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25th September, 2009. London.
CarTrawler, the world’s largest provider of car rental distribution technology to the airline industry, was voted as the winner of the prestigious “Budgie Award” for Innovation in a ceremony at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre this week (23rd September).
The Awards, which run alongside the World Low Cost Airlines Congress, showcase excellence in the global low cost airline industry. A Budgie Award is recognition of the low cost airline industry’s achievements and contributions to the forward development of the industry.
In a gala ceremony, and cheered on by Herb Kelleher, co-founder SouthWest Airlines, and Andrew Harrison, CEO Easyjet, winners across the low cost aviation industry were awarded their gongs. The finalists were selected by a distinguished panel of judges, including: John Hanlon, Secretary General of the European Low Fare Association; John Strickland, CEO of JLS Consulting; Jay Sorenson, CEO, IdeaWorks and Peter Harbison, Executive Director, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation.Greg Turley, CEO of CarTrawler, adds: “The top low cost airlines in Europe agree that having more than one car rental supplier in their offering is key to maximizing their sales of this vital ancillary product. We at CarTrawler have partnered with all the top car hire companies in the world to make this perfect fit of online retailer and supplier happen. The shift from a single to a multi-supplier offering has already driven dramatic improvements for our partner airlines, and we continue to build on that within Europe and further afield in North America and Australasia.”
For further information, contact: Sophy Norris, Flagship Consulting, 020 7 886 8440, sophy.norris@flagshipconsulting.co.uk
Editor’s Notes:
Background:
In three years CarTrawler has signed a total airline passenger audience of over 120 million passengers annually, making it the largest provider of car rental booking solutions in the world. It is an award winning next generation global car rental distribution system, which gives Airlines, Hotel and Online Travel Agents (OTA’s) access to an exceptional source of ancillary revenue. It naturally pairs flight itineraries with car rental, giving partners real-time access to pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car hire suppliers, at 17,000 locations – every major and regional airport and city location worldwide - in 134 countries. All of this from within their existing sites, allowing them to pursue a multiple supplier strategy. CarTrawler built its technology platform from the ground-up, creating a number of car rental distribution firsts, and ensuring a total end-to-end solution. Its Multi-Lingual Direct Connect technology provides a guaranteed sub-second response time on all car rental requests. It is designed to accommodate preferred car hire supplier ranking, delivering availability and pricing in either an opaque or transparent selling model. CarTrawler can also handle the airline’s own contracted rates with the car rental companies; its own, pre-negotiated national rates; or a combination of the two. It is up to CarTrawler’s partners to chose the system which works best for them, and CarTrawler’s flexible technology allows for a range of solutions
CarTrawler Highlights 2008
| January |
Launch in South Africa with ClubTravel |
| February |
- Winner of inaugural Innovation Award at London’s Travel Technology
- Show CSR Programme Launched
- Strategic Alliance announced with Datalex |
| March |
Strategic Alliance announced with ARC, enabling CarTrawler to reach X US travel agents |
| April |
Agreement signed with MyAir.com, Italy |
| May |
First Bi-annual car rental trends Index launched with new research |
| June |
Agreement signed with ClickAir, Spain |
| August |
Agreements signed with Norwegian Air Shuttle, Norway Fly and Nordic Sweden.” |
| September |
Agreements pending with three further airlines in Europe and North America |
| October/Novembe |
New desk top product aimed at travel agents scheduled for launch |
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Click Takes The Driving Seat With New Car Rental System
Dublin, Ireland, September 2008
Travel management innovator Click Travel is firmly in the fast lane after announcing a partnership with global car rental distribution company, Car Trawler; adding the finishing touches to its extensive online travel booking facility.
The introduction of a new car rental system is the latest addition to Click’s TMC service and provides its customers with direct access to the best car hire rates from over 450 car rental firms, in 1334 countries.
Commenting on the new system, Click Travel managing director Simon McLean said: “We’re really excited about the launch of this new service that completes our line up of online travel services, which also includes hotels, air and rail.
“The flawless system will allow our customers to pre-book car travel in countries across the globe at the touch of a button and is a really exciting development for Click. Furthermore, our customers will be able to view high resolution images of the available cars, prepay for their rental account and use the pioneering search facility to ensure they receive the most efficient service possible.
“We’ve also incorporated our comprehensive travel policy compliance and cost coding solution which will offer both added financial and efficiency benefits.”
Robin White, Car Trawler senior sales manager, added: “We are delighted to be working with Click at this exciting time. Both of our companies are dedicated to being at the forefront of new technology and providing customers with the highest level quality of service.
“We are delighted to offer Click Travel customers the benefits afforded by our multi supplier global car rental distribution system and look forward to a long and prosperous relationship”.
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CarTrawler™ signs low-cost carrier Norwegian.com
Dublin, Ireland, March 2008
CarTrawler has today signed a multi year agreement with Norwegian low cost carrier Norwegian.com to exclusively provide car rental content across all its sales channels.
Norwegian.com , one of Europe's largest low cost carriers which operates 162 routes to 87 destinations from hubs in Norway, Sweden and Poland, will use the CarTrawler distribution system and its Koios revenue management tools to seamlessly offer car rental from all the top European car hire brands in an unbiased display and within the air booking process on the carrier’s award winning website.
Commenting on the deal, Lars Sande, Sales Director of Norwegian.com stated: "In CarTrawler, we have found a company that understands the airline ancillary revenue model as well as having an inside track on the car hire business. Their ability to integrate car rental content from a long list of top quality car hire companies - seamlessly - into all our passenger touch points will deliver a significant boost to our non air revenue".
Bobby Healy, CTO CarTrawler, concludes: "Our experience, and that of our many airline partners, is that choice as well as effective implementation yields better revenue per passenger than any single supplier solution in the industry today. Norwegian.com is a major European airline, and with eight million passengers predicted for 2008, we expect to see car rental add real uplift to bottom line revenues."
In three years CarTrawler has signed a total airline passenger audience of over 120 million passengers annually, making it the largest provider of car rental booking solutions in the world.
For further information contact:
Sophy Norris/Laura Pykett, Flagship Consulting.
Lars Sande, Director of Sales in Norwegian.com
About CarTrawler™:
CarTrawler™ is an award winning next generation global car rental distribution system, which gives Airlines, Hotel and Online Travel Agents (OTA’s) access to an exceptional source of ancillary revenue. It naturally pairs flight itineraries with car rental, giving partners real-time access to pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car hire suppliers, at 17,000 locations – every major and regional airport and city location worldwide - in 134 countries. All of this from within their existing sites, allowing them to pursue a multiple supplier strategy. .
