CarTrawler in US expansion
Posted on: March 19th, 2008 by Martin FellowesThe Airline Reporting Corporation and CarTrawler which is headquartered in Dublin have come to an agreement to take the CarTrawler platform to more than twenty thousand Travel Agency locations and Corporate Travel Departments all over North America.
The key low-priced distribution channel will benefit car rental suppliers all over North America. The system will be open to every Airline Reporting Corporation-accredited agents, Verified Travel Consultants and Corporate Travel Departments.
The agreement will permit access at no cost to North American commissionable car hire products. It is also accessible to every car rental supplier who cannot obtain a GDS via the newest web 2.0 technology.
Also the whole worldwide coverage that CarTrawler possesses will be availed for international bookings involving four hundred and fifty suppliers spread across a hundred and thirty four countries all over the globe.
The chief executive of CarTrawler, Greg Turley was optimistic that the deal between CarTrawler which is one of the most renowned car hire brands on the planet and Airline Reporting Corporation which is the backbone of the travel industry in North America would prove to be a boon for Airline Reporting Corporation which would provide an additional source of revenue.
The director of strategic communications at Airline Reporting Corporation saw it in the same light saying that car hire firms and travel agencies had a mutually interdependent relationship. He argued that car hire companies comprised a large and critical source of revenue for travel agencies while travel agencies too on the other hand were also a critical distribution channel for car rental firms.
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