SINGAPORE, September 10th, 2012 – Wego.com, the Asia-Pacific’s leading travel search engine today unveiled a completely redesigned version of it’s popular Deals feature that always lists the hottest travel deals available in a market at any given time. The new Deals feature is immediately available on all 42 Wego country sites worldwide, but only in the English language editions initially.
The new Wego Deals site, available at www.wego.com/deals, features a Pinterest inspired design that takes a photo driven approach to showcasing travel deals on an endlessly refreshing page.
Consumers who want to receive advance notice of new travel deals can sign up for a free newsletter delivered weekly as part of a priority service to Wego users in selected countries.
Wego’s professional editors led by travel industry veteran and Wego CMO, Dean Wicks, uncover the best and more unusual deals from multiple partners such as online travel agents Expedia, Viva! Holidays, cruise operators Ecruising and Seven Oceans, airlines like Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways, KLM and Virgin Australia, adventure operators including Intrepid Travel and G Adventures as well as Agoda, Splendia and many more specialists.
“With a great selection of thousands of travel deals, the new Deals site is a complete menu of mouth-watering travel opportunities,”
commented Wicks.
“Any travel company that has a fabulous deal that they want to tell consumers about should get in touch with the Wego Deals team.”
Deals are sourced from all markets and for all destinations globally. Deals are categorised by product type, (eg, flight, hotel, package, cruise, etc), budget, destination as well as themes such as beach, escape, weekend, romantic and boutique.
Wego Deals was originally launched as a fully automated travel deals aggregation service, like Google News, but focused on surfacing the best offers for flights, hotels, package tours, cruises and more. Travel industry experts working as editors were then added to the mix, to manually scour the internet looking for the best travel deals.
“Having now experimented with both expert and machine based approaches, our experience has shown that a thoughtful combination of both algorithmic selection augmented with human judgement is the best approach to curation in a space as fast moving, subjective and market-specific as travel deals,”
explained Jasmine Lim, Wego’s Director of Product Management and Partner Integration.
Analysis has shown that it is becoming an increasingly common behaviour for users to find a deal on Wego Deals and then match it with flights or accommodation found via Wego’s metasearch offering.
For more information, contact:
Anita Duffin
Travel Editor & Community Manager
Wego Pte Limited
Email: [email protected]
For travel industry enquiries, contact:
Dean Wicks
Tel: +65 6438 8324
Email: [email protected]
About Wego
Wego.com is Asia-Pacific’s leading travel metasearch engine, operating in 42 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