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♰ Peter Long

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

It is with deep regret that we advise of the passing away of Peter Long our Chief Executive Officer who was a dynamic sales strategist, business analyst, and organizational development expert on Friday 9 July 2021.
He was passionate about the travel industry and development of the different players at every level focusing principally on automation and business efficiency around the processes they employed to run their businesses profitably. An amazing people person, leader and tireless innovator who will be sorely missed.
We pray for his wife Ae and the rest of the family during this exceedingly difficult time.
May his soul rest in peace.

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Peter Hallebach

Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) & Founder

A 3rd generation travel agent. Travel is in this man’s blood, with a passion for travel and its facilitating technology, he is always looking for ways to streamline travel agent workflows. Peter’s travel management experience is focused around TMC and corporate customer views. Furthermore, he was extensively involved in almost all management spheres, especially travel distribution, and has a deep understanding of key drivers within the travel industry. Peter also has extensive work experience in Africa, having worked for a few prominent African travel agents recently.

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Robert Ambroise

Managing Director & Cultural Advisor

Graduated from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK, Robert started his career in sales and marketing with an International Bank – Barclays Bank – before moving to travel and tourism in Mauritius in the early 90s when telex was still the main and only communication tool with overseas partners. He has over 30 years of experience in the Travel Industry. During his career, Robert has managed Destination Management Companies in Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Zambia. In 2016, Robert founded Indibleu, a Destination Management Company in Mauritius.

Robert is obsessed with new technology, product development, forward-thinking, sustainable tourism initiatives (giving back to the community) and eco-friendly experiences for travellers.

He is also passionate about travelling and has visited over 60 places around the world so far, most of the time going off the beaten track for a close encounter with the locals.

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Immanuel Banza

Director Key Accounts

With over 30 years travel industry experience, 20 of which were dedicated to team training & development, sales management and business development, Immanuel possesses an acute understanding of doing business in culturally and economically diverse business environments having managed operations, in multiple countries in the Southern African market.

His management experience focused mainly on developing regional travel businesses to improve their efficiency and profitability through the introduction of technology to automate systems and processes.

Immanuel is passionate about enabling individuals and teams achieve their full potential.

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Siegfried Mayer

Chief Development Officer (CDO)

Our Chief Technology Officer has lived and worked in several sub-Saharan African countries and has more than 30 years of travel development experience. Siegfried has a sophisticated understanding of travel agent software solution requirements and has developed and customized software across all sectors of the travel industry. A case in point is frontend, backend and interface programming. Using an agile programming approach, he achieves rapid project implementation. The development is focused on PHP and MySQL; other languages and environments are used according to project needs.

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Sylvia Mayer

Chief Design Officer (CDO)

We rely on Sylvia’s design expertise to create optical magic. As a 15-year professional web developer for the travel industry, she has designed and developed travel sites, travel apps and all related marketing material. She specialises in creating intelligently responsive HTML5 web solutions, ensuring well-defined structures, technically accurate programming as well as applying her creative mind to a design, which in turn is crucial for a functional product and inspired look and feel. Sylvia also serves as a liaison between clients and software developers. This, in addition to her knowledge of software design issues for the travel industry, makes her skills invaluable at travelcenter.africa®.

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Our Values

supplying, implementing and supporting

• Putting the needs of our clients first
• striving to continuously aim for excellence
• providing state-of-the-art software solutions
• support our clients both functionally and technically

Empowering New Entrants into the travel industry

Our CSR initiative doesn’t limit us to mentoring, sharing knowledge, and working only with local black entrepreneurs, we are also actively involved in expanding the visibility of black entrepreneurs in the IT and travel industry, where we successfully face the future.

Innovation

We’re continuously looking for new and better ways to provide travel services in the SSA region through innovation and creativity. We understand Africa’s needs are unique and will design solutions which cater specifically for those needs. We believe ground-breaking opportunities exists in the SSA region. With our use of technology and know-how from around the globe additionally, in some cases, the creation our own unique solutions, will establish travelcenter.africa® in the forefront of travel trade software.

Hard work and Loyalty

Hard work and loyalty to each other is the only way we will be able to achieve our collective goals. This business model will only work if we are willing to work hard and stay focused on our customers and the market’s needs. We are committed to listening, discussing and adjust functionalities where required. Our customers' needs will drive us to new heights. Key drivers are markets and customers needs, our goal is to give our customers.

Unity in Cultural Diversity

Embracing Cultural Diversity will be key to our success. We will need to manage the language barriers, including but not limited to the three dominant languages, English, French and Portuguese. The advantage of cultural diversification is that it gives us unique opportunities, as each culture has its own travel requirements, creating diverse opportunities which we can capitalize on.

Teamwork

In African culture, we believe in teamwork, assisting and supporting each other to find a sustainable way to feed our families. Likewise, in our business we believe the key will be co-operation with one another. We believe the sustainability of travel in Africa is co-operation between different countries’ travel communities across the SSA region. The co-operation will help ALL travel communities in different countries better service their travellers across the SSA region. It will give them the reach to service these travellers in markets they don’t have a presence in.

Being a Partner, not just a client

We are building a collaborative organisation, co-operating with each other and helping each other to grow our business through sharing our knowledge and skills and collaborating through a strategic partnership. The best business environment emerges when we work together and respect one another’s unique skills, knowledge and perspectives.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Our mantra is growth. We would encourage this concept in every area we touch. People development is our current focus. The Travel Innovation Development Hub will provide many talented, aspiring IT programmers the opportunity to learn and grow in the IT and travel industry.

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