CarTrawler built its technology platform from the ground-up, creating a number of car rental distribution firsts, and ensuring a total end-to-end solution. Its Multi-Lingual Direct Connect technology provides a guaranteed sub-second response time on all car rental requests. It is designed to accommodate preferred car hire supplier ranking, delivering availability and pricing in either an opaque or transparent selling model. CarTrawler can also handle the airline’s own contracted rates with the car rental companies; its own, pre-negotiated national rates; or a combination of the two. It is up to CarTrawler’s partners to chose the system which works best for them, and CarTrawler’s flexible technology allows for a range of solutions.
Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA– branded Norwegian.com - is a low-fare, point-to-point airline, registered on the Oslo Stock Exchange was established 1 September 2002. Norwegian started with four aircraft – Boeing 737-300 and four domestic routes. Today the company has seven bases in Europe – Oslo/Gardermoen, Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger, Oslo/Rygge, Stockholm and Warsaw and offers 150 routes to over 80 destinations mainly in Europe, but also to Middle East and North Africa. The company has approx. 1,400 people. Norwegian will receive 53 Boeing 737-800 from 2008-2014. Today the fleet consist of 27 Boeing 737-300, six Boeing 733-800 and eight MD80. The company’s headquarters are located at Fornebu, outside Oslo, Norway.
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CarTrawler and clickair in Major Ancillary Revenue Initiative
In a further move to consolidate its position as the worlds leading provider of car rental ancillary revenue streams for airlines, CarTrawler has announced an exclusive multi-year deal with Spanish low cost operator clickair.
With budgeted passenger figures of over 7M in 2008, clickair are one of the largest and the fastest growing low cost carrier in Europe.
The new system which was launched today on clickair.com features car rental offers from major car hire companies in an unbiased display, allowing consumers to choose from all the major car hire brands, and is integrated seamlessly in the air booking path on clickair.com.
Commenting on the launch, Jaime Lloret, VP Marketing of clickair said "Ancillary revenue is a core part of our growth strategy, and car rental forms a significant portion of that. Offering our passengers the best possible instrument to facilitate choice was our central goal in selecting CarTrawler as our partner".
"Offering value to the consumer is key to achieving the maximum possible conversion when selling car rental. clickair have truly set the new standard for car rental ancillary selling and we look forward to a long and prosperous relationship with them." added Robin White, VP Business Development CarTrawler.
About clickair:
With headquarters in Barcelona, clickair started operations in October 2006 and is today Spain’s leading low fares airline. It currently operates a 24-strong fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft serving more than 60 domestic and international routes to the British Isles, Continental Europe and North Africa from bases in Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Vigo, La Corunna and Bilbao. The airline is backed by five major Spanish companies, each with a 20% share of the equity. These are Iberia airlines; Nefinsa (parent of Spanish regional carrier Air Nostrum); Spanish construction and infrastructures group ACS, through its Cobra affiliate; hotel and resort company Iberostar and Quercus Equity, the investment arm of of the Agrolimen food and services group.
About CarTrawler:
CarTrawler™ is an award winning next generation global car rental distribution system, which gives Airlines, Hotel and Online Travel Agents (OTA's) access to an exceptional source of ancillary revenue. It naturally pairs flight itineraries with car rental, giving partners real-time access to pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car hire suppliers, at 17,000 locations – every major and regional airport and city location worldwide - in 134 countries.
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CarTrawler goes live with low-cost Italian Carrier Myair.com
World leading car rental distribution company, CarTrawler has signed a deal with a leading low-cost carrier. Myair.com has gone live with CarTrawler, adding to CarTrawler's rapidly growing portfolio of airline (over 95) and online travel agency (more than 1,500) customers around the world.
CarTrawler's content has been integrated into all myair.com's key consumer touch points (from a stand-alone booking engine, to dynamic cross selling options during the booking flow, to promotional email marketing opportunities) enabling the pan-European carrier to sell real-time inventory and pricing from major car rental suppliers (independent and branded) in each of the 30 Italian and European destinations it serves (as well as the potential to access 450 suppliers in over 134 countries worldwide).
Through its strategic agreements with airlines such as LOT Polish Airlines, VLM, Blue1 and its most recent announcement with SITA, CarTrawler now provides incremental revenue opportunities to almost 100 airlines internationally. With data showing 4-5% of flight bookings resulting in a car rental booking when upsold, CarTrawler is becoming an important choice for airlines seeking to maximize ancillary revenue.
Commenting on the agreement, Bobby Healy CTO of CarTrawler said "we are delighted to add myair.com to our growing portfolio, and to enable them to offer dynamically cross sell car rental to their customers. This marks a very important milestone for both myair and CarTrawler."
Lorenzo Lorenti, Commercial Director of Myair adds: "We will be able to offer our customers the best choice and brands on the market and benefit our bottom line at the same time, and are particularly pleased to achieve the maximum potential conversion through CarTrawler's dynamic channel management technology."
About Myair.com:
Established in 2004, Myair.com started operating with three Airbus A320-200s. Extensive experience in commercial aviation, high degree of professionalism and motivation are the main values and skills Myair.com management team. Today the airline‘s fleet consists of seven A320-200s and four Bombardier CRJ-900 (with 15 more on order). MyAir operates scheduled flights that link Milan, Bologne, Venice, Bari, Bucharest, Catania, Palermo, Rome, Paris and Sofia with over 30 European destinations and also with Casablanca and Marrakech.
About CarTrawler:
CarTrawler™ is an award winning next generation global car rental distribution system, which gives Airlines, Hotel and Online Travel Agents (OTA's) access to an exceptional source of ancillary revenue. It naturally pairs flight itineraries with car rental, giving partners real-time access to pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car hire suppliers, at 17,000 locations – every major and regional airport and city location worldwide - in 134 countries. All of this from within their existing sites, allowing them to pursue a multiple supplier strategy.
CarTrawler built its technology platform from the ground-up, creating a number of car rental distribution firsts, and ensuring a total end-to-end solution. Its Multi-Lingual Direct Connect technology provides a guaranteed sub-second response time on all car rental requests. It is designed to accommodate preferred car hire supplier ranking, delivering availability and pricing in either an opaque or transparent selling model. CarTrawler can also handle the airline's own contracted rates with the car rental companies; its own, pre-negotiated national rates; or a combination of the two. It is up to CarTrawler's partners to chose the system which works best for them, and CarTrawler's flexible technology allows for a range of solutions.
By integrating CarTrawler's unique technology into airline, hotel & OTA's booking engines, CarTrawler facilitates the dynamic cross-selling of car rental - a high yield, uncomplicated product - by maximising conversion rates and revenue at all individual customer touch-points.
