23 February 2012, Singapore – Singapore based travel search engine Wego launched www.WEGO.com.sg yesterday making it the first of 34 country sites in 20 different languages. The site offers a complete view of available flights, hotels, travel packages and deals from over 150 travel websites. Wego has an inventory of over 350,000 hotels and over 500 full-service and low cost airlines.
The Singapore site is designed for the needs of Singapore travellers and is available in three languages – English, Bahasa Malay and Simplified Chinese with a Tamil version in the works. You can search and compare the airlines and online travel agents (OTA).
You can also find the best price in the market, including those popular with other Singaporeans, when finding that hotel before your trip.
Several new features have been included into the country specific sites which include Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Turkey, South Africa, USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.
Hotels Popular Search
Hotels are sorted in a given location based on their popularity with local users since users from different countries have different preferences. This lets you check out hotels that are popular with other users from your country.
DateWise Fare Finder
Find the cheapest dates to fly if your schedules are flexible. This is achieved through Wego’s data-mining and then summarising graphical from the volumes of flight search queries passing through the engine daily.
Flight Schedules
If timing of your flights is important when selecting flights, Wego has a tool that shows schedules for all direct flights worldwide. You can also see the codesharing details and aircraft type for each flight. After picking a flight, you can check the fares and seat availability.
Popular Destinations
Based on analysis of Wego’s database, country-specific lists of the most popular destinations have been determined. These destinations are promoted on the homepage of each country site so that you will always know what the best airfare specials are to get there.
History of Wego
Wego has its headquarters here and was founded in 2005 by ex ECommerce Lead of Intercontinental Hotels Group Ross Veitch and business partner Craig Hewett who was a senior executive at Yahoo!. With its core team here and the platform 100% Made in Singapore, Wego realises an early mover advantage in the region.
Wego has also integrated white label platforms used by portals including Yahoo!, ViaSingapore.com, YourSingapore, MSN and Detik and ninemsn from Australia to integrate Wego’s travel search functionality into their own travel sites.
WEGO Pte Ltd in Singapore is helmed by a new Chief Executive Officer Ross Veitch since January this year with the office located at Bugis Junction Tower.
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