sSA: Ethiopia :Polo Car Rental

Polo Car Rent

Introduction & Background

Polo car rent is a business undertaking company established in 2005 by a renowned Ethiopian investor with initial paid up capital of Eth.Birr 3,000,000.00 (Three million) by taking the business rights of the General Manager, Ato Feysel Abderuf who was in the business since 1992 E.C.

Company's business objectives as stipulated in the Memorandum of Association include the following activities:

• To engage in car rental business,
• To carryout provision of tour service to tourists,
• To carryout air transport ticket sales,
• To engage in tour operation business,
• To engage in hotel & tourism business,
• To carryout import and sales of various types of new brand & used vehicles,
• To engage in transport service delivery,
• And to take part in other endeavors that would enhance company's business objectives and contribute a better return on company's assets.

Establishment

Polo car rent is currently mainly engaged in car rental, tour & travel undertakings in which it offers wide selections of comfortable and modern vehicles for all occasions, historic route, culture & nature routes, trekking, paragliding sport and caving tours and offers different airline ticket sells of all airlines operating in Ethiopia, respectively that are primarily related to the tourism industry. The company has demonstrated remarkable progress in its endeavors as could be discerned from its diversified investment, its reputation and existing financial stand.

The tremendous and paying potentialities of the car rental & travel sector necessitated the formation of Polo car rent Ato Feysel Abderuf, the founding entrepreneur and the major share holder, has been in the business retaining a wide acceptance and continued trust of his multi -national individual and corporate customers, mainly in the area of car rental – travel - retail services.

Polo car rent is one of the most comprehensive service provider and market leading enterprise in the field of car rental, travel & tourism retail services. The Company is running by a team of dedicated and energetic professionals with extensive experience & knowledge in business management in general and travel and tourism retail services in particular.

Ever since its establishment the company has shown a multifaceted growth in providing the most comprehensive travel & tourism services across the nation and become in the frontlines of the growing national car rental, travel & tourism sector. The company has continued to stretch its market share across all parts of the country and has the trust and confidence of its customers characterized by high sense of satisfaction and continued decision to work with the company.

Services and Amenities

The company provides an extensive service with range of amenities fully tailored to meet customer’s interests:-

• Rent car for office use, personal use, meetings, conferences, tourist attractions, historical tours, wedding ceremonies, and or any other occasions.
• All our vehicles are covered with valid comprehensive insurance policy.
• For chauffeur driven vehicles, our company will provide with English speaking and polite drivers, with long experience working with different tourists, expatriate and national project managers.
• We have a fully equipped garage with experienced mechanics.
• All our vehicles are in excellent condition, and we have the capacity to replace rented vehicles in case of breakdown.
• Tour packages for historical sites, Cultural sites, Natural sites, and Ecological sites, Traveling, Bride watching and Drafting.
• We specialize in organizing various sight seeing tours, handling reservations and air ticket, hotel reservations and air cargo services.

A) Car rental for:-

• office use
• meetings and conferences
• safaris
• historical tours
• ceremonies and special occasions
• self drive vehicles
• field trips
• weddings

B) Air ticket sales:-

• agent for different airlines across the world
• hand delivery of your air ticket
• hotel reservation
• air cargo

C) Tour operation:-

• Arranges tours, traveling, drafting and safaris with qualified tour operators.

D) Decorations for:-

• conference halls
• wedding halls
• wedding cars
• wedding ceremonies

E) Video service:-

• for weddings
• for meetings
• for special occasions

F) Commission agent: -

• Rents cars on commission basis

G) Show room:-

• Polo car rent has a big show room in the center of the capital city.

H) Garage:-

• owns and operates fully equipped garage to service and repair company cars

I) Fleet of cars:-

• Limousines, Mercedes benz, 4x4 wagons, various types of automobiles (sedans), buses, pick ups, van, trucks.
  

Statement on future directions

With the overall aim of introducing an efficient customer interest oriented services, the future expansion works of the company are directed towards diversifying the product lines in the travel & tourism business at large. Other than the services listed above the company is on the verge of introducing further service skims by investing significant funds in adding the fleet of vehicles to enhance the travel & tourism retail services.
The overall objective is reaching out the market in comprehensive approach and making the services more affordable to all customer groups by way of creating a wide pool of services delivered at a convenient single spot. The Standardization of services is part of the expansion plan consideration aiding our vision of proving ourselves as world-class services providers.