SINGAPORE, September 27th, 2012 – Wego, Asia/Pacific’s leading travel metasearch company has signed a commercial agreement with AirAsiaGo.com, the holiday division of award-winning low cost airline AirAsia. Wego is integrating the portal’s highly competitive hotel listings into over 50 localised sites in 30 languages around the world.
The agreement gives AirAsiaGo the additional bookings from Wego’s millions of monthly metasearch users. Wego adds the AirAsiaGo negotiated rates with over 100,000 hotels into its total inventory of 350,000 accommodation options.
Wego users can simultaneously compare AirAsiaGo hotel rates alongside those of other Wego partners with the option to click through, with deep links, to book direct. It broadens their choice and complements Wego’s flight metasearch featuring AsiaAsia schedules and fares.
Craig Hewett, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Wego commented:
“This is a great partnership. We are delighted to integrate AirAsiaGo’s exceptional hotel deals into all our localised country sites. It supports our mission to help travellers save more time and money online.”
“Wego is a great platform for AirAsiaGo to reach a broader target audience in the markets we are expanding into. We believe our wide range of discounted hotel choices and very simple, easy booking interface, will appeal to the Wego audience,”
added Darren Goh, General Manager of AirAsiaGo.
The AirAsiaGo content is now live in www.wego.com.
For more information, contact:
Caroline Bye
Press Office
Wego Pte Limited
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +65 6438 8242
Justin Low
Head of public relations & social media
AAE Travel Pte Ltd
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +65 6922 3376
About Wego
Wego.com is Asia-Pacific’s leading travel metasearch engine, operating in over 50 markets worldwide and used by millions of travellers to save time, pay less and travel more. The company provides powerful yet simple to use tools that help travellers research trips, compare prices and book travel online. Wego shows users an unbiased and channel neutral view of travel prices, providing users with a choice of booking direct with a hotel or airline, or via an OTA or aggregator site. In Q2-2012 Wego referred in excess of $10 million per day of potential bookings to the websites of it’s travel partners. Wego.com was founded in 2005 by former executives of Yahoo!, InterContinental Hotels Group, Priceline and ZUJI. Shareholders include Tiger Global Management, News Digital Media and OWW Capital Partners. For more information, please visit https://www.wego.com/about