Travelstart is a South African travel booking website, offering flights, hotel bookings, car rental, holiday packages, and other travel services through an online booking engine."A relatively unknown outfit is rapidly becoming one of the biggest web businesses in South Africa", ITWeb Brainstorm, 2010-01-07
The company operates in South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Travelstart was founded in Sweden in 1999, by Stephan Ekbergh. Before launching Travelstart, Ekbergh founded Sweden's first online travel agency, Mr Jet, in 1995."Travel pioneer starts online roll-out in SA", MyBroadband, 2006-08-30
In 2010, Travelstart Nordic was sold to European Travel Interactive AB(eTRAVELi), and the former's headquarters moved to Cape Town."eTRAVELi acquires competitor Travelstart in Europe" , 2010-01-20
In 2012, Travelstart Nigeria was launched, followed by Travelstart Egypt.
In December 2019, Travelstart acquired competitor Jumia Travel from Jumia. Under the purchase agreement, Travelstart took control of Jumia Travel's online book websites.
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External links
Travelstart Kenya website Travelstart Egypt website Travelstart Nigeria website