Posted in Uncategorized 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’,” [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Tourism on Nov 30th, 2008
Arrivals of foreign tourists to Spain, the world’s second biggest tourist destination, plummeted in November as top customers Britons and Germans stayed at home during the global economic slowdown. Arrivals fell 11.6 percent in the month from a year earlier, the first double-digit decline in years, with British visitors down 15 percent and 7 percent [...]
