{"id":42931,"date":"2025-11-25T00:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=42931"},"modified":"2025-11-25T00:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:40:36","slug":"cvgkerq52p4oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/25\/cvgkerq52p4oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"The start-up connecting African firms to tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Nigerian entrepreneur Rory Okoli started her career in Nigeria&#8217;s hospitality industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">That experience, along with travelling across Africa, showed her it was not always easy for tourists to organise African trips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">So, she launched TripZapp with the aim of making it simple for travellers to find, book and pay for African travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In particular she wanted to connect locally-owned businesses with tourists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">That involved integrating the latest payment and productivity tools into the firm&#8217;s operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Now TripZapp offers all sorts of adventures, from swimming with turtles in Zanzibar, to hot air balloon rides in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This is the fifth part in series on technology in Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#startup #connecting #African #firms #tourists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian entrepreneur Rory Okoli started her career in Nigeria&#8217;s hospitality industry. That experience, along with travelling across Africa, showed her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42933,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42931\/revisions\/42933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}