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13 October 2009 - CompareCarRentals.com

Avis Rent A Car has just picked up the gong for best car rental firm at an awards ceremony in the United States. The World Travel Awards for the Americas gave Avis the prize for being the best car hire firm in North America at a ceremony that took place in Orlando, Florida.

Executive vice president for sales and marketing at the Avis Budget Group, Tom Gartland said that the award given by travel professionals was greatly appreciated and represented all the hard work that the company’s staff had put in to make Avis Rent A Car a cut above its competitors. He went on to praise the company’s staff for providing customers with exceptional service and said that the company’s educational programmes made sure that customers throughout the U.S. were provided with the money saving and time saving products that helped them maximize productivity.

The awards were first given out in 1993 and this year saw around 160,000 professionals vote in a celebration of excellence in service throughout the worlds travel and tourism industry.

Avis Rent A Car has recently launched a new GPS service that offers customers the ability to hear directions given in more than forty languages. The Where2 navigation system also sends users weather, traffic and news alerts.

By Trevor Lloyd

Source: CompareCarRentals.com

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