holiday autos has announced a new partnership with online travel provider www.wecanbookit.com. The car rental broker will offer www.wecanbookit.com 's UK customers value for money rentals in destinations around the world.
Visitors to the wecanbookit.com website will be able to access holiday autos rates and hire cars by clicking on the ‘car hire' link on the homepage.
holiday Autos is the world's leading leisure car rental company, offering high standards and competitive prices in 4,000 rental locations around the globe. Founded 16 years ago, holiday autos arranges hire cars for around 1 million customers annually.
Wecanbookit.com aims to match customers with suppliers in the travel and leisure markets with minimal effort required by either side and to facilitate easy bookings, offering flights, hotels, car hire and theatre tickets around the world.
Mathew Hart , holiday autos managing director said: “Our partnership with wecanbookit.com represents important new business for holiday autos. The site has tremendous market penetration and is renowned for offering a high standard of customer service, something which mirrors our own brand values. We look forward to fostering a mutually rewarding working relationship.”
Craig Anderson, managing director of wecanbookit.com said: “We are delighted to announce holiday autos as our exclusive car rental partner, who we believe are ideally placed to provide our customers with low cost car hire, ensuring they are offered truly competitive prices when they book via www.wecanbookit.com website. We look forward to working with holiday autos to offer our customers fantastic special offers whenever they travel, be it for business or leisure purposes.”
About Holiday Autos
Holiday Autos is the world's largest leisure car rental broker. Founded in 1987, the innovative company revolutionised the car rental industry by introducing fully inclusive rental prices, and, a few years later, was among the first to enmbrace e-commerce by developing the website as a key distribution channel. Today more than 40% of business is transacted on-line.
The Holiday Autos Group operates through a mix of corporate offices, joint ventures and sales agents in 40 countries worldwide. In 2002 the group turnover was £ 154million.
In March 2003 Holiday Autos was bought by lastminute.com for £ 40 million. Company founder Clive Jacobs retains the position of chief executive and has joined the board of lastminute.com as vice chairman.
About lastminute.com
lastminute.com is Europe 's leading online provider of travel and leisure solutions. Based on the idea of matching supply and demand, it offers consumers last minute opportunities to acquire airline tickets, hotel rooms, package holidays, car hire, entertainment tickets, restaurant reservations and home delivery, speciality services, gifts and auctions.
Operating across multiple markets, lastminute.com has established approximately 15,300 supplier relationships and over 7.5 million subscribers to its weekly news letter.
lastminute.com also owns and operates online brands holidayautos.com, travelprice.com, degriftour.com, travelselect.com, travel4less.co.uk and eXhilaration.co.uk and has a stake in LCC24.com, the online vehicle for Lufthansa City Center , in Germany .
More information available at www.lastminute.com/ir