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CarTrawler™ extends reach into North America
Washington VA, 19 March 2008
In a move that will instantly allow nearly 20,000 US travel agents to earn more commission on car rental, Dublin based CarTrawler, and the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) have agreed to deliver the CarTrawler platform to Travel Agency locations and Corporate Travel Departments across North America.
Opening up a major low cost distribution channel for all North American car rental suppliers, the system will be available to all ARC-accredited travel agents, Corporate Travel Departments (CTD), and Verified Travel Consultants (VTC). The deal will allow easy access to commissionable car rental products from the top rent-a-car suppliers in North America. It also gives unbiased access to all car rental suppliers without the use of a GDS and through the latest Web 2.0 technology. In addition, the entire global coverage of CarTrawler will be made available for international bookings covering 450 suppliers in 134 countries around the world.
Commenting on the partnership, Greg Turley CEO CarTrawler said ARC is the backbone of the North American travel industry, and by working together with CarTrawler and the best auto rental brands in the world, ARC is really providing an excellent incremental revenue source for its travel agency base. This is a ringing endorsement for the CarTrawler distribution strategy, and we're very proud of this milestone in our growth.
ARC has been consistently adding value for our travel agency customer base, and we believe that in CarTrawler we have found a partner that is going to make a great addition to the range of services and products currently available through ARC MarketPlace. Car rental is an extremely important source of revenue for travel agencies, and travel agencies are an extremely important distribution channel for car rental companies. In ARC marketplace, we have put the two together to generate a brand new selling platform that's going to benefit everyone,Said Lauri Reshus, ARC General Manager, Industry Products & Services.
About CarTrawler™:
CarTrawler™ is a next generation global car rental distribution system, now serving over 95 international airlines and over 1,500 online partners, enabling its customers to access pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car hire suppliers in 134 Countries globally in real-time, from within their existing sites. By integrating CarTrawler technology into booking engines CarTrawler facilitates the dynamic cross-selling of car rental a high yield, uncomplicated product - into Airline, Hotel, Online Travel Agents (OTA's), National Tourism Organisation & Travel Agency Call Centres across all customer touch-points.
About ARC:
ARC is the premier provider of financial settlement solutions and data and analytical services for the travel industry. Airlines, travel agencies, corporate travel departments, railroads, and other travel suppliers process $80 billion annually through ARC's world-class settlement system, making it the financial backbone of travel distribution. ARC COMPASS®, the leading, trusted source for travel transaction information, powers data and analytical tools that help ARC customers make confident business decisions. ARC is an airline-owned company that builds on values of integrity, teamwork, innovation, cost-effectiveness, and excellence. For more information, please visit http://www.arccorp.com.
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| Gregory Turley Co-Founder, Micheál Martin, Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment at the announcing of the CarTrawler and Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) deal in Silicon Valley Palo Alto, California |
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Industry Leaders Join Forces to Boost Airline Ancillary Revenue
Dublin, 20 February 2008
Datalex and CarTrawler™ have today entered into a strategic agreement which will combine the power and flexibility of the Datalex Travel Distribution Platform (TDP), with the multi-source procurement capability of CarTrawler's Car Rental Distribution system
The core addition to the Datalex flagship product is immediately available to all users of TDP - and allows its customers to instantly access any number of CarTrawler's 450 car hire companies, across 134 countries and 17,000 car rental locations in realtime, with a single uniform and unbiased view.
Commenting on the agreement, Ornagh Hoban, Datalex VP Marketing & Strategy noted "Incorporating the CarTrawler procurement capability will enable rich, normalized and real time content procurement from multiple car rental sources which aligned with the reservations and distribution capability of TDP provides significant value-add to our customers."
Mike Mc Gearty, COO for CarTrawler™ stated "the ultimate product of this exciting partnership is an increase in car rental revenue for Datalex customers. It's also worth noting that as CarTrawler is a neutral distribution system, we have enabled a new level of commercial flexibility between those same customers and the car hire companies they choose to partner with. We really see this as a win for airlines and car hire companies alike, and are delighted to be aligned with a forward thinking company like Datalex."
About Datalex:
Datalex is a leading provider of travel distribution software and solutions that enable global travel industry suppliers and distributors deliver increased content and choice to their customers across multiple sales channels, while enabling record reductions in distribution costs. Its customers include major airlines and travel distribution organizations such as Aer Lingus, Flight Centre, Philippine Airlines, SAS, Saudi Arabian Airlines, South African Airways, STA, Travel, United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic.
Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the company maintains offices in Europe, Singapore, Australia and USA. Datalex is a publicly held company traded on the Irish Stock Exchange (symbol: DLE, and also OTC: DLEXY). For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.datalex.com.
About CarTrawler™:
CarTrawler™ is a global car rental distribution system, now serving over 95 international airlines and over 1,500 online partners, enabling its customers to access pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car hire suppliers in 134 Countries globally in real-time, from within their existing sites. By integrating CarTrawler technology into booking engines CarTrawler facilitates the dynamic cross-selling of car rental a high yield, uncomplicated product - into Airline, Hotel, Online Travel Agents (OTA's), National Tourism Organisation & Travel Agency Call Centers across all customer touch-points. |
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CarTrawler™ pledges to plant enough trees to fill Giants Stadium
11th February 2008
CarTrawler™ the leading car rental technology and distribution company, has today launched a new Environmental Initiative and its CSR Policy. The launch of the ‘WORLDWIDE 100' scheme, where a tree is planted for every 100 car rental reservations made through the CarTrawler reservation system, has enabled the company to pledge to plant enough oak trees throughout 2008 to fill an area the size of Giants Stadium
‘WORDLWIDE 100' has been launched in conjunction with The Curlew Trust, a charity enabling biodiversity through the planting of 18,000 hardwood trees and the reintroduction of The Golden Eagle, Red Kite and White-Tailed Eagle into all extinct areas, which CarTrawler will be supporting though annual donations to the charity
The company has also appointed Audrey Myles as its Environmental Officer charged with ensuring that the four "Rs" - Reduce, Reuse, Repair and Recycle - are upheld and that new Green initiatives are at the forefront of CarTrawler's agenda.
"CarTrawler has long been involved with a number of environmental charities and organisations, and supports the reduction of CO2 emissions through conservation projects, so a formal CSR policy is a natural step for us" comments Audrey Myles. "We are therefore delighted to launch it with the announcement of our partnership with The Curlew Trust.
"It has always been our opinion that travel companies need to consider their carbon footprint keenly, actively seeking ways to work in harmony with the environment. As a company involved in travel distribution car rental this is even more relevant to us and we are keen to have a proactive environmental position."
