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Global Car Rental Research and Markets

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Global Car Rental to their offering. According to their press release Global Car Rental industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the car rental industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, demographic information, and descriptions of the leading companies. Scope of this title: - Contains an executive ...

Gas fees for Car Rental dont make cents

Tom Parsons of Dallas Morning News writes about the gas fees that many or almost all the car rental companies charge in many different ways.Parsons gives a very detailed picture and advices as to how to avoid these charges from the rental car companies. His article published in san jose mercury news under travel section reveals these gas charges... Whenever I rent a car, I'm amazed at how many fees are tacked on: a variety of taxes, additional equipment costs and the insurance you probably d...

Car Rental- Avis Budget Group Results for 2006

As per the press release by Avis Budget Group,Inc here are the results for 4th Qtr of 2006 and full year results. Full-year revenue increased 5%, to a record $5.7 billion. Avis Budget Car Rental generated full-year pro forma EBITDA of $405 million and pro forma pretax income of $172 million. Avis Budget Car Rental generated full-year pretax income of $190 million. Avis Budget Car Rental's fourth quarter revenues of $1.3 billion and pro forma EBITDA of $88 million were in line...

Exotic Car Rental Directory

The Rent Exotic Cars Network (www.RentExoticCars.net) has added a new directory devoted to exotic and luxury car clubs. Exotic Car Clubs (www.ExoticCarClubs.com) includes both exotic car share clubs and fractional ownership exotic car clubs. “This type of directory website doesn’t exist anywhere else,” says Cheryl Lyman, webmaster and president of CS Publications (www.cspublications.com). “Once we launched www.RentExoticCars.net, many exotic car clubs asked to be listed,” says Lym...

Car Rentals-Car Seat Conundrum

As reported on washinton post dated February 18, 2007, Sheri Annis of Chevy Chase arrived at the Hertz counter in the Los Angeles airport with luggage and a tired toddler, expecting that, as in the past, a Hertz employee would help her install the child safety seat she'd reserved along with a car. But the policy has changed, she was told, and assistance is neither available nor allowed. She was handed the seat "A kind employee said he would try to help me," Annis says. "When another employe...

Avis Europe patners with SkyEurope

Avis Europe has announced an exclusive three-year partnership with SkyEurope, one of the fastest growing European low cost passenger airlines, covering destinations throughout Central and Western Europe, and the UK. From 1st February 2007, SkyEurope customers booking through the airline’s website, skyeurope.com, can reserve a rental car with Avis. With rental locations at every SkyEurope destination, including Bratislava, Warsaw, Prague, Vienna, Rome, Barcelona, London and Manchester, Avis ...

Best Car Rental Company in Europe

Sixt AG, Germany's largest car rental company and one of the leading vendor-neutral and non-bank full-service leasing providers, has won the renowned "Business Traveller Award 2006" in the category of "Best Car Rental Company in Europe". According to this ranking, Sixt clearly surpassed the competition in fulfilling the central quality and performance criteria for car rental in Europe, among them a top price/performance ratio, an easy and straight-forward rental process, high vehicle quality a...