16th
July
2010
World Cup car rental short of expectations
posted in Car Rental |
Tourists visiting South Africa for the FIFA World Cup did not use car hire services as often as predicted.
Two of the country’s leading car rental operators, McCarthy and Imperial Holdings, said that expectations were not met primarily due to the significant usage of visitors of local public transport networks.
Brand Pretorius, the CEO for McCarthy, said his group had expanded its fleet by up to 15 per cent in anticipation of a rush on rentals for the World Cup. Imperial, meanwhile, had added an extra 2,000 vehicles in the lead up to the tournament. However, due to low demand and poor [...]
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