About CarTrawler™:
CarTrawler™ is a next generation global car rental distribution system, enabling partners to access pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car rental suppliers globally in real-time, from within their existing sites. By integrating CarTrawler technology into booking engines it facilitates the dynamic cross-selling of car rental on airline websites - a high yield, uncomplicated product |
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CarTrawler™ Sponsors Guinness Store House Travel Event
CarTrawler is co-hosting the evening reception for the Eye for Travel Ancillary Revenue in Travel event in the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin on the evening of Wednesday 20 February 2008.
The evening reception will round-off the events of the Eye for Travel Ancillary Revenue in Travel event which is due to take place at Clontarf Castle, Dublin on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st February 2008. CarTrawler will be running a workshop at the event on merchandising the direct channel alongside fellow sponsor, Datalex.
CarTrawler and Datalex enable industry 'first-movers' to drive new ancillary business models. During their joint workshop they will demonstrate how best to merchandise the direct channel, integrate ancillary products and services into the booking path and ensure relevance of these offerings to the online consumer.
For more information regarding joining us for this event please contact us.
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CarTrawler™ scoops Innovation Award
CarTrawler™ is delighted to have been awarded the inaugural ‘Innovation Award' at the Travel Technology Show 2008 hosted at Earls Court, London. The car rental distribution company scooped the award, voted for by show attendees, which recognises innovation, ingenuity and true leadership in the travel technology industry.
"We are absolutely delighted to win this award as innovation is and will continue to be fundamental to the success of our product." said CEO Greg Turley on learning of the win. "We faced some stiff competition, but in the end we are pleased that show attendees recognised our product as groundbreaking, flexible and a source of revenue generation for the travel industry." CarTrawler is a next generation global car rental distribution system, enabling customers to access real-time pricing, availability and bookings from 450 car hire suppliers in 134 countries, from within their existing sites. By integrating its technology into booking engines CarTrawler facilitates the dynamic cross-selling of car rental, a high yield, uncomplicated product into Airline, Hotel, OTAs, and National Tourism Organisations & Travel Agency Call Centres across all customer touch-points.
This award follows other awards for Cartrawler. Greg Turley was recently listed as one of the Top 50 travel "Power Players" by Travolution Magazine; and on launching Cartrawler, was nominated for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2005.
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Fiona Belton CarTrawler sales executive accepts the inaugural 'Innovation Award' at the Travel Technology Show 2008 at Earls Court, London
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car signs distribution agreement with CarTrawler™
Dublin, February 5, 2008. World leading car rental distribution system CarTrawler™ has signed a distribution agreement with North America's largest car rental firm, Enterprise Rent-A-Car. The agreement is good for Enterprise airport locations in North America.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is the latest major car rental brand to join the CarTrawler family. With the addition of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, CarTrawler now has 450 car Rental suppliers in 134 countries uploaded onto its system.
By signing the deal with CarTrawler, Enterprise Rent-A-Car will gain access to the world's premier car rental global distribution system, and the world's largest global network of online car hire providers. CarTrawler focuses on dynamic cross-selling of car rental at a number of key selling points, leading to increased ancillary revenues for third party partners and increased sales for car rental companies globally. CarTrawler guarantees global distribution of content to airlines, national tourism organizations, tour operators, lodgings, travel agent desktops, and online travel agents.
"The addition of Enterprise to our global distribution system is an important one," said Greg Turley, CEO of CarTrawler. "Not only is Enterprise a global brand as well as being North America's leading rental car company, it is a recognized ethical and socially responsible company and regularly awarded for its customer service and employment initiatives."
"In January this year Enterprise launched a customer carbon offset program in the U.S. and Canada," Turley continued. "Customers can opt into the program at participating Enterprise locations, and the company will match customer offset purchases dollar for dollar up to $1 million. As we have also recently launched our CSR and carbon offsetting plans, this is a company with which we are proud to partner."
About CarTrawler™:
CarTrawler™ is a next generation global car rental distribution system, now serving over 95 international airlines and over 1,500 online partners, enabling its customers to access pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car hire suppliers in 134 Countries globally in real-time, from within their existing sites. By integrating CarTrawler technology into booking engines CarTrawler facilitates the dynamic cross-selling of car rental a high yield, uncomplicated product - into Airline, Hotel, Online Travel Agents (OTA's), National Tourism Organisation & Travel Agency Call Centers across all customer touch-points.
About Enterprise Rent-A-Car:
Founded in 1957 by Jack Taylor, Enterprise Rent-A-Car is headquartered in St Louis and serves customers in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Germany. Enterprise is North America's largest car rental company in fleet size, number of locations and annual revenue, ranking No. 21 on the Forbes Top 500 Private Companies in America. Enterprise has ranked highest in customer satisfaction among airport rentals in eight out the past nine years, according to J.D, Power and Associates Car Satisfaction StudySM. For more information about Enterprise, visit
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CarTrawler™ signs first major travel group partner
Dublin, 21st January 2008
The Club Travel Group (www.clubtravel.co.za), South Africa's largest Independent Travel Group (and recently voted Africa's leading Travel Agency at the World Travel Awards) today signed a strategic three year partnership agreement with world leading car rental distribution company CarTrawler (www.cartrawler.com) for global car rental . The project, which is CarTrawler's first in Africa, is set to go live March 2008.
The agreement confirms CarTrawler as the major supplier of car rental to Africa's first online Travel Portal, which is soon to be launched in South Africa by The Club Group. By seamlessly integrating The Club Group's online Portal and its own system, CarTrawler will be supplying dynamic, real-time direct connection to over 450 car rental suppliers in 134 countries around the world, with multi-lingual capability (currently live in 26 languages)
In addition to providing car rental content to The Club Travel Group's online customers, the three year deal also confirms CarTrawler as a preferred partner to the Club Group's traditional business which comprises 20 Club Travel offices, 64 Non Branded IATA Travel Agencies and over 80 Independent Travel Consultants.
"This is an important partnership for us," comments Greg Turley, CEO of CarTrawler. "The Club Group is a major travel company and a critical player in Africa. This agreement puts us at the vanguard of a key growth market for travel, and will enable us to once again demonstrate the flexibility of our technology and the real revenues that can be gained by making car rental an obvious choice in the booking process."
Wally Gaynor Club's MD commented "We are extremely excited with the agreement with Car Trawler, as we view them as the world's leading car rental distribution system. We were looking to partner with the best and believe we found this with in CarTrawler"
About CarTrawler™:
CarTrawler™ is a next generation global car rental distribution system, enabling partners to access pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car rental suppliers globally in real-time, from within their existing sites. By integrating CarTrawler technology into booking engines it facilitates the dynamic cross-selling of car rental - a high yield, uncomplicated product.
