Cloud9xp, an online marketplace, booking service and distributor for leisure experiences backed by Hotel Online has merged with Hearbeat Adventures, a tech-enabled tours and travel companies in the region.
According to Cloud9xp Cofounder, Tesh Mbaabu, “This move extends the collaboration between the teams at the two companies, as we have already been working together over the last nine months, with Heartbeat Adventures being one of our best-performing experience providers on the Cloud9xp platform.”
The merger is expected to allow a better customer experience and entry into in-destination management, flight and accommodation bookings using Cloud9xp’s technology and partnerships; and Heartbeat Adventure’s experience in on ground operations across different travel and tourism spheres.
The two companies will continue with operations under the Cloud9xp brand, with HeartBeat Adventures’s Founder, Winnie Kimathi as the new Managing Director and HotelOnline’s Håvar Bauck as Chairman of the company, effective June 1st, 2019.
The new MD will oversee day to day operations of the company, open new doors for revenue generation through curated travel packages and lead the next phase of the company’s’ growth.
Håvar, Cloud9xp Chairman and Executive Chairman and co-founder of HotelOnline, “Cloud9XP is one of the most exciting ventures in the African traveltech space at the moment. The merger with Heartbeat Ventures creates a new, disruptive force in an industry begging for innovation. Hotel distribution has moved online, but tours and activities are still marketed and distributed the same way they were 30 years ago. Cloud9XP now moves to fill that space, to enable e-commerce and digital marketing for the entire industry, in Kenya and beyond.”
Tour operators and experience providers in this country work hard day and night to make people’s dreams come true. Cloud9XP makes it easier than ever for them to reach out to their customers. With Cloud9XP, small travel businesses in the remotest corners of the country can sell directly to the whole world!
Cloud9xp was founded 2016 by friends Tesh Mbaabu and Mesongo Sibuti in Nairobi. The firm was winner of the Nairobi Africarena Challenge. The firm has also won several grants and competitions from Google and number of other pan-African challenges.
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