You asked for it, and we listened. The past few weeks, Wego affiliate team have been working to rush out new interactive search boxes for you our valued affiliate.

We are pleased to announce the following search boxes to be ready for deployment.

1 - Wego Travel Deals Box

How it works: The deals module lists the top 10 travel deals from Wego. For the results to be relevant, results are displayed via your web audience geography. Therefore users from Singapore will see SG travel deals while users from Australia will only see AU deals.

2 - Individual Search Boxes (Hotels and Flights Only Search Boxes)

How it works: If you are looking for a single vertical offering (hotels or flights) to be placed on a section of your website, this is the tool for you. Now you can place hotels or flights only search boxes on your website.

All these new creatives are live and can be grabbed from the affiliate dashboard (affiliates.wego.com). Simply login, click on interactive search boxes, scroll and you will be able to see the new travel deals and individual search boxes.

FYI - if you are not an affiliate yet, do join us by 31 Dec 2008 as its the last day of our 75% revenue share for 2009 promotion. Thereafter all new affiliates would only have a 50% revenue share. Signup Today

October is near and you will be happy to know that October has 2 public holidays in Singapore, which are on the 1st of Oct - Hari Raya Puasa and the 28th of Oct - Deepavali. If you haven’t planned a short trip yet, here are some vacation ideas that might be of interest.

1 - Take a short shopping trip with your partner in Hongkong. Singapore Airfares to Hongkong starting from SGD $128*.
2 - Relax and enjoy the day at the beaches in Phuket, with Airfares from Singapore to Phuket starting from SGD $290*. 
3 - Visit Tokyo Disneyland and re-live your childhood moments. Flights to Tokyo starting from SGD $250*.

*Prices are subjected to changes. For up to date, real time pricing, do conduct a live search at Wego.com.

Addition of Ctrip, Cleartrip, Oberoi Hotels, Hainan Airlines and Air China brings total travel partners available on Wego.com to 116

SINGAPORE, 8 September 2008 – Asia’s fastest growing travel search engine Wego.com has recently added multiple new airline, hotel, online travel agent and tour operator partners, which will further enhance consumer experience in Internet travel shopping.

Leading the new additions are:

• Ctrip, a leading Chinese online travel agency
• Cleartrip, a leading Indian online travel agency
• Air China, the national flag carrier of China
• Hainan Airlines, a Chinese domestic airline
• Oberoi Hotels, an Indian luxury hotel chain

The addition of these partners brings the total number of travel sites through which Wego users can search and compare prices for air fares, hotel rates and packages to 116.

“We’re thrilled to get so many new partners aboard so soon after we launched Wego in May of this year,” says Craig Hewett, Wego’s Founder and Chief Commercial Officer. “We see the addition of different types of travel sites from all over the region as a sure sign of confidence in Wego and the travel search engine business model.”

Also announced were new partnerships with Excite Holidays, an online travel agency from Australia, Aero International, an online travel agency from Hong Kong and Country Holidays and Easyway Travel, tour operators from Singapore.

Since the site re-branded from Bezurk to Wego in May 2008, there has seen significant traffic growth. For 2008 as a whole, monthly traffic has increased by 2½ times. Wego also recently launched wego.com.au in Australia, the first of many local sites the company will be introducing throughout the Asia Pacific region.

“We are committed to delivering highly qualified and ready-to-buy online travel shoppers to our partners,” adds Hewett. “All throughout Asia Pacific, more and more people are now traveling and using Wego to research and book travel. It’s these Internet savvy, value-conscious travelers that Wego is designed to serve and deliver to our travel partners.”

Content from Excite Holidays, Country Holidays and Easyway Travel can already be found in Wego search results. The rest of the new partners will be integrated in the coming weeks.

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For media queries about this story, please contact:

DEBBIE R COLOMA
PR & Media Consultant for Wego.com
DRC Media Consultancy
Email: debbie.coloma@mac.com

About Wego.com

Wego.com (formerly Bezurk.com) allows travelers to search for flights, hotels, travel deals and travel research across 100+ travel websites in the time that it normally takes to search just one. Wego searches travel websites in real-time so that the latest pricing and availability are shown. Travelers are then linked through to partner websites to book. Wego.com was founded in 2005 by former executives from Intercontinental Hotels Group, Yahoo!, Priceline and ZUJI. News Digital Media, the Australian digital arm of News Limited and part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS), is an investor. In 2007, Business 2.0 magazine named Bezurk as one of “31 of the world’s hottest international web startups”. For more information, please visit www.wego.com/about.