Rent a car in France

New reports have shown that hotels all over the world are still having a hard time dealing with the economic downturn. This is due to the fact that many people are simply not traveling right now. However, it seems now that no city knows this better than Moscow and Mumbai. This news came by way of Hotels.com’s Hotel Price Index.
In a list of the top 15 cities with the biggest hotel price drops, Moscow ranked at the top of this list. This was followed by Mumbai. Apparently prices in Moscow actually went down from the average rate of $452 in [...]

Reports have come in that show that a mother has given birth on a flight flown by budget carrier AirAsia. The Malaysian woman apparently gave birth to the baby just minutes before the plane landed. It has been reported that AirAsia will be giving the child that was born on the plane free flights for life. The child was born on the plane just this past Wednesday, officials revealed on Friday.
The Malaysian lady, Liew Siaw Hsia, who gave birth on the plane was just 31 years old. A spokesman for the airline, Nazatul Mokhtar, said that the flight was [...]

New reports from Dublin Airport show that airport security staff came across a man that appeared to be trying to smuggle in a Chihuahua. The staff made this discovery after passing a handbag that the man was carrying through an x ray scanner and seeing that their appeared to be a dog hidden inside.
The customs officers at the Dublin Airport said that they first believed that the dog, which was a Chihuahua, was nothing more than a stuffed toy when the outline showed up on the monitor. However, they later found out that it was indeed a live animal [...]

The latest report on online travel in Europe shows the industry set to show a slight growth for 2009. A projected figure of 0.6% growth has been announced in the soon to be released European Online Travel Overview Edition 5 from research group PhoCusWright.
The figures are in stark contrast to the overall European travel industry which is expected to see a decline of close to 10% for this year.
Online travel companies generally have lower overheads due to a smaller wage budget and therefore have managed to stay afloat in the recession far easier than traditional operators. However, even with the [...]

‘Crash for cash’ scammers are earning an average of £16,000 per accident, according to the body set up to combat this type of fraud.
Deputy Chairman, Richard Davies, of the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has estimated that fradulant ‘crash for cash’ claims amounted to about £350 million per year.
He said that ‘Crash for cash’ is becoming [...]

Business owners are turning to alternate car schemes as the recession continues to affect expenditure, with pay-as-you-go car clubs proving ever more popular.
Large corporations are frequently discarding their business fleets in the face of high fuel and maintenance costs in favour of shared arrangements.
Streetcar, a car sharing rental business that operates in seven major cities has revealed that membership has doubled in the past year with latest figures placing numbers at around 75,000. The group is aiming to reach quarter of a million members in the next three years. Streetcar was founded five years ago by partners Brett Akker and [...]