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By Tedla Desta - Capital
26 June, 2007
As the preparations of the new Ethiopian millennium are underway, a local company called SEDNet General Business Plc has announced that it started an online Guest house reservation system together with the City Government of Addis Ababa Millennium Secretariat.
According to the General Manager of the company, Hailemariam Solomon, in order to make the activity more effective they have reached an agreement with Shama Plc to place registration lists so that the guest house owners can fill the forms in 10 different Book World outlets.
“SEDNet will facilitate access for visitors through the service it will provide on line. Our company would identify available houses for rent ahead of time and would provide the information through the web page to all who would be interested to benefit from the service” he told Capital.
During the launching ceremony the representatives said that of the profits earned from the rental of these houses, 20 percent would go directly to the City’s Millennium Council.
“We don’t advise renters to evict their current inhabitants and register. This would ruin the long staying culture that we have. For the sake of a few months benefit we shan’t loose our life time neighbors. Only those who have non rented extra houses can register” said Berket Eshetu, Supply and Reservation Head.
This millennium expects to see from 750 thousand to one million people from the diasporas .As a result of this the is said to be escalating much higher than ever.
In the registration process the condition the guest house, neatness, peacefulness will be investigated and posted on the web.
During the occasion guest house owners and others were present. The company owners said also that the company has currently studied 56 standardized guest houses found in the city and the booking will start for them soon.
Guest house owners on their part said renting houses in such an organized manner would facilitate their services and guests would comfortably be hosted.