Singapore -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/19/2011 -- DestinAsian, an award-winning travel magazine, has chosen Wego.com to provide its readers with the best and most neutral travel site to research and compare hotels and flights direct from the Destinasian.com home page.

Users can now identify the best airfares — including low-cost carriers — and accommodation, clicking through to book live from multiple partner sites as part of a free service from trusted Wego.com. Wego compares live availability in a single search, including aggregated hotel reviews to ensure the information provided is unbiased.

This was important to DestinAsian in that it matched the publication's journalistic integrity. DestinAsian was looking for a partner to present its readers with all possible options.

"We believe our readers are always on the lookout for places to visit not only in Asia but across the world, whether it is for business or leisure," said Ronald Liem, the publisher of DestinAsian. "While reading an interesting article about a particular destination on DestinAsian.com, they might find it useful and interesting to search for the best flights and hotels in that destination too. We want to offer not only engaging content to our readers but also other services to help them in their search."

For Wego, this partnership is also a natural fit in that the users of Wego.com and the readers of DestinAsian have a great deal in common. As Allister Barretto, affiliate manager at Wego.com explained: "A high concentration of Wego users are researching leisure travel in South East Asia, so we have the richest content and widest choice in this part of the world. If readers find a destination featured in DestinAsian interesting, they can now arrange to go themselves direct from DestinAsian.com."

Users can click on the right side of the home page to book flights and accommodation through DestinAsian. They can then begin to plan their own personal itinerary, powered by Wego.com.

About Wego
Wego.com allows travellers to search for flights, hotels, packages, travel deals and travel research across 130+ 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, Yahoo!, Priceline and ZUJI. Investors include News Digital Media and Tiger Global. In November 2010, Wego merged with HolidayIQ, an Indian based travel content and community site.

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

About DestinAsian
DestinAsian provides information and inspiration to travelers planning their next journey. Whether in the pages of its magazine or postings on its website (or in email newsletters or Twitter or Facebook updates), our editors deliver a world of travel possibilities. Since its founding in 2001, DestinAsian magazine has consistently won prestigious awards for editorial and photographic excellence from SOPA (the Society of Publishers in Asia) and other organizations. Visit http://www.destinasian.com for more information.

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Singapore -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/19/2011 -- Award-winning travel magazine DestinAsian has released its 8th annual Luxe List, showcasing the best new hotels and resorts to open in the Asia-Pacific region this past year. Each of the selected properties was visited by one of the magazine's contributors and subsequently vetted by its editorial staff, who combed through dozens of candidate establishments before choosing the final list based on criteria such as design, service, location, and ambience.

Says DestinAsian Editor-in-Chief and Associate Publisher, Christopher Hill, "It's a leaner Luxe List than last year's, with, surprisingly, no entries from Australia and New Zealand. But the results are no less exciting, and certainly no less luxe—that rare convergence of style and substance that sets a place well above the rest. We have every confidence that these properties have all the makings of instant classics."

A total of 36 new hotels and resorts are featured on the 2011 Luxe List, spanning 13 countries and ranging in size and style from a private villa in Chiang Mai to a rambling 19th-century palace in Hyderabad. They are:

China
- Four Seasons Hotel, Hangzhou at West Lake, Hangzhou
- Hotel Icon, Hong Kong
- Hotel Indigo Shanghai on the Bund, Shanghai
- Pullman Lijiang Resort & Spa, Lijiang
- Renaissance Sanya Resort & Spa, Hainan
- Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- St. Regis Lhasa Resort, Tibet
- Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund, Shanghai

French Polynesia
- Maitai Lapita Village, Huahine

India
- Devi Ratn, Jaipur
- Leela Palace Kempinski, New Delhi
- Rasa Jaipur, Jaipur
- Samode Safari Lodge, Bandhavgarh
- Saratha Villas, Chettinad
- Taj Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad
- The Oberoi, Gurgaon, New Delhi

Indonesia
- W Retreat & Spa Bali – Seminyak, Bali

Japan
- Capitol Hotel Tokyu, Tokyo
- Hotel Kanra, Kyoto
- St. Regis Osaka, Osaka

Laos
- Kiridara, Luang Prabang

Malaysia
- Muntri Mews, Penang

Maldives
- Anantara Kihavah Villas, Ba'a Atoll
- Six Senses Laamu, Laamu Atoll

Singapore
- Hotel Fort Canning

Taiwan
- W Taipei, Taipei

Thailand
- Hansar Bangkok, Bangkok
- Howie's Homestay, Chiang Mai
- St. Regis Bangkok, Bangkok
- Thanyamundra Organic Resort, Khao Sak
- W Retreat Koh Samui, Koh Samui

United Arab Emirates
- One & Only The Palm, Dubai

Vietnam
- An Lam Ninh Van Bay Villas, Nha Trang
- Fusion Maia, Danang
- Hotel del' Opera, Hanoi
- Six Senses Con Dao, Con Dao

About DestinAsian
The DestinAsian Media Group was founded in Jakarta in 2001 by Ronald Liem, both Publisher and Managing Director of the Group. DestinAsian is a bimonthly publication with a readership of more than 124,000. DestinAsian magazine has consistently won prestigious awards for editorial and photographic excellence from SOPA (the Society of Publishers in Asia) and other organizations. It is distributed to affluent travelers through newsstands, in-flight, both digital and print subscription, and controlled circulation throughout the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Key markets include Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The publication targets those individuals who not only enjoy travel but who also appreciate the finer things in life. Visit http://www.destinasian.com for more information.

About the DestinAsian Luxe List
The DestinAsian Luxe List is an annual compilation of the newest style-savvy and luxurious hotel and resort properties in Asia-Pacific as assembled by the DestinAsian editorial team.

Visit http://www.destinasian.com/the-luxe-list/luxe-list-2011/ for more details.

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