Category: Rental Industry
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Defining Your Contactless Rental Strategy
As on-demand and app-based rental services expand, how can car rental companies break away from the queue and traditional service at the counter? Using phone technology and app-based procedures can help create a more efficient and fluid rental process for the customer. At the recent International Car Rental Show seminar, a panel of experts shared insight…
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Enterprise Launches Annual Rewards Promotion Early
Enterprise has launched its annual Plus Your Points promotion earlier than usualy, in order to give registered Enterprise Plus members the chance to earn double points on qualifying rentals. The program is available now through Jan. 31, 2021 to customers in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, and Germany. The early…
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GO Rentals Wins Customer Satisfaction Award
GO Rentals has recently presented the Canstar Blue Customer Satisfaction Award in the car hire category for 2020. This is the company’s second win in three years, both times achieving a perfect score of five stars across every measurement rated, beating out all major brands. GO Rentals is the only independent car hire company to win the award. Canstar Blue researches compares, and rates products and services according to customer satisfaction across…
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Hertz Reports $832M Revenue for Q2 2020
Hertz Global Holdings announced a revenue of $832 million for the second quarter of 2020. It reported a net loss of $847 million and adjusted corporate EBITDA of negative $587 million. Liquidity at the end of the second quarter was $1.4 billion. “In the second quarter, like so many companies whose revenues have sharply declined due to the pandemic’s significant impact on…
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Advantage Lives to Rent Another Car
If a brand could talk, Advantage Rent a Car would have a few stories to tell after 57 years. Advantage was born in 1963 in San Antonio, to Kenneth and Helen Walker, humble, yet entrepreneurial parents, who rented cars to military families for $3.99 a day. Over the next 20 years, the company grew through…
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The 10 Best Sites For Cheap Last-Minute Online Car Rentals
Next time you’re trying to find a last-minute car rental, give the traditional companies a wide-berth. They might not have the car model you want and are likely to hike their prices to try and exploit your desperation. Instead, you’ll find better deals by using third-party car rental websites to see what’s available when you go looking online for…