SINGAPORE, October 31st, 2012 – Wego, the leading travel metasearch site in Asia Pacific and the Middle East, has signed a commercial agreement with Resorts World Sentosa who own and operate the immensely popular 49-hectare mega resort on Singapore’s holiday island of Sentosa. The agreement integrates the resort’s accommodation offers and packages into more than 50 Wego country sites around the world.
From today, users can compare and book the best rates and package deals for Festive Hotel, Equarius Hotel, Hard Rock Hotel Singapore, Hotel Michael and Beach Villas and enjoy an ever-expanding list of attractions such as Universal Studios Singapore®, the Maritime Experiential Museum and coming later this year – the resort’s second anchor attraction, the world’s largest oceanarium, Marine Life Park.
Resorts World Sentosa joins Wego to scale up and showcase its dynamic range of hospitality and entertainment options across multiple short and long-haul feeder markets. Resorts World Sentosa’s Senior Vice President of Group Sales and Marketing, Edward Goh commented:
“This partnership with Wego will help Resorts World Sentosa to reach out to a wider audience in the Asia Pacific region. We are confident this will establish Resorts World Sentosa as the most amazing attractions destination in Asia.”
Wego Chief Commercial Officer, Craig Hewett added:
“We are delighted to be working with Resorts World Sentosa and assist in attracting more tourists to Singapore for this must-see destination. We will be closely tracking the response to the integration of these hotels and the related marketing efforts.”
Wego powers the hotels and flights search engine for Singapore’s official tourist portal – YourSingapore.com. Potential visitors to the integrated resort can now easily check availability and offers at Resorts World Sentosa hotels.
Wego.com provides powerful yet simple to use tools that help travellers research trips, compare prices and book travel online. Wego displays 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.
For more information, contact:
Caroline Bye
Press Office
Wego Pte Limited
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +65 6438 8242
About Wego
Wego.com is APAC and MENA’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 Q3-2012 Wego referred in excess of $1.2 Billion of potential bookings to the websites of its 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
About Resorts World
Sentosa Resorts World Sentosa (RWS), Singapore’s first integrated resort is located on the resort island of Sentosa. Spanning 49 hectares, the resort opened in January 2010 and welcomed over 30 million visitors in its first two years of opening. RWS is home to the region’s first-and-only Universal Studios theme park, the Maritime Experiential Museum, a casino, luxurious accommodation in six unique hotels, the Resorts World Convention Centre, celebrity chef restaurants, a world-class destination spa as well as specialty retail outlets. The resort also offers entertainment including public attractions such as the Crane Dance and the Lake of Dreams. Coming soon is the world’s largest oceanarium – the Marine Life Park. Resorts World Sentosa is wholly owned by Genting Singapore, a company of the Genting Group. For more information, please visit www.rwsentosa.com.