Alamo's Web Site Ranked No. 1 Among Car Rental Sites.Business & Travel Editors/Automotive & High-Tech Writers FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2000 -Alamo.com Rating Also Jumps From No. 22 to No. 6 in Larger, Overall Travel Category- Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. .com, the Web site for Alamo Rent A Car Alamo Rent A Car is a car rental agency. It is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but has branches across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, parts of Africa, Europe, and Australia as well as some locations on various Caribbean islands. , a division of ANC ANC abbr. African National Congress ANC African National Congress: South African political movement instrumental in bringing an end to apartheid ANC n abbr (= Rental Corporation (Nasdaq:ANCX), has been named the Internet's number one car rental company Web site by Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
Name Headquarters A'rosa Europe NCL America America AIDA Cruises Europe American Cruise Lines America and other car rental companies. Forrester Research, Inc., a leading independent research firm that analyzes the future of technology change and its impact on businesses, consumers, and society, recently released its annual list of the top 60 travel Web sites. More than 100 travel sites were considered and 60 were actually ranked in this year's scoring. This year's ranking marks a significant improvement for the Alamo Web site compared with its ranking of number 22 in 1999. Forrester Research ratings are objective and reflect actual consumer behavior. The scores, based on a combined total of 9,524 American and Canadian households, are calculated by considering the percentage of consumers who researched travel on the site, the percentage of consumers who actually book reservations on the site, and the estimated amount of revenue each visitor to the site spends on travel yearly. Alamo.com is the only car rental Web site that allows customers to comparison shop viewing photos of the actual car types available at their destination, passenger and luggage capacity of each car type and the prices of all available vehicles on one screen. "We are extremely proud that Alamo's Web site was rated the top car rental company site by Forrester and even happier with our number six rating in the overall travel category by Forrester Research," said Karen Beard beard, hair on the lower portion of the face. The term mustache refers to hair worn above the upper lip. Attitudes toward facial hair have varied in different cultures. , president Alamo and National in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "We want to make it easy and convenient for customers to rent a car from Alamo. Receiving this kind of recognition in the highly competitive and rapidly growing e-commerce channel is validation See validate. validation - The stage in the software life-cycle at the end of the development process where software is evaluated to ensure that it complies with the requirements. of our efforts." "The Alamo Web site is entirely customer driven," continued Beard. "Our goal was to create an easy-to-use Web site that responds to the specific on-line needs of leisure travelers, who are Alamo's primary target audience. We have a long-term commitment to continually improve the ease and functionality of all our Internet sites for all our customers," she said. Alamo has also been rated as the number one car rental Web site in terms of customer Ease-of-Use by Gomez.com's Internet Car Rental Scorecard(tm). ANC Rental Corporation, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, is one of the world's largest car rental companies with annual revenue of approximately $3.5 billion in 1999. ANC Rental Corporation, the parent company of Alamo, National, and CarTemps, is the only company in the car rental industry that operates three distinct brands. ANC Rental Corporation has more than 4,000 locations in 69 countries and employs approximately 22,000 associates worldwide. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion