Posted in Car Rental on Mar 17th, 2009
The transfer buses that connect Heathrow’s airport terminals with the Hertz rental car depot keep arriving and departing at regular intervals. It was not always so. For years the service was both slow and chaotic, until Hertz asked the drivers for ideas on how to improve it.
“We sat down and said ‘let’s question it’,” [...]
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Posted in Car Rental on Feb 1st, 2009
A cherry red Mini Cooper convertible enjoyed center stage at Hertz’s recent launch of a car-sharing service in New York, London and Paris — the most ambitious step yet into that market by a traditional car rental company.
Like existing car-sharing companies, Hertz Global Holdings is placing cars in a variety of locations that members of [...]
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Posted in Car Rental on Jan 27th, 2009
Amadeus says it has become the first company in the car rental industry to go 100% electronic for reservations with all car rental companies worldwide.
The technology company says its entire network of agencies can now use e-vouchers, first launched in December 2006, giving access to 24 global car rental companies in 36,000 rental locations worldwide.
Marcos [...]
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Posted in Car Rental on Jan 8th, 2009
Car sales in Spain plummeted by 28 percent last year, the worst slump on record, manufacturers said Monday. Automobile trade association ANFAC said 1.16 million vehicles were sold in 2008, down from 1.61 million the previous year.
Looking at monthly figures, the association also said sales flopped by 49.9 percent to 72,377 in December, compared to [...]
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Posted in Car Rental on Oct 1st, 2008
Few Spaniards would sacrifice their annual summer vacation. But while Spain’s beaches are still busy, shops and restaurants at its resorts are ominously quiet as the country’s economic crisis envelops the tourism industry.
After 50 years of uninterrupted growth, Spain’s overbuilt and relatively expensive resorts seem ill-placed to cope with a downturn, at a time of [...]
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Tenerife is the biggest of the Canary Islands. Its capital and port Santa Cruz de Tenerife is located in the north of the island. You can spend your holidays in the green and cooler north in Puerto de la Cruz or in Los Cristianos and Playas de las Americas in the sunnier and drier south. [...]
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Posted in Car Rental on Jun 25th, 2008
Seville is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Sevilla. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an avarage elevation of 7 metres above sea level. It is a city with an important religious architecture, which includes many [...]
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Posted in Car Rental on Apr 14th, 2008
Among the best places to visit in Europe we often find ourselves quoting the beautiful country of Portugal, this is a beautiful place bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and islands which are also part of the country, Madeira and Azores. To the south of this country we find the attractive municipality of Faro, which is [...]
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Posted in Car Rental on Mar 31st, 2008
Mallorca Son Sant Joan airport is located only 8 kilometres west of the capital city, Palma de Mallorca. The terminal building offers all the services of a major international airport. The airport brings about 20 million passengers every year to the island and Son Sant Joan is the the third busiest airport in Spain. The aforemetioned tourist [...]
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Posted in Car Rental on Mar 20th, 2008
The first and most important advice is that you should never be blinded by a cheap, fabulous day rate for the rental vehicle you’re planning to book in Spain. Depending on your travel destination a lot off extra charges may apply, like airport surcharges, insurance, sales taxes, licensing fees, local and state taxes, concession recovery [...]
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