Chinese car hire service providers, China Auto Rental, is to be taken over by investment firm, Legend Holdings. The announcement was made at a recent press conference where Legend Holdings confirmed that in exchange for more than 50 per cent of the rental giant it would be pumping 1.2 billion yuan of investment in with [...]
The latest poster for iconic lingerie brand Wonderbra promises to be even more of a traffic stopper than the ‘Hello Boys’ campaign which, 16 years ago, featured Eva Herzigova. The 30-foot poster of the Czech model gazing down at her assets was allegedly the cause of numerous traffic accidents. The new poster is 20-foot wide, [...]
Increasing levels of corporate and leisure travel means that hotel room rates around the world are beginning to climb again after dropping to all-time lows during the global recession. Hotels.com, a website based in Dallas, has issued a report showing the first year-on-year gain since the end of 2007. Big names in the hotel business [...]
Aer Lingus boss Christoph Mueller has confirmed that talks are intensifying between the Irish carrier and British Airways over a possible tie-up with the Oneworld airline alliance. Mueller also said his airline was talking to KLM about the possibility of joining Skyteam and with United Airlines about joining Star alliance. Mueller said that all three [...]
Experts in car hire solutions, Avis UK, has announced that it will be opening its 15th London branch at Westfield shopping centre in West London. Avis says that it wants the new flagship store to be a gateway for those wishing to easily get out of the city. The Westfield centre is extremely well positioned [...]
British legal firm, Ashworth, has been hired by rental car supplier, Avis, to chase up its unpaid car hire debts. Most commonly, the outstanding bills are related to customers’ not paying for any damage a rental car may have received while in their care. The Harrogate based firm has worked with Avis in the past, [...]
Giving what he described as an exclusive interview at an auction he was attending recently, Jeremy Clarkson, presenter of the BBC’s popular motoring programme Top Gear, announced that The Stig has been sacked. Fighting an injunction by the BBC at the High Court recently, Ben Collins, a 33-year-old former racing driver, revealed that he was [...]
Hertz has announced a new partnership with ExpertFlyer.com which it hopes will enhance the current Hertz Business Account Programme by providing customers with more travel options. Small businesses will now have access to greater savings on membership of ExpertFlyer.com, Hertz rental vehicles and a range of services provided by other participants in the corporate programme. [...]
British Airways boss, Willie Walsh, has announced that the airline will be actively looking to merge with or take-over other airlines following the completion of a tie-up deal with Iberia. Although he hasn’t named any of the other airlines, he has said that a short-list of 12 has been drawn up. Not all of the [...]
As councils across the country struggle to find funds for their road safety programmes, the AA warns that scrapping speed cameras will put more lives at risk as motorists increase their speeds. According to research conducted by Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership, the number of drivers speeding past cameras has increased by 88 per cent [...]
