WIN USD 15,000 for 6 people to be won from wego.com – itsReal

WEGO LAUNCHES VIRAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN – WIN A VIP VACATION TO PHUKET

SINGAPORE – Wego, Asia’s fastest growing travel search engine, today launched a viral competition to promote the Wego Deals Newsletter. The prize is a VIP Getaway to Phuket for 6 people. Residents of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, are eligible for the competition. All an entrant has to do is visit the wego.com website to sign up for the wego.com newsletter to receive a chance to win a vacation in Phuket, Thailand, worth USD 15,000 for 6 people.

The prize includes airline tickets, limo service, a luxury villa and a personal butler at the newly built Indochine Resorts and Villas in Phuket. The Indochine Group is renowned throughout SE Asia for its hospitality.

The entrant has an opportunity to invite their friends, say the 5 they want to take with them, should they win the prize, to sign up for the newsletter and competition. Each referred entry qualifies the referrer with two bonus entries in the competition and hence they will stand a greater chance to win.

In order to easily share the competition details with friends, a group has been set up on facebook.com. Simply visit the facebook.com website, then search for “WEGO” or “VIP PHUKET GETAWAY” under Facebook groups. You can “share” the competition this way with your friends or by using the link application and sharing the url http://www.wego.com/vipgetaway for the competition.

The newsletter will inform readers of the best travel deals, hotel stays, packages and flight deals on the market, which will be generated using wego.com’s superior search capabilities, which compare such prices across the board.

Wego.com (formerly Bezurk.com) allows travellers to search for flights, hotels, packages, travel deals and information 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.

To sign up for the newsletter, visit http://www.wego.com/vipgetaway and be entered into the draw immediately. The competition closes on the 31st of May 2009.

Media Contact:

Illka Gobius

About Wego.com

Wego.com (formerly Bezurk.com) allows travelers to search for flights, hotels, packages, travel deals and information 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.

think Immersion Education as it relates to Hospitality…

What does it mean… “in traditional educational instituitons that do not apply the immersion methodology, it is just learning theories in classes and that is it. however in the application of this methodology, the classroom is expanded in the sense that it “throws” the students directly into the industry itself whereby they apply the knowledge that they learn to polish up their skills. in other words it is the application of theories in the practical world as hospitality is not a “book” industry it is a “practical” industry. beyond books it is also the exposure to the environment as well as it is vital that the environment reflects what the students are learning. imagine students learning medicine who do all thier learning in a classroom but when they go into an operating theatre, they are unable to apply the knowledge they have learned .. same concept. i hope this answers your query in the immersion methodology.”

Shiela from the hospitality matters group on facebook believes it is the above… what are you thoughts – visit http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=180280445509 to voice an opinion…

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