The 2010 South African Solar Challenge is underway and has secured a sponsorship deal with car rental firm Avis which will be providing 21 support vehicles. The race kicked off in Pretoria and will last for 10 days. The competitors, all driving solar powered vehicles, will have to complete a 4,000 mile route finishing back [...]

The car rental industry in South Africa is facing some uncertainty over the next month as predictions over the number of foreign travellers entering the country for the World Cup are dramatically cut. Some industry experts are also saying that elevated room rates and flight prices are keeping the business traveller away.
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Car hire firm, Avis India, has announced that it is about to roll out a new booking system for its leisure and corporate clients. The new CarPro software will make it easier to book vehicles through Avis anywhere in the world. It will also allow corporate customers to keep track of car usage.
Avis India’s chief [...]

2008 winners of the best car hire website of the year at the Travolution Awards, Carrentals.co.uk, is offering travellers to the South African World Cup finals some top tips for staying safe. Simple things like checking your passport is not about to run out and that any credit cards you intend on using are valid [...]

Millions of condoms are to be shipped from the UK to South Africa in time for the 2010 World Cup. The condoms are an attempt to control infections caused by sex tourism, which is expected to be rife in the country this summer. In three months time, South Africa will host the upcoming World Cup [...]

The world’s greatest football tournament is nearly upon us and for recession battered car hire firms in South Africa that is very good news. Although there has been an improvement in figures over the Christmas holidays, car rental companies are now fixed on preparing themselves for the demand for vehicles the World Cup is expected [...]

After England trounced Croatia 5-1 in a World Cup qualifier, fans around the United Kingdom scrambled to book flights to South Africa.  Travel agents all over the United Kingdom reported huge surges in plane bookings just after the game ended, with flights to South Africa going up by a huge percentage.  Some budget airlines and [...]