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As a group, holiday autos expects to fulfill more than one million
car rentals in 2004.
Around 50% of all car rental customers are resident in
the UK.
The holiday autos website was launched on Christmas Eve,
1999. Today, over 70% of all holiday autos business is transacted online.
Holiday autos has the most-visited car rental website in
the UK, receiving more hits than Hertz, Avis and Europcar combined
The holiday autos group was bought by lastminute.com in March
2003, with 'car rental' joining the online lifestyle giant's growing portfolio
of travel products

A customer picks up a holiday autos car every 35 seconds,
that ’s 2500 every day, or 900,000 a year.
Spain is the best-selling rental destination of all-time,
with Malaga the top pick-up resort.
More men than women are taking the wheel abroad. 85% of Holiday Autos rental customers are male, just 15% female.
Around 25% of UK customers ‘fly low-cost, drive
low-cost’ booking a holiday autos hire car on the back of a low-cost
flight.
As a group, holiday autos employs over 500 people worldwide.
