SlimTrader empowers hotel managers ‘for greater sales’

Wednesday, the 29th of June, 2016, saw over 500 owners and managers of hotels and other hospitality business converged at the Federal Palace Hotel, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, for the inaugural empowerment program organized by e-commerce company, SlimTrader.

The event, which had the theme ‘Positioning your hotel for greater sales’, was aimed at helping hospitality managers in the country manage their operations efficiently by adopting new technology solutions for their operations.

Also, the one-day event, which was the first of its kind in Nigeria, featured experts and business owners who gave talks on several topic relating to e-commerce, business, finance and hospitality.

Speaking at the event, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder of SlimTrader, Femi Akinde, said that SlimTrader is focused on “facilitate effortless transactions for businesses across Sub-Sahara Africa”

“The forum will continue to feature insightful lineup of presentations and panel discussions ranging from what it takes for hotels in Nigeria to create visibility to specific target groups to new ways for the Nigerian hospitality sector to extend its reach to a bigger local and international audience,” he said.

“The mission of SlimTrader is to facilitate effortless transactions for businesses across Sub-Sahara Africa. In working with hotels, we discovered that they face serious challenges in securing reservations to offline payments.”

“We found out that there are lots of hotels that find it difficult to run its operation in terms of technology. They hire consultants to research all the available options and to propose one.”

“SlimTrader gladly took on this challenge and we are pleased that today we can launch this much-needed solution for the hotel industry in Nigeria, tying multiple payment terminals to their physical and online reservations.”

Present at the event were the Divisional CEO, Switching and Processing, Interswitch Limited, Akeem Lawal; former Director for Marketplace, Konga.com, Kunle Oguneye; Co-founder of Bogobiri House in Ikoyi, Tola Akerele; founder of Amplitude Solutions, Bruce Prins; and leading hotel technology development expert and a holder of multiple technology patents and Martin Pagel.

L-R: Daniel Sacerdoti, Director, Distribution Accounts for Expedia, Hakeem Lawal, Divisional CEO S&P, Interswitch, and Femi Akinde, Founder/CEO of SlimTrader during the SlimTrader Hotels' Summit 2016 held in Lagos on Wednesday
L-R: Daniel Sacerdoti, Director, Distribution Accounts for Expedia, Hakeem Lawal, Divisional CEO S&P, Interswitch, and Femi Akinde, Founder/CEO of SlimTrader during the SlimTrader Hotels’ Summit 2016 held in Lagos on Wednesday
 L-R: Daniel Sacerdoti, Director, Distribution Accounts for Expedia, Tola Akerele, Co-Founder Bogobiri House, Femi Akinde, Founder/CEO of SlimTrader and Martin Pagel , Chief Technology Officer SlimTrader during the SlimTrader Hotels' Summit 2016 held in Lagos on Wednesday
L-R: Daniel Sacerdoti, Director, Distribution Accounts for Expedia, Tola Akerele, Co-Founder Bogobiri House, Femi Akinde, Founder/CEO of SlimTrader and Martin Pagel , Chief Technology Officer SlimTrader during the SlimTrader Hotels’ Summit 2016 held in Lagos on Wednesday
L-R: Daniel Sacerdoti, Director, Distribution Accounts for Expedia, Tola Akerele, Co-Founder Bogobiri House, Femi Akinde, Founder/CEO of SlimTrader and Magaji Buba , General Manager, SlimTrader during the SlimTrader Hotels' Summit 2016 held in Lagos on Wednesday
L-R: Daniel Sacerdoti, Director, Distribution Accounts for Expedia, Tola Akerele, Co-Founder Bogobiri House, Femi Akinde, Founder/CEO of SlimTrader and Magaji Buba , General Manager, SlimTrader during the SlimTrader Hotels’ Summit 2016 held in Lagos on Wednesday
L-R: Daniel Sacerdoti, Director, Distribution Accounts for Expedia, Hakeem Lawal, Divisional CEO S&P, Interswitch, and Femi Akinde, Founder/CEO of SlimTrader during the SlimTrader Hotels' Summit 2016 held in Lagos on Wednesday
L-R: Daniel Sacerdoti, Director, Distribution Accounts for Expedia, Hakeem Lawal, Divisional CEO S&P, Interswitch, and Femi Akinde, Founder/CEO of SlimTrader during the SlimTrader Hotels’ Summit 2016 held in Lagos on Wednesday

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