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Budget Las Vegas Franchisee Chooses RateGain

Malco Enterprises Nevada has selected RateGain's AI-powered revenue management platform.

January 21, 2022
Budget Las Vegas Franchisee Chooses RateGain

RateGain’s revAI platform leverages about 25 real-time demand indicators to understand the market potential and adjust pricing by car segment, channel, and location. The platform was launched at the 2021 International Car Rental Show. 

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RateGain Travel Technologies Limited (RateGain), a provider of SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, announced that Las Vegas car rental company and Budget Rent A Car franchisee, Malco Enterprises of Nevada, Inc. (Malco), has selected the company to drive business recovery with the AI-powered revenue management platform – revAI.

RateGain’s revAI platform will help Malco Enterprises leverage about 25 real-time demand indicators to understand the market potential and adjust pricing by car segment, channel, and location. Malco will also get a price optimization module to help capture the extra market share through an AI-driven-price recommendation engine while giving visibility into their current revenue achievement in the ongoing Financial year. 

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“When you are dealing with uncertainty, the ideal partner is one that can both provide real-time insights as well as a plan of action to use those insights to drive business recovery," said Tom Mallo, chief executive officer of Malco, in a statement. With RateGain’s revAI platform we get both with an additional advantage of a cutting edge platform powered by AI which makes it possible for every car rental to maximize revenue opportunity.”

“As the car rental industry recovers from COVID-19, we are certain that AI is going to be a critical enabler for addressing the gaps created by COVID and that is the core philosophy of revAI," added Siddhartha Kothari, general manager and EVP for revAI, RateGain. "As a long time partner to Malco, we are delighted that they gave us the opportunity to partner with them on creating new revenue and build a world-class example of AI-powered recovery for other car rentals to follow.”

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