Chunguza Journey is East Africa’s first self-service on-line journey reserving platform.
— says Isaac Ntegeka, a Co-Founder
KAMPALA, UGANDA, April 22, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Chunguza Journey, East Africa’s pioneering self-service on-line journey reservation platform, immediately introduced the profitable increase of $200,000 in seed funding. Launched in December 2023 by three visionary entrepreneurs, Chunguza Journey is breaking down boundaries and reworking journey planning for people throughout Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi.
This user-friendly platform affords unprecedented comfort for East African vacationers. For the primary time, residents can seamlessly guide flights, lodges, rental vehicles, excursions, and actions to locations worldwide – all instantly from a neighborhood web site. Chunguza Journey’s integration with acquainted cost strategies like M-Pesa, Airtel Cash, MTN Cell Cash, Tigo-Pesa, and different fashionable cellular cash choices eliminates transaction hurdles and makes the reserving course of easy and accessible.
Chunguza Journey’s attain extends past particular person vacationers. The platform additionally features as a vibrant digital market, empowering native tour operators to showcase their companies to a broader buyer base. Safari firms and journey tour suppliers can simply listing their choices, gaining higher visibility and enterprise alternatives.
Leveraging its deep native roots, Chunguza Journey understands the distinctive wants of East African vacationers. By incorporating options that deal with these wants, like versatile installment cost plans for packages and lodges, Chunguza Journey breaks down monetary boundaries, permitting extra individuals to expertise the enjoyment of journey and exploration.
The Chunguza Journey group prioritizes accountable journey practices. Co-Founder Oine Sophia emphasizes their deep connection to the area and its communities. By waiving itemizing charges for carbon-neutral lodges and actively showcasing environmentally acutely aware companies, they champion tourism that instantly advantages native individuals and protects valuable pure assets. Moreover, Chunguza Journey stands behind truthful compensation, that includes solely companies that pay their employees a residing wage.
“This seed funding will empower us to consolidate operations, construct our group, amplify advertising, and critically, gas continued innovation,” says Isaac Ntegeka, a Co-Founder
Isaac Ntegeka, Sophia Oine and Ariel Ngoie are the collaborative masterminds behind Chunguza Journey. The revolutionary spark behind Chunguza Journey originated with co-Founder Sophia, whose imaginative and prescient for the platform crystallized in 2022 throughout her research at Uganda’s Makerere College. Collaborating with Isaac Ntegeka, she constructed the preliminary prototype of the web site. Isaac then journeyed to Nairobi and later London, the place he was joined by Ariel from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Collectively, they spearhead the technical growth of the platform. Isaac and Ariel are at the moment Laptop Science college students on the College of East London. This exceptional group, fueled by ardour and experience, drives Chunguza Journey’s success as a groundbreaking East African enterprise. The corporate has grown to incorporate 30 devoted group members and maintains a bodily presence in Uganda, Kenya, and London.
Catherine Nabakooza
Chunguza Journey
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