Yegna Home Rolls Out Accommodation Booking Platforms

Mar 19 , 2022


Yegna Home, a digital hospitality service provider, has introduced a website, an unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) service, and a mobile booking solution enabling tourists and domestic users to reserve accommodations at hotels, apartments, guesthouses and resorts. The company has also signed a deal with Ethiopian Airlines to integrate its platform with the national carrier's Sheba Miles customer loyalty programme. Incorporated in 2021 with five million Birr in equity raised from two shareholders – Melaku Tekola and Yohannes Tedla – Yegna Home offers booking services for 220 hotels on its digital platform. Addis Software, an IT firm that works in collaboration with a company based in Sweden, developed and supplied Yegna Home's digital platform.


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