From 2024 ICRS: Rental Car Market Overview
Seeking Agenda Ideas for ICRS 2025
The International Car Rental Show is accepting proposals for its content as it opens the Call for Papers period.
October 22, 2024
The 2025 International Car Rental Show is less than six months away. Attendees may now suggest session and presentation topics.
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The world’s leading car rental show seeks creative, insightful, and engaging ideas for its educational sessions.
Can you recommend topics, presentations, speakers, panelists, and formats? Then check out our Call for Papers registration for the 2025 International Car Rental Show.
Enter your proposals by Dec. 6, 2024, and we’ll consider them for an agenda focused on the state of today's global rental car industry with intelligence and information about the latest trends and drivers of your business performance.
ICRS is the leading hotspot for rental car industry networking and mingling for business. Don't miss out.
Photo: Ross Stewart / Stewart Digital Media
The Show, supported by the American Car Rental Association as a lead partner, will be held April 14-16 at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. ICRS draws independent and franchised car rental operators from around the world.
Audiences seek solid, reliable information on how to run their businesses better and improve bottom lines.
Topics can delve into operations, finances, fleet purchasing and remarketing, data security, AI technologies, customer services, sales and marketing, rules and regulations, and economic impacts.
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