World ‘N’ Traveland launches new online platform for tourist

To further satisfy its existing and prospective customers, World ‘N’ Traveland, one of Nigeria’s indigenous travel agencies, has launched WONTRA, a new online brand that allows travellers to do virtually everything about their trips at once.

The new website launched under the firm’s platform allows travellers and tourists to do more than just buying tickets; it embraces all tourism products. Rather than going to travel agency, travellers can now use this online sites, to put together their tailor-made holiday’s package with cheap online flights and hotel bookings.

According to the MD/CEO of World N Traveland, Funmi Faloye, “the company will be investing in tourism and then push all its travel service products to the new WONTRA brand, adding more services including car rental, live cruise’s booking engine and low cost airline live bookings”.

She said, the website has more than the regular service, starting from its interactive design and the easy with which a visitor can navigate the entire site for holistic travel experience.Faloye explained that the keywords are user friendly solutions, all of which have one thing in common: investment in exceeding customers’ expectations as customers can book short flights as it goes beyond the international flights.

“In fact, traveller can discover the best hotels at the best price.  Already, the site has come alive with customers visiting for information on destinations all over the world, hotels, vacation packages, flights and visa information,” she stated.

On what the firm is doing to encourage Nigerians travellers at a time the economy is experiencing recession, Faloye explained that the World ‘N’ Traveland brand has 365 travel plan, which allows travel customers save and build funds towards their holiday.

According to her the 365 is a savings travel plan fashioned after the traditional means of saving N365 for the whole 365 days towards a future travel event, be it a business trip or holiday. “The essence of this product is to make travel achievable and accessible to everyone through savings and proper planning. Subscribers have the option of saving the amounts daily, weekly or monthly, which allows for flexibility and convenience.

“At the end of the savings period of choice, the funds can be applied towards any of WNT’s travel products like ticket bookings, hotel reservations, airport transfers, visas and any of our other travel products and services or carried over to subsequent years until the client is ready to use the funds,” she stated.

Faloye further explained that this is the best time to attract tourists to the country as foreign exchange is affecting how people travel due to high cost of tickets. “Various resorts need to be authentic as trying to be modelled after foreign resorts will not achieve the needed results,” she said.