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The leading British-based car rental comparison site, Carrentals.co.uk has cautioned Easter holidaymakers that reservations are essential this year lest would-be drivers find themselves at the receiving end of surging hire demand as witnessed in the last few weeks of summer.
The well-known website warned that attractive money-saving deals and model availability may be limited in their offerings following initial reservations throughout the industry pointing to an unusually high demand for vehicles. This Easter appears to have become the default holiday period for many who ‘stay-cationed’ over the festive season in a bid to overcome the inflated prices of the recession-hit tourism [...]
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The multi award winning carrentals.co.uk comparison source has declared that trends seen this year across Europe are likely to continue in 2010, as reduced fleet sizes continue in times of economic downturn. Although the recession shows slow signs of a recovery, the plans implemented by the continent’s leading rental operators will not be reversed any time soon.
The summer peak period is forecasted once again to mirror the chaotic scenes witnessed in areas such as Spain, where popular holiday destinations such as Alicante, Malaga and Valencia all selling out of their fleets well in advance. Worse news is that the highly [...]
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Right now no car hire comparison site is hotter than Carrentals.co.uk, and this has been proven now that the company topped the natural search rankings for car hire search terms in September. The company was able to do this be being ranked number one for 147 of the 3,800 keywords analyzed by the leading independent search engine marketing agency, Greenlight.
The report went on to show that this car hire comparison website did not just top the domestic charts but worldwide search terms for September as well. The site was also able to report positive results for this difficult summer, showing [...]
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The multi-award winning carrentals.co.uk has once again topped the search rankings for car hire related internet queries.
Using statistics based on Google’s natural search engine carrentals.co.uk achieved a massive 54% market share for terms related to hire car in September. The month saw 1.5 million searches performed under car hire with carrentals.co.uk beating out the competition to place first among 147 leading search terms, out of a total of some 3,800 analysed keywords. The latest report into the hire car sector is by Greenlight, the leading marketing agency for independent search engine studies.
The Greenlight report further found that domestic and worldwide [...]
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Carrentals.co.uk, which is one of the leading car hire price comparison sites on the internet, has now responded to the growing demand in Australia by launching a new site. This new site, Comparecarrentals.com.au, will now give Australian travelers a chance to enjoy the same great car hire savings that other countries are already enjoying.
Carrentals.co.uk has been enjoying great success since back in 2003, when it first launched. Since then it has won many awards including Best Car Hire Website in 2008 by the Travolution Travel Industry Awards. This site will allow Australian travelers to search for great bargain car rentals [...]
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Co-op Travel has just recently signed a car hire agreement with the leading car hire comparison site Carrentals.co.uk. This brand new agreement will allow the cooptravel.co.uk website to compare car rentals on over 35 different companies through a white label service.
Now, Co-op Travel will be the first company to use the Carrentals.co.uk white label solution on their website. This will allow the site to offer a more integrated experience to its consumers by letting them compare cars, prices and companies.
Justin Joyce, who is the head of customer experiences at Co-op Travel, said: “While we had car hire on the site [...]
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Travelers who are looking for a car hire could have to deal with sell outs and price hikes due to a car hire shortage. The leading car hire comparison site, Carrentals.co.uk, says travelers that do not book their car hire early are running the risk of paying increased prices or finding no availability at all. The comparison site has already reported shortages in Alicante and Malaga for August.
The recession seems to be the major factor contributing to the car hire shortage. As a way to deal with the falling demand for 2009, car hire companies cut their stock levels. Travelers [...]
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Now that summer is here, many people in the UK are all set to hit the road. A survey that was released by Carrentals.co.uk says that one in every six people say that they would like to have an illicit romantic liaison at a service station. However, this is something that is compared to the 1 in every 20 people that already have.
The car hire comparison site Carrentals.co.uk questioned over 2,300 people in their survey. Two of the biggest problems that people saw in service stations just so happened to be prices and cleanliness.
Gareth Robinson, who is the managing director [...]
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The great car hire price comparison site, Carrentals.co.uk, is now expanding its affiliate offerings for UK businesses. This is made possible thanks to a new agreement with Trade Doubler. It is set to offer 5% commission and a leading conversion rate of 4%.
The announcement of this new affiliate deal comes just after the launch of the affiliate program itself earlier this year. This new deal is set to open the doors to more UK businesses that are looking for a new revenue stream.
Gareth Robinson, the managing director for Carrentals.co.uk, stated: “In the current market a growing number of British businesses [...]
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Carrentals.co.uk, which is a well known car hire comparison site, has just reported sales that are way ahead of their budgeted revenue target by almost 50%. The site went on to say that in the first quarter of 2009, it’s up 30% in year on year revenue.
More than £16m in car rental sales and continued growth in its share of the market has already been achieved by Carrentals.co.uk. All of this has been done in just six years; however, when the site first launched it was a car hire broker site. Then in 2007, a re-launced happened and the site [...]