Remmings hotel is a 42 roomed mid-range business hotel , located on Balintuma Road, Near Namirembe Cathedral established in 2016. Remmings Hotel is providing superior hospitality at competitive pricing. It is ideally suited for business, leisure and holiday travelers in Kampala by offering a wide array of quality services and facilities, ranging from Accommodation, fine dining, in-house recreation (health club) and conferencing. Remmings hotel was in need of powerful website that automates the process of receiving bookings and payments online including creation of it OTAs and social media accounts.

There are a total of 42 spacious and modern rooms are housed on a 4 storied building, supplemented by another two storied building that houses the Restaurant, Resident’s Bar, and Sports bar, Health Club , offices and conference hall. The rooms are constantly refurbished and kept up to latest hospitability standards. There is also a boardroom, which accommodates up to 15 people. The entire Hotel facility is Wi-Fi enabled.

Othware was contacted by the director of Remmings hotel. Othware team had previously worked with Arthur in the developed of 3 unique websites for his other businesses. He was very satisfied with the services offered at Othware. He had long been uncomfortable with the tendency of clients having to visit the hotel and find all rooms occupied. He preferred the process be handled in a swift and clear manner online, where by the client visits the website, find available rooms, makes reservations and completes the payments online. The process could promotes transparency, accountability and ensures hotel staff concentrate on providing the best customer service to clients.

“Can you create for us OTAs accounts, Facebook and Instagram handles and connect them directly to the website?” Wondered Arthur, the director of Remmings Hotel.

Our website design and digital marketing team was very excited at another opportunity of delivery a quality service to a usual customer.

A powerful website was developed for Remmings hotel in a period of 2 weeks. The hotel website has the capacity to receive bookings, reach the hotel staff, receive promotional price and service updates through the blog and ensure that the website is fully customizable by the hotel IT staff. The website was developed using WordPress and various booking plugins.

OTAs accounts for bookings.com, agoda.com, tripadvisor.com, and expedia.com were developed. This were all connected to the website through various SEO backlinks. SEO experts at Othware we available to help in the process of promoting the Google rankings of the newly developed website.

Remmings hotel social media handles we concurrently developed by the Othware digital marketing team.

The developed website was synchronized with Hotel Management System used at the hotel.

After 5 months of operation with a functional website and a thorough ongoing SEO strategy, Arthur thanked our team for the website design service delivered to Remmings Hotel.

All the tedious tasks and time involved in the booking process had been transferred to delivering quality customer services to clients. We further prepared us for more projects from his end.

Are you planning to stay in Kampala? Please visit Remmings Hotel and witness our wonderful work onsite!.

The Global Peace Foundation (GPF) is an international nonprofit organization with a mission to promote “an innovative, values-based approach to peacebuilding, guided by the vision of One Family under God.” GPF partners with government ministries, community and faith-based organizations and United Nations offices to develop and execute programs in 20 countries including Uganda.

Government of Uganda in partnership with Global Peace Foundation (GPF), Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU), Interreligious Council of East Africa Secretariat and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) were preparing for the Global Peace Leadership Conference 2018, a summit that attracted over 1000 participants from different parts of the world. The conference was held from 1^st – 2^nd of August 2018 in Munyonyo Resort Hotel Kampala, under the theme “Moral and Innovative Leadership: New Models for Sustainable Peace and Development”

The summit draw a large number of participants including heads of state, ambassadors, religious leaders, youth and women. The conference was a major milestone for the Global Peace Foundation Uganda Chapter tasked with organizing the conference although it had no prior experience in organizing a conference of such a magnitude. The chapter had no mailing lists, which posed a challenge in the process of creating of awareness.

To ensure a success in the conference, GPF required a guest registration system, participant mobilization and content mobile applications. The mobile applications were required by the organization for purposes of registration, interaction of guests and provision of all necessary information relevant for the conference.

A dedicated website was developed for the conference. Conference Social media channels including Facebook and Twitter were further set up.

Android and IOS mobile applications were developed for the organization with capabilities of guest registration, interaction and access to all necessary information relevant for the conference.

Staff collected relevant emailing data from the field. The data collected from the field had to be cleaned for generating invitation letters and mailing.

The Global Peace Leadership Conference 2018 was generally well organized as per the expectation of GPF Uganda. Of interest to the participants was the mobile applications and its various features. The conference was successfully conducted as expected as well.