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www.travelweeklyweb.com www.travelweeklyweb.com JUNE 2014 | TRAVELWeekly AsiA ■ | 17 at a glance S I N G A P O R E – W e g o , t h e leading travel search site in the Asia Pacific and Middle East, along with big data and travel review partner, TrustYou, have revealed a comparison of hotel reviews between three large global regions: APAC, North America and Europe/ Middle East/Africa. The Asia Pacific region, which i n c o r p o r a t e s A u s t r a l i a / N e w Zealand, North and Southeast Asia, came out on top scoring 85.8 percent overall in 16 categories that included service, facilities, food, romance, luxury, romance, nightlife, price and more. Details at-a-glance in the infographics as show. Wego reveals the geographic region with the best hotel reviews The country is Southeast Asia's largest smartphone market with a 68% sales increase in Q1 2014. JAKARTA – Wego's recently launched iOS travel app has now hit top position in Indonesia's iTunes App Store under the travel segment. A convenient extension of the popular travel search platform, Wego's free travel app has been designed to instantly provide users with hundreds of airfares and hotel rates available online in 20 languages (including Bahasa Indonesia), on one, simple to use app. Wego's App hits No. 1 in Indonesia's iTunes App Store Wego's travel app features easy, gestured navigation, advanced filtering and sorting options, clear and concise images, a highly optimised logic for lower data and battery consumption and the convenient option to email travel search results to a friend, or for subsequent booking at a later time. According to We Are Social as at January this year, around 80 million Indonesians were active mobile users; 95 per cent of users researched products on their smartphones, and 57 per cent made purchases through mobile. e27 reported just last week that sales volume results in the first quarter of 2014 saw Indonesian smartphone purchases reaching over 7.3 million units, a 25 per cent year on year growth. Currently Indonesia leads as the largest smartphone market in Southeast Asia with a 68 per cent sales increase in Q1 2014.