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Middle East: More travellers taking quick breaks during Ramadan and Eid

wego® MENA TRAVEL TRENDS Ramadan + Eid Fitr 2015 TOP Flights, Hotels and Destinations 10 TOP Flights, Hotels and Destinations 10 2014 2015 Flights (MENA) Hotels (KSA) Hotels (UAE) Flights (MENA) Hotels (KSA) Hotels (UAE) 1. Cairo 1. Mecca 1. Dubai 1. Cairo 1. Mecca 1. Dubai 2. Istanbul 2. Dubai 2. Abu Dhabi 2. Jeddah 2. Jeddah 2. Mecca 3. Jakarta 3. Jeddah 3. Hurghada 3. Istanbul 3. Dubai 3. Abu Dhabi 4. Jeddah 4. Istanbul 4. Sharjah 4. Jakarta 4. Istanbul 4. Istanbul. 5. Dubai 5. Riyadh 5. Fujairah 5. Dubai 5. Medina 5. Hurghada 6. Kuala Lumpur 6. Sharm al sheikh 6. Salalah 6. Riyadh 6. Cairo 6. Bangkok 7. Medina 7. Riyadh 8. Trabzon 7. Riyadh 7. Mecca 7. Cairo 7. Alexandria 8. Alexandria 8. Cairo 8. Sharm al sheikh 8. Amman 8. Sharm alshekh 9. Amman 9. Trabzon 9. Bangkok 9. Kuala Lumpur 9. Sharm alshekh 9. Sharjah 10. Bangkok 10. Hurghada 10. Istanbul 10. Khartoum 10. Kuala lumpur 10. London

Middle East: More travellers taking quick breaks during Ramadan and Eid

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Middle East travellers are making more last minute, quick break, travel decisions during Ramadan and Eid, revealed Wego, the leading travel search site in the Middle East and Asia Pacific. “This ye... ar, last minute travel searches jumped significantly for the period leading up to Ramadan,” commented Mamoun Hmedan, Managing Director of Wego MENA and India. “Ramadan began at an earlier time, coinciding closely with school holidays and the summer vacation period. It’s possible that some travellers were caught off guard, accustomed to more travel planning time.” “The earlier timing hasn’t negatively affected the number of travel searches; conversely Wego has recorded an increase in searches overall by 224 per cent (Hotels up 257 per cent, Flights up 220 per cent) over the same period last year.” The majority of Wego’s large increases in flights and hotel searches were generated through the ‘Wego Flights & Hotels’ travel app for iOS and Android. “More than 75 per cent of bookings on Wego in MENA begin from a mobile device. Wego’s travel apps for iOS and Android are extremely popular in MENA, regularly ranking number one in Saudi Arabia for both platforms over the last 12 months, and amongst the top five preferred travel apps across the region,” said Hmedan. “We are constantly improving the smartphone user experience adding new features tailored to making searching and booking travel as personal and convenient as possible, while fully localised for the MENA market.”