 40 countries in Africa, with 10 local offices, and more than 400 travel specialists constantly in touch with our customers. Our main hubs are in Lagos (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana), Dakar (Senegal), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Algiers (Algeria), Douala (Cameroon), Kampala (Uganda), Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), Nairobi (Kenya) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Before June 2016, Jumia Travel was known as Jovago. It was founded in 2013 by Jumia and is backed by MTN, Millicom, Rocket Internet, Orange, Axa and other financial partners.