Website Carrentals.co.uk announces ‘Raising the Standard’ fairer travel campaign

20 April 2010 – Award-winning car hire specialist Carrentals.co.uk has this week announced the introduction of a new programme dedicated to getting tourists the fairest travel deals and most accurate travel information around on the Internet. The new scheme is called ‘Raising the Standard’.

The Raising the Standard scheme will help consumers to get hold of information the fairest travel services and deals around. Carrentals.co.uk reports that the scheme’s mission is to help travellers avoid paying over the odds for services and also to highlight areas which can contain pitfalls such as high excess charges and how to avoid them.

Raising the Standard is a web-based initiative and can be found at the Carrentals.co.uk car hire forum. On the site consumers can get hold of a discussion forum, a blog and a wide variety of papers and information sheets to download which include subjects such as car hire, flights, accommodation, holiday health, travel insurance and other holiday extras.

On the forum users will be able to raise any issues and highlight any problems which they have experienced, with Carrentals.co.uk also saying that the site will in future be home to consultation sessions with industry experts where tourists can pose questions and queries to leading travel industry sources.

Gareth Robinson, managing director of Carrentals.co.uk, comments: "At Carrentals.co.uk we want to offer consumers far more than 'just' a great place to save money on car hire, and Raising the Standard will offer consumers a huge database of expert information and shared stories on how to get the best and fairest deals on all things travel."

Carrentals.co.uk has launched the scheme in conjunction with other leading travel suppliers such as Questor Insurance, Zintech, Fly.co.uk and Self Catering Breaks. All the partners involved can bring their own unique travel expertise to bear on the Raising the Standard programme and make it an invaluable resource for tourists.

Andrew Lawrence of Questor Insurance comments: "The Internet is probably now home to too much information about travel, much of it inaccurate and misleading to the consumer. Raising the Standard will offer travellers great information on travel insurance and the problems inherent to it plus much more besides."

Any consumer can register for the Raising the Standard forum which Carrentals.co.uk says will be regularly monitored and updated. Carrentals.co.uk is also committed to providing forum users with quick and accurate answers to questions and queries.

To register for the Raising the Standard forum or for further information about the campaign, please visit the new car rental forums.

Carrentals.co.uk compares car hire deals from up to 50 rental companies, including Alamo, Budget, easyCar, Holiday Autos and Sixt, in over 9,000 locations worldwide.

To compare the latest car hire deals visit www.carrentals.co.uk.

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About Carrentals.co.uk

Carrentals.co.uk was launched in February 2003 and grew to become one of the UK's leading online car hire companies by 2006.

In 2007 the company re-launched its site to create the first major online price comparator in the travel industry. Using the latest technology the Carrentals.co.uk site now searches up to 50 different car hire websites, providing an impartial comparison of the best prices available in over 9,000 locations.

Websites searched include Alamo, Budget, easyCar, Ebookers, Hertz, Holiday Autos, Opodo, Sixt and Thrifty, with the Carrentals.co.uk site quickly comparing prices and allowing customers to refine their search by car type.

The Carrentals.co.uk site also features over 5,000 pages of travel information in a mini-guide format.

In 2008 Carrentals.co.uk was voted Best Car Hire Website in the Travolution Awards. To book or for further information visit www.carrentals.co.uk

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