New Wireless Charging System Being Used by Hertz
Posted on: February 14th, 2012 Posted by Stewart Perry
Hertz is well-known for leading the way in innovation for the car rental industry. Well, it now seems like the company is at it again. This time, they are going to try out the very first wireless charging system for electric cars in the rental industry. For right now, the company is just trialing the [...]
CityzenCar Launches Car Sharing by Text
Posted on: February 13th, 2012 Posted by Helen Young
According to reports, CityzenCar, which is a French peer-to-peer car sharing social network, has launched its SMS-based communication solution provided by Netsize. For those that do not know, Netsize is actually a unit of Gemalto, which is a leading mobile commerce provider. Pretty much, this new development offers people a new way to share cars, [...]
Battle Rages on Over European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
Posted on: February 10th, 2012 Posted by Robert Jones
It seems like the battle over the European Union carbon emissions trading scheme will not come to an end any time soon. In fact, the battle just recently heated up after Europe’s low-cost carriers accused the United States and Chinese rivals of “gunboat” diplomacy against the system. They pointed out that this is a system [...]
Zipcar Launches New Partnership with the City of Boston
Posted on: February 9th, 2012 Posted by Sharon Miller
Just recently, Zipcar has announced a brand new partnership with the City of Boston. This latest announcement was made just this week for the launching of FleetHub. For those that do not know FleetHub is a new fleet sharing program. Reports show, under this new deal, several of the city’s fleet vehicles will be fitted [...]
TUI Travel Enjoys High Bookings Due to Thomas Cook Troubles
Posted on: February 8th, 2012 Posted by Dave Bond
According to the latest reports, TUL Travel said it has “significantly outperformed” other companies in the British market in January. This is more than likely due to the hard time that its main rival, Thomas Cook, is having.
TUI Travel, which owns both First Choice and Thomson, said on Tuesday that it had seen an upturn [...]
Snow in UK Causes Travel Chaos
Posted on: February 7th, 2012 Posted by Tiffany Phillips
Recently, London woke up to a winter wonderland. Although some people enjoy seeing snow, others were not as happy. There was one sector that probably wished the snow had never come, and that is the UK travel industry. Due to this “big freeze,” the UK travel industry was hit hard with delays and cancellations.
According to [...]