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increase in business.
TRAVELERS ADVANTAGE
2006 Sales: $514 million
Employees: 408
Previous Ranking: 27
• Investments in Web site and development of new product features
as well as new branding technology
that allows for a solution to clients
interested in branded and custom
travel, dining and entertainment
services for their customers.
• Launched Travelers Advantage in
Spanish.
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ALTOUR INTERNATIONAL
2006 Sales: $490 million
Employees: 407
Previous Ranking: 24
TOP 10
CAR RENTAL COMPANIES BY FLEET SIZE, 2006
Company Vehicles
1270 Avenue of the Americas, 15th
Floor
New York, NY 10020
T (212) 897-5000
F (212) 897-5134
www.altour.com
Company Facts
• Owns Altour Service (a car service
in New York), Altour Classic Cruise
and Travel (specializing in tour and
cruises), Altour Travel Master (a
consolidator) and Altour Air (an air
charter broker).
• Member of Signature, Advantage/
Focus4Fares, THOR and ABC hotel
program.
• Privately held.
Locations
Revenue
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Hertz
Vanguard Car Rental USA
Avis Rent A Car
Budget Rent A Car
Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group
Advantage Rent-A-Car
630,000
290,000
208,400
190,775
134,225
85,000
17,000
6,019
2,875
623
1,199
842
575
100
$7B
$4B
$2.1B
$2.8B
$1.4B
$1.5B
$155M
Executives
PRESIDENT: Alexandre Chemla
EXECU TIVE VP: Barry Noskeau
EXECUTIVE VP/GENERAL
COUNSEL: Rosemarie Christofolo
Looking Ahead
• Goal is to expand leisure business with the hiring of a director of
leisure operations. Will include the
implementation of CRM desktop
software and proactive target marketing. Will launch AltourFrance
.com and AltourFamily.com. Will
expand consumer travel show program.
U-Save Auto Rental of America
Ace Rent A Car
Rent-A-Wreck of America
11,500
11,500
6,700
375
85
298
$98M
$105M
$44M
Source: Auto Rental News
2006 Developments
• ARC sales of $289 million.
• 74% of sales from business, 22%
from leisure, 4% from groups and
meetings. 21
• Brought in 25 new corporate clients and 50 new outside sales professionals in Las Vegas and elsewhere.
• Opened a groups department.
• Started an after-hour emergency
service, Altour24, staffed with company employees.
• Extended hours of international 1724 W. Schuylkill Road
rate desk in London. Douglasville, PA 19518
• Expanded hotel commission col- T (610) 327-9000
lection team in Arizona. F (610) 327-8222
• Launched agent and client news- www.worldtravelinc.com
letter to share information. Offered
easily personalized leisure Web sites Executives
for individual and agency use. PRESIDENT: James Wells
• Software development group cre- SENIOR VP, OPERATIONS: Liz
ated frontline agent desktop inter- Mandarino
face that provides real-time access to VP, CLIENT SERVICES: Barbara
a comprehensive reporting package. Troutman
• Altour Classic Cruise & Travel’s
online sales grew to $2.5 million. 2006 Developments
• Altour Paris grew by more than • ARC sales of $330 million.
20% in 2006, with emphasis on • 80% of sales from business, 15%
groups, seminars, incentives. meetings/groups/incentives, 5% lei-
• Acquired Eden Travel in the U.K. sure.
• Added Toyota Prius hybrid ve- • 15% of bookings Web-based.
hicles to Altour Service. Opened a new facility for train-
••
Altour Air moved into new offic- ing, sales, service, administration
es, hired additional staff, added an and reservations.
instant-quote feature and had 33% • Implemented the Business Objects Enterprise reporting system,
which enables customizable, dashboard views.
• Implemented Cvent group meeting software.
• Established internal, redundant
computer facility in new office for
complete system backup.
• Web site redesigned.
• Automation of profiles.
• Enhanced call center reporting.
•Added management positions
to support growth, including vice
president of client services, director
of reservations center operations,
senior director of strategic planning, director of business development, manager of data warehousing
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WORLD TRAVEL INC.
2006 Sales: $476 million
Employees: 347
Previous Ranking: 23
801 Royal Parkway
Nashville, TN 37214
T (203) 956-1000
F (203) 416-7515
www.travelersadvantage.com, www.
affiniongroup.com
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Executives
CEO/PRESIDENT: Nathaniel Lip-
man
CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER/GEN-
ERAL MANAGER: Thomas Rusin
EXECUTIVE VP/SECRETARY:
Todd Siegel
VP/TREASURER: Albert Fino
EXECU TIVE VP, GLOBAL OPERA-
TIONS: John Kitzie
Company Facts
•Part of Affinion International
(U.K., Italy and France), an affinity
direct marketer of membership insurance and package enhancement
programs and services to consumers. The company has more than
4,500 affinity partners in industries
that include financial services, retail,
travel, telecommunications, utilities
and Internet.
Looking Ahead
• Will relaunch Web site in summer.
Several upgraded booking tools will
be added, including a cash-back
calculator where members will see
their savings as they book.
2006 Developments
•• ARC sales of $240 million.
100% of sales from leisure.
• Completed transition from being
subsidiary of Cendant.
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