Hibret Bank Broadens Choice for Online Ticket Booking


Hibret Bank Broadens Choice for Online Ticket Booking

Clients with accounts at Hibret Bank now have a broadened choice in buying tickets online, with the addition of services to online booking it has been offering in partnership with Ethiopian Airlines for four years. Last week its executives signed with GuzoGo, a travel booking application, allowing its clients to buy tickets online from a carrier of their choice and place using the Hibir Mobile Banking app. Travelers are not to be subject to service fees, and the tickets are issued immediately upon completion of the transactions. Sol-Get Travel is the parent company that owns the GuzoGo travel application and businesses such as Nahoo TV and Rosetta Real Estate. Earlier this month, it launched CashGo, a remittance and crowdfunding application, in partnership with Bank of Abyssinia. Hibret's services with Ethiopian Airlines remain as options, company officials said. Hibret Bank posted 893.9 million Br in net profit during the past fiscal year, and its paid-up capital also expanded massively by 40.7pc to 3.2 billion Br over the same period.


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