About Club Travel:
Club Travel was established in July 1987 by Wally Gaynor. Wally's philosophy was to always give the client the best deal and this philosophy is still the driving force behind Club Travel today. The company has grown from a single branch to 8 fully owned Branches, 5 Corporate offices, 65 Franchises of which 10 are branded and 55 non-branded as well as 102 Independent consultants. Club Travel is currently the largest independently owned travel agency in South Africa.
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CarTrawler™ signs strategic car rental agreement with Blue1
Helsinki, 14 December 2007. CarTrawler™, the global leader in car rental technology and distribution solutions for the airline industry, today announced the signing of an exclusive agreement with Nordic carrier Blue1 to power the Regional Star Alliance member's international websites with its multi-supplier car rental solution. CarTrawler will complete integration of its solution across Blue1.com's network of sites by the end of the year.
CarTrawler's existing airline customer base already reaches in excess of 100 million passengers annually. The addition of Blue1 ensures that CarTrawler will remain the worldwide number one provider of multi-supplier car rental to airlines. After LOT Polish Airlines, Blue1 is the second Star Alliance airline to implement the CarTrawler system
Under the agreement, CarTrawler will exclusively distribute inventory from all major suppliers of car rental across Blue1's route map (covering 24 cities in 13 countries across Europe). With 450 car rental suppliers in 134 countries around the world on its system, CarTrawler will ensure that Blue1 offers comprehensive choice to their consumers with increased availability in each destination
"Through our existing airline partnerships we have now proven that using multiple car rental companies on an airline website drives a superior ancillary revenue stream over that of a single, restricted supplier offering. We are delighted that Blue1 shares our vision for this consumer friendly paradigm," comments Bobby Healy, CTO CarTrawler.
At the signing, Tuija Hyvarinen, VP Private & Leisure Sales, of Blue1 stated "As a regional member of Star Alliance, we are constantly seeking ways to improve the seamless travel experience for our passengers. Allowing our passengers to rent a car throughout our entire network, with all of the major branded car hire companies, and as part of the booking process is a logical and important extension of this service".
About Blue1:
Blue1 has been a Finnish SAS Group airline since 1998.
In a short time only, Blue1 has reached a stable market position both in Finland and internationally operating on both domestic routes within Finland and on routes to Scandinavia and the rest of Europe.
Blue1 flies directly from Helsinki to all Scandinavian hubs: Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen. Additionally, Blue1 fly to many international European destinations, including London, Paris, Zurich and Milan. From the Scandinavian hubs, there are numerous connections to Europe, USA and to the Far East. Blue1 carries passengers on 120 daily flights and will have close to 2 million passengers in 2007.
About CarTrawler™:
CarTrawler™ is a next generation global car rental distribution system, enabling partners to access pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car rental suppliers globally in real-time, from within their existing sites. By integrating CarTrawler technology into booking engines it facilitates the dynamic cross-selling of car rental on airline websites - a high yield, uncomplicated product.
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26 Language Roll-Out Tip of the Iceberg for CarTrawler Global Presence, London, 9th November 2007
CarTrawler, the global car rental distribution system for the travel industry, is flexing its international muscle with 26 languages live on its AJAX based booking engine. With the global car rental market growing (predicted to hit $48 billion by the end of 2010*) CarTrawler is the world's car rental distribution partner of choice.
CarTrawler is committed to providing the best and widest selection of car rental content available today. It offers real time access to car rental availability with seamless integration into its partners' websites (including airlines, online travel agents, tourist offices, and hotel booking sites) and increases their ancillary revenues on an uncomplicated, yet high margin product. CarTrawler estimates that booking conversions can increase by 75% when the language is localised, so it is crucial for CarTrawler to offer translated content on demand.
Currently live with 26 languages, CarTrawler will add further translations as they enter new markets. This backs up CarTrawler's status as a true global player. With over 450 car rental companies, at 12,000 locations in 134 countries around the world, the organisation has more global reach and choice than any other car rental distribution company today.
Core tourist markets such as Western Europe, North and South America and Japan are all already covered. However, the growth in car rental in Central and Eastern Europe is evident, with translations offered in Polish, Hungarian and Romanian. CarTrawler will continue to be at the cutting edge of these growth markets, providing fully integrated and translated content as new countries come into play. With Asia still in relative car rental infancy, the growth potential is huge.
"We have already proven we have the widest selection of content around the world, including such key countries as UK, France, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the US*. Our language roll-out is further proof that we provide the best solution for our partners and their customers," comments Greg Turley, CEO CarTrawler.
"We have built an architecture which supports the needs of our suppliers and our partners. Whether it is real-time direct connect availability, ability to fully customise and self-brand, provision of yield management capabilities or to offer content in a host of languages, we can rapidly and seamlessly roll out the right solution."
"We will be using the international stage of WTM to reach as many new suppliers and partners as possible, and I can think of nowhere more fitting to launch the full reach of our multilingual capability."
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CarTrawler signs key agreement with VisitBritain, London, 1st October 2007
- Tourist Board Portals critical target in CarTrawler's growth strategy-
CarTrawler has today announced a three year partnership to become the sole car rental distribution partner for national tourism agency, VisitBritain. It will offer car rental to the 20 million visitors on the 46 www.visitbritain.com websites in 26 languages around the globe and on the domestic site, www.enjoyengland.com.
This is the first such agreement CarTrawler has made with a tourist board and focuses on a new route to market for the rapidly growing technology company. CarTrawler is a global car rental distribution system, enabling partners to access pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car rental suppliers globally in real-time, from within their existing sites. By integrating CarTrawler technology into booking engines it facilitates the dynamic cross-selling of car rental - a high yield, uncomplicated product.
CarTrawler is the latest partner to offer facilities for international and British consumers to search for and book with suppliers of flights, train journeys, taxis and now car rental. It furthers VisitBritain's ambition to drive business success for the country's 85 billion visitor economy ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games.
11% or 3.6 million overseas visitors use a rental car in the UK. The partnership means that many more of them, as well as British travelers, will be able to rely on visitbritain.com and enjoyengland.com as a single source of tourist information.
CarTrawler's offering will be in a stand alone Metasearch format as well as a dynamic cross sell model alongside the other VisitBritain products. Visitors will be able to book car rental in both the "book and buy" and "travel and transport" sections of the websites.
