Wego voted Best Asia/Pacific Online Travel Agency Website

October 26, 2015
, by wego admin

Singapore, 26 October, 2015Wego.com, the leading travel search site in the Asia Pacific and Middle East, has been voted Best Asia/Pacific Online Travel Agency Website, at the 8th TravelMole – ITB Asia Web Awards 2015.

The award ceremony took place at ITB Asia in Singapore which was attended by over 10,000 travel industry professionals, from 110 countries.

“We’re thrilled to receive the award for Best Asia/Pacific Online Travel Agency Website,” said Ross Veitch, CEO and co-founder of Wego. “Even though Wego is not an OTA in the strictest sense, we do appreciate that the category has been widened to allow consideration of travel metas. This award is fabulous recognition for the hard work and continued innovation from everybody at Wego over the last year.”

Wego co-founder and CEO, Ross Veitch accepting the award at ITB

Wego co-founder and CEO, Ross Veitch accepting the award at ITB

The judging criteria focussed on excellence in online travel, effective online engagement, considering all components which make a website stand out.

Wego received the most votes in the category, which was won by Expedia last year, beating out fellow finalists Kayak and Yatra.

“Singapore has become the centre of the travel world this month, with business leaders and innovators from the travel sector attending ITB Asia, WebInTravel and more at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre,” added Veitch. “It’s been made even more inspiring by receiving this award for Wego, the second in one week, having also won the ‘Content Magician’ category at WebInTravel’s WITovation awards with campaign partner Tourism Australia.”

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About Wego
Wego.com is the leading travel search engine across the Asia-Pacific and Middle East and is used by millions of travellers each month to save time, pay less and travel more. The company provides powerful yet simple to use tools that help travellers research trips, compare prices for flights and hotels across multiple websites, and to book travel online. Wego shows users an unbiased and channel neutral view of travel prices, providing a choice of booking direct with a hotel or airline, or via an online travel agent or aggregator. For more information, visit https://www.wego.com/about.