Car rental becomes another hot spot in the tourism market, Ctrip announced the "overseas driving" platform in cooperation with international companies

After air tickets, hotels, tourist vacations, tickets, car rental has become a major tourist market hot spot. Online tourism giant Ctrip announced recently, with the Hertz, Avis and other 8 leading international car rental companies, the online "overseas driving" platform to provide 86 countries around the world car rental services. This is the first domestic OTA to launch a one-stop overseas driving rate and booking platform, to take a similar hotel booking of the front pay mode, the price than the official website of the rental car brand also 15% lower, the daily rent of 136 yuan.

Prior to that, Ctrip has been with a hi, A.V.I., Supreme and other cooperation to launch domestic car rental services. Recently, he has invested in "easy to use cars" and shares in "a Hi car Rental". Coupled with the expansion of the car business internationalization, with the car to become the key layout of the emerging business Ctrip. At present, Ctrip has completed the International Hotel platform, the International air ticket platform, the global outbound tourism Resort network, the global ticket booking platform, the global car rental self-driving platform layout, which will build a one-stop tourism service platform for Ctrip, and further internationalization, to open up overseas markets to provide the conditions.

According to the introduction, Ctrip "overseas self-driving channel" first-round rental car brands include: Hertz, Avis, Alamo,enterprise,dollar, Thrifty and national, covering 86 countries on all continents, more than 2000 cities, Chinese tourists like the United States, Canada, France, Britain, Thailand and so on. Partners are international brands, such as Hertz (Hertz) is the world's largest car rental service provider, in the United States and the world 146 countries have more than 8,500 car rental stores, widely distributed in the airport, city center, business Center, residential and tourist attractions.

Ctrip Travel Network Vice President Zhungyuxiang said, Ctrip "outbound self-driving" platform for Chinese tourists outbound travel to provide a great convenience. First, all products are supported by the use of Chinese driving license, without prepaid rent, can be completed in the domestic booking; second, the resources directly docking International 8 well-known car brand backstage, in a page can be completed one-stop-shop, local inventory can be displayed in real time in the Ctrip page. Third, the cooperation is a well-known international car rental companies, covering tens of thousands of models, the average car age only 6 months, under the distribution of a wide range of stores, car, car rental convenience, service is guaranteed. Four is in the price also has the advantage, the price than each car rental brand official website also to be lower 15%. Also provides a special based on the actual travel situation of the Chinese design of the insurance package, and presented in Chinese GPS.

The reporter chooses "overseas to drive" on the channel of Ctrip Travel Channel, input pick-up location in San Francisco, select next year during the Spring Festival car ride, found that there are Hertz, Avis and other 7 car rental companies 10 kinds of models can be selected, the price according to the number of car days change, rent a day minimum only need 200 yuan RMB. After booking, you need to hold the order confirmation number, one of my two cards (passport, the original valid driver's license and translation of public documents, effective international credit card) to the supplier to book the store to pay for the car rental costs, the process of pick-up. The front desk payment mode also gives the user no risk.

Industry insiders believe that in China's outbound travel and free line of high-speed growth trend, overseas driving due to low threshold (support for China's driving license), low prices, booking and use convenient, this market will quickly enlarge. 2012 China outbound travel number of 83 million, outbound consumption of more than 100 billion U.S. dollars, ranked first in the world. Outbound travel is expected to be close to 100 million this year. Chinese tourists increasingly favor the free travel and self-help tours, the proportion of outbound free line of more than 70%, these tourists are increasingly inclined to free, in-depth exploration destinations, car rental from abroad to become a new market. General overseas free line of users to the majority of middle-aged and young people, belong to the middle-class, they are accustomed to booking flights through the network or even mobile phones, hotels and tourism products, and Ctrip user overlap is very high.

Zhungyuxiang said that the use of cars is a tourism, travel process can not be missing a link, with the car business is the focus of the emerging business unit, the goal is to build the industry's largest and most complete set of self-driving, business car, taxi in one of the "single-stop car platform." At the same time, Ctrip also fully through the air tickets, hotels, tickets, ground traffic docking, complete the "one-stop" service, so that users can be in an app or Web site to solve, greatly saving time, cost and energy.