CarTrawler's Gregory Turley, Chief Executive Officer, comments: "This deal with VisitBritain is a very exciting one for us, and highlights a new strategy in our growth - we are actively looking to work with tourist boards across the globe. VisitBritain.com is clearly an example of an excellent site; its reach is in excess of 20 million users, giving us access to a phenomenal new distribution channel, and enabling us to demonstrate the breadth and reach of or content and the capability of our technology.
"In this deal we have demonstrated how the CarTrawler platform seamlessly connects with VisitBritian's, is flexible enough to drill down to provide in-country car rental only and is simple and easy to translate into more than 25 languages. We are proud to be a chosen VisitBritain partner in the roll out of its new website,"
Colin Simonds, general manager of commercial operations for VisitBritain comments: "Millions of potential visitors rely on our websites to plan their trips to and around this country. Through partnerships such as this, we aim to provide them with the best experience possible and give them the reassurance of booking through a trusted source. The size of our network in the UK and overseas, and the sheer volume of people using our websites, means that we can forge strong partnerships to benefit the tourism industry.
"Self-drive holidays are an important holiday option for many visitors and our agreement with CarTrawler is critical in ensuring that they can choose from the most comprehensive car rental options available today."
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SITA and CarTrawler form alliance to boost airline car rental revenue in 134 countries, London, 23rd July 2007
SITA and CarTrawler™ today signed an agreement to integrate CarTrawler's car rental distribution platform within the SITA Horizon portfolio of passenger management solutions used by over 100 airlines worldwide.
The CarTrawler platform enables its partners to supply car rental in 134 countries at over 12,000 car rental locations across the world. The deal allows SITA to offer the CarTrawler solution to its airline customers, enabling them to realise significant revenue growth through ancillary car rental sales.
SITA's Horizon platform is used by over 100 airlines, flying over 110 million passengers annually, and is the world's most popular neutral, multi-host passenger reservations and management information system.
The deal demonstrates that SITA can provide value to its airline customers, well beyond the traditional passenger management function, and reinforces SITA's commitment to generating value and additional revenue for those customers. Typically over 4% of all airline passengers will rent a car if offered by the airline on the airline website.
Richard Stokes, SITA Senior Vice-President for Passenger and Travel Solutions, said, "This agreement complements SITA's E-Commerce strategy, and echoes what our customers - and the market - have been telling us: that car rental is a hugely important source of ancillary revenue for airlines.
"CarTrawler is the first offering we have seen that matches our own standards of technology and delivery. Its platform and worldwide coverage ensures that our airline customers will reap the best possible rewards, and their passengers will get access to the best car rental rates available."
CarTrawler's Gillian Costello, Director of Operations, added, "We are very much looking forward to helping all of SITA's customers realise a major portion of their ancillary sales growth through our car rental platform. We have seen a number of leading edge innovations from SITA in recent years and are proud to be involved in helping them remain a leader in the airline industry."
About SITA:
SITA is the world's leading service provider of integrated IT business solutions and communication services for the air transport industry. SITA manages complex communication solutions for its air transport, government and GDS customers over the world's most extensive communication network, complemented by consultancy in the design, deployment and integration of communication services. Its broad range of airline and airport IT applications and services includes airport operations and integrated baggage services, common use and desktop services, flight operations and air-to-ground communications and end-to-end airline distribution and fares services.
SITA has two main subsidiaries: OnAir, which is leading the race to bring in-flight mobile telephony to the market, and CHAMP Cargosystems, the world's only IT company solely dedicated to air cargo. SITA also operates two joint ventures providing services to the air transport community: Aviareto for aircraft asset management and CertiPath for secure electronic identity management. In addition, SITA sponsors .aero, the Internet top level domain reserved exclusively for aviation.
SITA covers 220 countries and territories and the head office is in Geneva, Switzerland. SITA had consolidated revenues of US$1.481 billion (€ 1.194 billion) in 2006.
Further information can be found at www.sita.aero
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VLM Airlines Appoints CarTrawler™ for strategic Car Hire distribution agreement, 15th May 2007
VLM Airlines and CarTrawler, the worlds fastest growing car rental distribution system, have signed a 3 year agreement enabling the European airline to offer a dynamically packaged and standalone car rental offering for visitors to www.flyvlm.com. Under the agreement VLM Airlines will use the CarTrawler™ distribution system to retrieve real-time inventory and pricing from major car hire suppliers in over 134 countries worldwide including all destinations serviced by VLM Airlines.
Uniquely, the CarTrawler™ technology provides the airline a real-time feed directly into the inventories of the top car rental companies - guaranteeing an unsurpassed level of availability and pricing to the users of www.flyvlm.com. The new system runs alongside the airline's existing SITA supplied E-Commerce Platform.
Commenting on the agreement, Bobby Healy CTO of CarTrawler said "because www.flyvlm.com has been built to the highest technological standards, integrating the CarTrawler OTA XML based feed for car hire has been a small task. VLM Airlines are up and running with a significant incremental source of revenue within weeks."
Mr Rony Timmermans Executive Director Finance & Commerce of VLM Airlines said "We are delighted to once more lead the pack and choose a multi-supplier car hire solution that provides our customers with the best choice and best value, incorporating all the major car hire brands into our offer. With a route map as diverse as VLM Airlines, it was essential to have a multi-supplier offering, and the ease of integration into our selling process was a key factor in choosing CarTrawler."
About VLM Airlines:
VLM Airlines started its activities in 1993 and offers on weekdays more than 100 flights to and from London City Airport, more than any other airline company. Destinations include Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Groningen, Isle of Man, Jersey, Liverpool, Luxemburg, Manchester and Rotterdam. There are also daily flights between Antwerp and Manchester, between Rotterdam and Hamburg, between Rotterdam and Manchester, and between Amsterdam and Groningen. During the summer, flights are offered from Rotterdam to the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey. VLM Airlines also organises charter flights to various European destinations.
In 2006 the company recorded its ninth consecutive year of profitability. VLM Airlines currently employs over 425 people. In 2006 the number of passengers on VLM Airlines' flights rose by 9% compared to 2005 to 682,000 passengers.
In January 2006, VLM Airlines was named Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine.
For further information and reservations please visit www.flyvlm.com
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CarTrawler launches world's first Realtime Car Rental Booking Engine, 9th April 2007
First solution to make a booking guaranteed immediately on car rental suppliers own inventory system
Representing another world first, CarTrawler™, the next generation global car rental distribution system, has today announced that it has switched on its latest 'Direct Connect' technology for all its airline, consumer and business partner web sites.
The new technology means that customers using CarTrawler's AJAX booking engine will be able to retrieve pricing, availability and also confirm bookings as close to one hour before pickup time. This marks the first time in the industry that consumers can make a booking which is guaranteed on the car rental supplier's own inventory system immediately.
