Travel search engine Wego turns the ignition with car rentals

Travel search engine Wego turns the ignition with car rentals

Asia’s leading travel search engine, Wego, today added car rental search to its product range, allowing consumers to shop for the best 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’s integrated search results display enables the consumer to quickly find the car most suited to their needs at the best price.

The new Wego car rental search engine’s features include:

• A quick side by side comparison of available cars and prices from more than 10 suppliers including Avis, Budget, Hertz, Europcar and Thrifty and through multiple online agency sites
• The ability to search by key product features such as air conditioning and automatic transmission The ability to search for airport only locations or airport and city locations together.
• The ability to search by one, multiple or all car categories eg economy, convertible or luxury

Lynn Marchant, National Leisure Sales Manager for Thrifty Australia said “We regularly post special deals on the Thrifty website. Wego’s new search engine allows us to extend these same deals to a much bigger audience.”

Craig Hewett, founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Wego said that the company would add more car rental brands and agency sites over the coming months.

 “Wego’s new car rental search product delivers choice and simplicity, removing the frustration of having to browse multiple sites.

“Along with our hotel and air products, Wego.com.au allows online travel shoppers to search more than a hundred travel sites in the time that it takes to search just one.”