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NewsAugust 17, 2012

Hertz Qatar Launches Website for Customers in the Middle East

Hertz Qatar has released online booking platforms, including a mobile optimized site and a new website.

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NewsAugust 17, 2012

High Life Auto Rental Redesigns Website

High Life Auto Rental is a car rental provider focused on being a one-stop travel portal for the Scottsdale market in Arizona.

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NewsJuly 30, 2012

Avis Car Rental and Hertz Join Concur Open Booking

The Concur Open Booking option is a corporate travel option that allows business travelers to book hotels and rental cars outside Concur Travel by capturing and providing all travel transaction data to Concur Travel & Expense.

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NewsJuly 18, 2012

Is the Rental Car Industry Heading Toward Disruption Because of Intellectual Property?

Patent experts from ipCapital Group, an intellectual property consulting firm, discuss how the surge of rental car-related patents not held by rental car companies is a concerning fact and makes rental car companies susceptible to intellectual property threats from outside their typical competitors.

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NewsJuly 16, 2012

CarTrawler Releases Open Source Facebook App

CarTrawler launches an open source version of their global car rental platform in a Facebook app.

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NewsJuly 9, 2012

Irish Car Rentals Introduces Fully Inclusive Rates

The online price at Irishcarrentals.com now reflects the total cost of the rental, including local fees.

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NewsJuly 6, 2012

<i>Global Snapshot:</i> Australian Car Rental Company Boosts Marketing through Sixt Partnership and Two Loyalty Programs

In this web-exclusive Q&A with Dan Mekler, managing director of Redspot Car Rentals of Australia, he discusses the company’s new marketing and trademark partnership with Germany’s Sixt and how Redspot’s ‘Business Club’ loyalty product has been its largest growing program in the company since the club was started in 2005.

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NewsJune 26, 2012

<i>Global Snapshot:</i> In Heart of Kenya, Car Rental Company Looks to Business Travelers as Local Car Ownership Increases

In this web-exclusive Q&A with Mary Njema of Active Car Hire in Nairobi, Kenya, she explains how local rental demand has decreased as more Nairobi residents can afford car ownership. But through tourism and rentals by researchers, non-governmental organizations and the like, Active Car Hire has steadily increased to a fleet of 50 cars since starting in 2006.

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NewsJune 12, 2012

<i>Global Snapshot:</i> How a Curacao Car Rental Company Strives to Be ‘One of the Biggest’

Edgar Ricardo, managing director of Boric Car Rental in Curacao, explains in this web-exclusive Q&A how he started his car rental company by purchasing three vehicles off auction in Miami, and then added vehicles from local dealers one-by-one since starting the company in 2002.

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NewsJune 4, 2012

Hertz Measures Influence of Social Media Usage on Rental Purchases

The ‘Hertz Path to Purchase Study’ assessed the online behavior of customers when making a purchase, and found that users who were involved in social conversations about the brand, its competitors, car rental and/or travel at the beginning of the purchase process were twice as likely to visit the Hertz website, among other behaviors.

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