Sydney, 9th November, 2009 - Travel comparison site Wego.com.au today launched a revolutionary new type of hotel review product, empowering travellers to quickly pull hotel reviews from all across the internet – but only read the ones of direct interest to them.

 Wego’s new cutting-edge review system aggregates and sorts reviews from across hundreds of websites.  It then drills down to determine how positive or negative the review is … and why.  The result is an overall “guest satisfaction” score, as well as separate sub-scores for filters such as “rooms”, “location”, “cleanliness”, “family friendly”, etc.

 Some of these filters are fixed and present for all hotels. Others appear only when they are often mentioned in reviews.  A hotel with a great spa, for instance, will have a separate score for “spa.”  These filters appear in an intuitive tag cloud, allowing users to simply click on any term of interest. 

 All reviews and guest satisfaction scores are supported by review snippets, in which the relevant bits can be read quickly and easily.  If a user wants to read the full review, they simply click on the snippet. 

 The entire interface is designed to put the relevant information front and centre, and allow the user to simply point and click to learn more about topics of interest to them.  Wego does all the hard work for the traveller by pulling reviews from hundreds of leading sites and presenting a snapshot of opinion.

 Wego founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Craig Hewett said, “Wego’s new hotel reviews fill a massive gap in the online travel shopping experience.  Consumers don’t like being forced to wade through hundreds of reviews to find one that seems relevant to them.  No other site can get as many relevant reviews in front of the user so quickly.”

 “We believe this offering will also benefit hotel operators as they can see a valuable snapshot of the experience their valued customers have had with their business.”

 “We are excited to be launching this offering and giving consumers access to the best information available on hotels. It is part of our continued investment in the Wego product and our commitment to delivering travellers with the best experience available online,” Mr Hewett said.  

The new hotel review product can be viewed at: www.wego.com.au/hotels

For more information, please contact:

Kate McQuestin ‐ Wego.com.au

T: 02 8114 7552

M: 0419 591 150

kate@mcqmedia.com

About Wego.com

Wego.com allows travellers 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. Travellers 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. For more information,

please visit http://www.wego.com/about.

Singapore, 22nd April 2009 – Asia’s leading travel search engine today added car rental search to its product range, allowing consumers to shop for the best rental cars deals across multiple leading rental car sites in just one click.  The addition of car rentals means that Wego now offers the broadest product range of any Asia Pacific search engine, covering flights, hotels, packages, activities and travel deals.

Wego.com’s integrated search results display enables the consumer to compare real time pricing and availability of rental cars from more than 10 suppliers on a single web-page while the range of sort and filter options allow users to quickly find the product most suited to their specific needs.

The new Wego car rental search engine includes features such as:

• A user friendly Matrix Display that allows for quick side by side comparison of available cars and prices directly from car rental companies such as Avis, Budget, Hertz ,Europcar & Thrifty and through multiple online agency sites
• Multiple, intuitive and easy-to-use sort and filter tools
• The ability to search by key product features such as air conditioning and automatic transmission.
• Searching for airport only locations or airport and city locations together.
• Searching by one, multiple or all car categories (economy, compact, convertible & luxury etc.)

Lynn Marchant, National Leisure Sales Manager for Thrifty Australia stated “We are constantly working to bring consumers the best car hire deals and prices by updating our Thrifty website with specials. Wego is a great platform to extend these same deals to a broader audience beyond our own website.”

Wego will continue to add more car rental brands and agency sites.” Wego.com’s car rental search product delivers choice and simplicity and removes the frustration of having to shop across multiple sites,” said Craig Hewett, Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Wego.com. “Along with our hotel and air products, Wego allows online travel shoppers to search for flights, hotels and package deals across more than a hundred travel sites in the time that it takes to search just one. That means Wego can find the best product to buy and connect users to the best place to buy it in real time, within seconds.”   

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.. For more information, please visit http://www.wego.com/about.

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