Once again, Avis Rent-A-Car has been awarded the title of leader in the field of car hire customer loyalty. The US-based Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index found Avis the number one rental outfit for brand loyalty, marking the 11th year in a row the group has been awarded the honour. The annual survey examines [...]

For the sixth year in a row Enterprise Rent-A-Car has topped the US Car Rental Satisfaction Study published by J. D. Power and Associates. The iconic study, which is now into its 15th year, calculated nearly 13,000 evaluations from a range of leisure and business customers who booked hire cars from airport locations across the [...]

As European holidaymakers return from their travels with horror stories of exorbitant rental car costs, one firm has found the competition to be somewhat of a benefit. The effects of the global recession have been well documented amongst car firms which are heavily influenced by international air travel – Overall rental car volume declined by [...]

Each year approximately 150,000 people working in the travel industry gather to celebrate the World Travel Awards. In 2008 the awards for North America were held in Orlando Florida where Avis Rent A Car was honored for being North America’s leading car hire service. Tom Garland, Executive VP of Sales for Avis said, “This honor [...]

The Avis Budget Group announced last Monday that Budget Rent A Car and Avis Rent A Car are forming an alliance with Coby Electronics in order to begin offering their customers portable DVD players to rent at locations in Puerto Rico, Canada, and the United States. This service, named Flicks-To-Go, features the TF-DVD 7050 from [...]

In the 2nd quarter, the net income of Avis dropped by 38%, following the company warning that the car hire business has been suffering. Ronald Nelson, the Chief Executive of the car hire firm, said that the high cost of fuel and the weakening economy started affecting the volume of commercial travelers during the quarter, [...]

Avis Car Rental is offering its customers a discounted rate on car hires if they are panning on hiring a car during a holiday or break in Eastern or Central Europe. Those who have made plans to visit Poland, Hungary, Croatia, or Bulgaria, which includes other countries located in these parts of Europe as well, [...]

Thousands of drivers in the United Kingdom are in car accidents while they are traveling abroad and driving on roads they are not quite familiar with. Avis is now stepping in to issue a warning as travelers are beginning their great summer holidays. Daniel McCarthy says that travel assistance and insurance is necessary to have, [...]

Hiroyoshi Yoshikawa, the chairperson of Asco Motors, has said that the decline in the tourism industry of Fiji has definitely had an affect on the car hire business. This means that the company basically didn’t perform well last year or in the first quarter of this year. Asco is the firm that is over the [...]