"We have finally solved one of the biggest problems in the car rental industry - by completely eliminating the manual processes of confirming consumer bookings with the car rental companies," said Niall Turley, Director of CarTrawler. "We've completed the 'last mile', and the consumer will reap the rewards."
Enjoying the benefits of the new technology in a test, Mark Townsend CEO of Vizivo commented:
"Only this morning, for the first time I processed an order over the phone from a customer who was actually at the airport in Berlin and I was able to book the car for one hour henceforth and it confirmed immediately!"
The benefits of the new system are not only improved customer service and efficiency for the user, but the ability for suppliers to mould their services to the needs of their customers and drive towards the level of service required to maintain the future of the industry.
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CarTrawler release world's first multi-supplier Web 2.0 booking engine at Travel Technology Show, London, 12th February 2007
In yet another world first for the travel technology industry, CarTrawler has today (Monday 12th February) announced the release of its latest car rental distribution system for airlines, online travel agencies and white label partners at the Travel Technology Show in London.
CarTrawler's ground breaking technology includes an AJAX booking engine, enabling partners to access pricing, availability and bookings in real-time from over 450 global car rental suppliers from within their existing sites. This provides partners with instant car hire booking technology which does not require major development effort and combines sub-second response time, irrespective of the number of suppliers searched.
Partners can also adjust and manage margins dynamically based on a more detailed knowledge of the consumer such as advance booking time, class of (air ,hotel) service, residency and many other details. Automated alerts are provided to the partner enabling them to accurately predict potential pricing problems on a market by market, or campaign by campaign basis.
Commenting on this announcement, Mike McGearty, Chief Operating Officer of CarTrawler. said "CarTrawler's technology sets a new industry standard enabling partners to generate immediate revenue by providing car rental as an ancillary product and to optimise processes and margins in an unprecedented way. We have already seen the significant revenue potential that this can provide with one of our airline partners, Lot Airlines. CarTrawler's new technology has enabled Lot Airlines to shift to a dynamic packaging multi-supplier and cross sell model".
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LOT Polish Airlines Appoints CarTrawlerT for strategic Car Hire distribution
LOT Polish Airlines and CarTrawler.com™ the worlds fastest growing car rental distribution system have signed a 3 year agreement enabling the Star Alliance member airline to offer a dynamically packaged and standalone car rental offering for visitors to www.lot.com. Under the agreement LOT will use the CarTrawler™ distribution system to retrieve real-time inventory and pricing from over 450 car hire suppliers in over 134 countries worldwide including all destinations serviced by LOT.
This marks the very first time an airline has used a multi-supplier real-time feed directly into the inventories of the top car rental companies - guaranteeing an unsurpassed level of availability and quality to the users of www.lot.com. In a market plagued by supply and pricing inefficiencies, LOT will use the multi-supplier solution from CarTrawler.com™ to provide a superior level of availability and revenue management than traditional channels for car rental supply.
Commenting on this development, Greg Turley CEO & Founder of CarTrawler said "Finally an airline can provide a reliable and highly lucrative ancillary service like car rental to its customers, without being restricted by long lead-in times and poor availability, which have traditionally made car hire a poor additional service. By using CarTrawler™, we are expecting LOT to achieve very significant improvements in ancillary revenue from their web channel, whilst providing their customers with a very important addition to their service."
Mr Radoslaw Dutkowski e-Commerce Manager said "LOT is particularly pleased to be the first airline to offer this superior car hire technology to our customers. We have consistently been a market leader in the introduction of passenger-focused, value-added services. With this agreement with CarTrawler™, LOT has once again proved its commitment to offering leading-edge car hire services to our customers.”
December 11th 2006
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| Mr. Gregory Turley CEO CarTrawler, Mr. Declan O'Donovan Irish ambassador to Poland, Mr. Radoslaw Dutkowski Lot Airline
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About LOT Polish Airlines:
LOT Polish Airlines, Poland's national carrier, was founded in 1929 and is among the world's longest-established airlines. Based in Warsaw, the company employs over 3,000 people and offers direct flights to 57 destinations in 31 countries.
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CarTrawler.comT the worlds fastest growing car rental distribution system has appointed former Head of Commercial Strategy with oneworld airline Aer Lingus Mr. Maurice Coleman as its airline strategic advisor.
Mr. Coleman led the commercial repositioning of Aer Lingus as a low fare carrier with specific responsibility for the commercial and technical development of aerlingus.com.
During his period Aer Lingus online global sales increased from 2% to 71% while also achieving significant increases in their ancillary sales revenue.
CarTrawler.com's technology is the only OTA XML based, multi-supplier car rental software booking engine and middle-ware solution in the world.
Speaking about Coleman's appointment Greg Turley, CEO and Founder of CarTrawler said "We are delighted that Maurice Coleman has agreed to become the airline strategic advisor to CarTrawler.
He is highly respected in the airline business and brings a broad range of industry expertise in ancillary sales revenue, airline distribution technology and airline management, Maurice has shared his insight and strategic guidance with several successful private companies, and is a valuable and knowledgeable resource for CarTrawler" |
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CarTrawler.com, global leaders in car rental distribution technology, to double workforce in Dublin, Ireland
CarTrawler.com, the global leader in OTA XML car rental distribution & GDS bypass technology which powers www.arguscarhire.com & other leading travel portals, has today (Tuesday 5th September 2006) unveiled plans to double its workforce. Based at its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, staff will continue to support their rapidly growing international client base, providing technology which far surpasses industry standards in response and delivery time in addition to unrivalled customer service.
www.cartrawler.Com markets its unique car rental distribution technology services in 135 countries worldwide, offering in excess of 9,000 car hire locations. In the first half of 2006, CarTrawler.Com revenues increased by over 56%; performance that is attributed to strong sales of its proprietary developed web-enabled car rental distribution technology. Providing online solutions for the car rental industry since 2004, www.CarTrawler.com's unique technology, coupled with the highest customer service standards and response time in the car rental business, has quickly set the industry benchmark.
Speaking today following this expansion announcement, founder and CEO of www.cartrawler.com Greg Turley said, “it is evident from the strong global demand for our car rental distribution technology that the car hire industry is undergoing full scale change globally. This is being driven by consumer demand for low cost car hire and we are fully poised to lead this revolution with our technology.” |
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CarTrawler demonstrate Car Hire XML GDS System at the Eye for Travel show in London
Cartrawler attended the latest Eye for Travel show in London to display their new Car Rental XML OTA booking system.
