CEO interview: Wego eyes Middle East expansion to tap into $1.4trln business travel market

CEO interview: Wego eyes Middle East expansion to tap into $1.4trln business travel market

Wego, the online travel marketplace with dual headquarters in Singapore and Dubai, is eyeing further expansion in the Middle East and North Africa region with the launch of its corporate travel unit, WegoPro. Corporate travel sector is expected to reach $1.4 trillion worldwide in 2024, according to data by industry thinktank, the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). Wego has dual headquarters in Dubai and Singapore. Image courtesy of Dubai Media Office. Wego CEO and Co-founder Ross Veitch told Zawya the MENA region currently accounts for 80% of the company’s business, which is currently active across 80 markets. “The rollout of WegoPro in the GCC was a natural choice for us because the region is our core business, and the sort of countries that people from here tend to travel to has by extension become very big markets for us, which is why we have been focusing keenly on India, Pakistan, Turkey, and of course, Southeast Asia in our expansion drive,” he said. The new platform offers a range of flight and hotel inventory to simplify the process of booking business travel. Advanced machine learning and AI-driven personalisation allows the platform to tailor experiences for companies and their employees. WegoPro is