All Press Releases for 22 April, 2009
Travel Search Engine Wego Turns the Ignition with Car Rentals
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Wego 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.  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: “Wego.com’s car rental search product delivers choice and simplicity and removes the frustration of having to shop across multiple sites. 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.” • 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 Car Rentals 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. ### Bookmark - Del.icio.us | Digg | Furl It | Spurl | RawSugar | Simpy | Shadows | Blink It | My Web Other Releases by this Member
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