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Your brand. Your guests. Your data. No middleman.

SmartGuest is the platform that gives any hospitality provider their own fully branded digital relationship with their guests — and takes it back from the platforms that have been renting it to them.

Live at a 5-star game reserve

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Our Mission

Our mission is to end intermediary dependency in hospitality. Every hotel, game reserve, and boutique property that relies on Booking.com, Expedia, or third-party platforms to reach their guests has handed over their most valuable asset — the direct relationship. SmartGuest gives it back. Your branded platform. Your guest data. Your revenue. No commission to platforms that own your customers more than you do.

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Our Story

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How It Began

SmartGuest was built during COVID-19. With tourism at a standstill and the hospitality industry in crisis, the Digiterra team made a decision: use the downtime to build something that would matter when the world reopened. That project became SmartGuest — a platform designed from the ground up to give hospitality providers back the guest relationship that intermediaries had been slowly taking from them.

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What We Are Today

SmartGuest is now a full guest experience platform used by properties across South Africa and expanding into Europe. Currently live at a 5-star luxury game reserve within one of Africa's largest hotel groups, SmartGuest powers the entire guest journey — from pre-arrival through to post-stay loyalty — under the property's own brand. Property details withheld at client's request.

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Where We're Going

The intermediary layer in hospitality is not going away on its own. We're building the platform that makes it irrelevant. Our vision is a world where every hospitality provider — regardless of size, market, or budget — owns a direct, data-rich relationship with every guest they've ever hosted. No commission. No dependency. No middleman between a property and the people who chose it.

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Our Team

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Chris Jones

Founder

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Dimitri Vratsanos

Founder

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Taro Sudkeo

 Developer

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Bongani Shiko

UX & UI Developer

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Joseph Letoaba

QA Tester

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Gopal Gook

Snr Developer

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Carol Castrillon

Business Development
Lead

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Alex Jones

Marketing & Sales

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Pep Camacho

Business Development Spain

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Tracy Franco

Business Development
South Africa

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Pallo Rafutho

Jnr Developer

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Nombuso Dlamini

Jnr Developer

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Steven Makoni

Jnr Developer

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Integration Partners

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Who We Serve

Properties Fighting OTA Dependency
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Boutique hotels, game reserves, wine estates with accommodation who want to own the direct guest relationship.

Experience-led Hospitality Providers
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Properties where the experience itself is the product and the platform becomes part of what makes a stay memorable.

Operational
Modernisers
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Mid-sized hotels and groups looking to reduce costs, replace legacy systems, and standardise the guest experience across properties.

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