Last week during one of our monthly meetings, a group of us were asked to poll which was the favorite holiday destination for travelers in Sydney. We all chipped in and I thought why not open this poll up to everyone, it might be a fun exercise just to see what we feel is the top travel destination for citizens in a particular city.

This is a 1st of a series of weekly polls that Wego will be posting in the coming months. The poll would run for 7 days and at the end of each poll, we will release the results together with our internal search data to see determine the winning destination.

Update: Here are the results of the poll – The city with most number of votes is Melbourne, Australia with 27%. Followed by Bali, Indonesia with 22%. And now for the moment of truth, if you have selected Melbourne, you are right! In Sept 2009, Wego search data for travelers orignating from Sydney, Australia had Melbourne as their most searched city.

Wego City pair search for Sept 2009 (Fig 2)

Win a holiday adventure for four!

Travel comparison site, Wego.com.au has launched its biggest promotion since entering the Australian market.

The promotion, titled ‘Holiday Entourage’, gives Australians the chance to win a holiday adventure for four, including airfares, valued at $20,000. To enter the competition, readers simply sign up to Wego’s Weekly Travel Hot Deals Newsletter at www.wego.com.au/contests/entourage

Thanks to G.A.P Adventures the winner will take three friends on one of six trips:

- 8 days on a Tanzania Wildlife Adventure

- 13 days enjoying Ultimate Italy

- 15 days in beautiful Costa Rica

- 10 days Sailing the Greek Islands

- 13 days on an Egypt Family Adventure

- 15 days experiencing the Best of Bali and Lombok

The promotion is supported by a substantial online and press campaign.

Wego.com.au’s local marketing manager Sam Lindner said that the promotion aimed to highlight the enjoyment of sharing travel experiences with friends or family.

“Many of life’s most colourful and lasting memories are created whilst travelling, but we rarely get the opportunity to share them with more than one other person. Thanks to Wego, Australians now have the chance to spend the trip of a lifetime with three of their nearest and dearest.

“We’ll take care of the travel planning and costs. All you have to do is choose the entourage you want to share the adventure with.”

For more details about the competition which is live until May 31, please visit: http://www.wego.com.au.

For more information, please contact:

Vida Redoblado – Wego.com.au

T: 02 811 7325

M: 0401 435 309

vida.redoblado@newsdigitalmedia.com.au

About Wego.com

Wego.com (formerly Bezurk.com) allows travelers to search for flights, hotels, packages, 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 (NYSE: IHG), Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Priceline (NASDAQ: PCLN) 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 http://www.wego.com/about.