Car Rental XML with CarTrawler: Milestone


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	CarTrawler™ can increase customer retention and conversion by dynamically cross selling car rental with airline reservations. Typically, between 2% and 5% of airline customers book car rental as part of their itinerary when dynamically packaged with the air booking.

Milestones

1996 - Launch the first English language car rental website in Europe.
1999 - Developed & launched the first car hire website to offer an online quotation and booking facility.
2000 - First European car rental company to launch a WAP phone interface.
2002 - Developed the first rent a car search engine to cater for independent locally approved car rental companies for off Airport locations.
2003 - The first to develop and offer the ability to search for all classes of cars from most suppliers with one click from its search and booking engine.
2004 - Established CarTrawler with brother Niall to specialise in the business to business reservations technology offering the international travel trade a new industry standard in the computerised travel booking and reservation (GDS) marketplace.
2005 - First to offer car rental distribution on the O2 Phone i-mode interface. #
2005 - Short listed for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.
2006 - Developed & launched the first the next generation OTA XML Distribution System.Offers a multiple supplier direct connect strategy, which ensures best pricing and availability; yield management to the travel industry.
2007 - Launch the first car rental fully functional Ajax based booking engine that can be completely integrated into partner's existing booking engine/site for dynamic cross selling and maximising ancillary revenue.
2007 - VLM Airlines Appoints CarTrawler™ for strategic Car Hire distribution agreement
2007 - SITA and CarTrawler form alliance to boost airline car rental revenue in 134 countries
2007 - CarTrawler signs key agreement with VisitBritain
2007 - 26 Language Roll-Out Tip of the Iceberg for CarTrawler Global Presence