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| Bobby Healy & Claire Baldella at the Eye for Travel distribution summit Europe 2006 at the Business Design Centre. |
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CarTrawler.com Launch Car Rental OTA XML System
In yet another first for the car rental industry, CarTrawler.com has launched a
fully functional OTA based reservation system for strategic partners including
airline booking sites and IT providers to the travel & transportation industry.
The new Auto Rental OTA XML engine will allow travel websites owned by airlines, travel
agencies, and other travel industry content providers access to an unrivalled
car rental inventory across every major car rental company in the world. Over
6,000 locations and 350 suppliers are included in this new reservation system,
which is built entirely on open systems (Linux and Java).
At the launch in Dublin, Bobby Healy, CTO of CarTrawler.com said “The car hire
industry is plagued by legacy technology which has been a major barrier for
companies. These traditional GDSs such as Sabre and Amadeus have failed to
provide modern technology to address the needs of the largest booking engines.
CarTrawler.com bypasses legacy GDS technology ensuring that large airlines and
travel agencies have a cost effective, technically superior means to package a
car rental product for their customers, while improving margins and providing a
better customer service.”
“The car rental industry is intensely competitive. We can now provide a
turn-key solution for any company wanting to provide the best possible rates
and availability to their clients. It’s no longer sufficient for an airline or
travel agency to provide a single car rental supplier to their customer base.
Customers will shop around to make sure they get the best price unless the
company provide access to all their options for car rental in one place – their
own website.” added Greg Turley CEO of CarTrawler.com.
For further information please contact:
Bobby Healy
Chief Technology Officer
CarTrawler.com |
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CarTrawler.com To Launch German Car Hire XML System
CarTrawler.com has detailed plans for launch of a fully functional OTA based reservation system available in German for strategic partners including airline booking sites and IT providers to the travel & transportation industry in Germany at ITB, Berlin (8th – 12th March 2006).
The new Car Hire OTA XML engine will allow travel websites owned by airlines, travel agencies, and other travel industry content providers access to an unrivalled car rental inventory across every major car rental company in the world. Over 6,000 locations and 350 suppliers are included in this new reservation system, which is built entirely on open systems (Linux and Java).
At the launch in Dublin, Bobby Healy, CTO of CarTrawler.com said “The car hire industry is plagued by legacy technology which has been a major barrier for companies. Traditional GDSs such as Sabre and Amadeus have failed to provide modern technology to address the needs of the largest booking engines. CarTrawler.com bypasses legacy GDS technology ensuring that large airlines and travel agencies have a cost effective, technically superior means to package a car rental product for their customers, while improving margins and providing a better customer service. Cost conscious consumers want fully inclusive rates as opposed to part pricing (Time & Mileage), which the old GDS pricing model used and CarTrawler.com’s new GDS supplies the end user with fully inclusive rates.”
“The car rental industry is intensely competitive. We can now provide a turn-key solution for any company wanting to provide the best possible rates and availability to their clients. It’s no longer sufficient for an airline or travel agency to provide a single car rental supplier to their customer base. Customers will shop around to make sure they get the best price unless the company provide access to all their options for car rental in one place – their own website.” added Greg Turley CEO of CarTrawler.com. |
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CarTrawler.com Launch Car Rental OTA XML GDS System..... February 06
In yet another first for the car rental industry, CarTrawler.com has launched a fully functional Car Hire OTA based reservation system for strategic partners including airline booking sites and IT providers to the travel & transportation industry.
The new Auto Rental OTA XML engine will allow travel websites owned by airlines, travel agencies, and other travel industry content providers access to an unrivalled car rental inventory across every major car rental company in the world. Over 6,000 locations and 350 suppliers are included in this new reservation system, which is built entirely on open systems (Linux and Java).
At the launch in Dublin, Bobby Healy, CTO of CarTrawler.com said “The car hire industry is plagued by legacy technology which has been a major barrier for companies. These traditional GDSs such as Sabre and Amadeus have failed to provide modern technology to address the needs of the largest booking engines. CarTrawler.com bypasses legacy GDS technology ensuring that large airlines and travel agencies have a cost effective, technically superior means to package a car rental product for their customers, while improving margins and providing a better customer service. Consumers are finished with part pricing (Time & Mileage), which the old GDS used and CarTrawler.com’s GDS supplies the end user with fully inclusive rates.”
“The car rental industry is intensely competitive. We can now provide a turn-key solution for any company wanting to provide the best possible rates and availability to their clients. It’s no longer sufficient for an airline or travel agency to provide a single car rental supplier to their customer base. Customers will shop around to make sure they get the best price unless the company provide access to all their options for car rental in one place – their own website.” added Greg Turley CEO of CarTrawler.com. |
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David Hargaden joins Board of Directors of CarTrawler.com as Chairman
CarTrawler.com, Europe’s leading car rental distribution system has appointed David Hargaden as non-executive chairman. Mr Hargaden is a Partner in BDO Simpson Xavier and Chairman of MyHome.ie which was recently sold to the Irish Times. Hargaden would be widely regarded as one of Ireland’s leading advisers to entrepreneurs and owner-managed businesses.
CarTrawler.com, sister company to ArgusCareHire.com Europe’s leading low cost car hire company is a car rental system which provides real-time interfaces to inventory and pricing for over 450 of the most franchised and independent car rental companies in the world. CarTrawler.com’s technology is the only OTA XML based, multi-supplier car rental software booking engine and middle-ware solution in the world. Cartrawler.com recently signed an exclusive agreement with Final Quadrant Solutions, one of Europe’s leading providers of travel technology solutions.
Speaking about Hargaden’s appointment Greg Turley, CEO and Founder of CarTrawler.com said “We are delighted that David Hargaden has agreed to become Chairperson of CarTrawler.com. He is highly respected in Irish business and brings a broad range of industry expertise in technology and management, David has shared his insight and strategic guidance with several successful private companies, and is a valuable and knowledgeable resource for CarTrawler.Com’s board. |
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CarTrawler.com to Recruit Strategic Partners for Market Leading Car Hire Technology at World Travel Market
CarTrawler.com, fast becoming the world’s leading provider of new entrant global car hire distribution technology is looking to recruit strategic partners to distribute its market leading car hire distribution technology at World Travel Market. CarTrawler.com provides turn-key car hire distribution technology enabling strategic partners to provide the new ancillary service of car hire, providing a major new income stream opportunity for airlines, tour operators and travel agencies.
CarTrawler.com partners have access to:
- the industry’s leading car hire reservations technology and content (system has been built by teams that developed Hotwire for airline industry)
- an underlying network infrastructure supplying car hire in over 6,000 destinations in 85 countries worldwide
- secure and reliable connectivity to customers and suppliers worldwide
- a new revenue stream enhancing a partner’s brand pro
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