Jovago and AccorHotels have announced the signing of an innovative partnership to incorporate all AccorHotels established on the African continent on the Jovago platform - Africa’s top online hotel booking website.

The partnership would firstly involve the incorporation of 30 AccorHotels hotels located in 13 countries on the Jovago platform and then, the overall hotels of the group in Africa.

“AccorHotels is one of the largest players in the hotel industry in Africa.

“As Africa’s leading hotel booking platform, we are proud to incorporate AccorHotels into our platform in order to provide our African customers with high quality hotels in the key cities of the continent,” said Paul Midy, chief executive of Jovago.

“This strategic partnership confirms our passion for hospitality and hotel development in Africa.”

The AccorHotels’ portfolio will become a part of Jovago’s catalog of 25,000 hotels in Africa, further enabling customers to book a room directly through the jovago.com website and benefit from a personalised, locally based customer service available 24/7 in several languages.

“The partnership with Jovago highly contributes to establish our distribution strategy in Africa,” added Souleymane Khol, vice president, sales and marketing, Africa & Indian Ocean, AccorHotels.

“AccorHotels is in a continuous process of dynamic innovation aiming to always mix more efficiently the digital experience with our hospitality know-how.”