Datamonitor's Car Rental Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the car rental industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global car rental market generated total revenues of $37,668.9 million in 2005, this representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.2% for the five-year period spanning 2001-2005.

The non-airport segment was the markets most lucrative in 2005, generating total revenues of $20,987.1 million, equivalent to 55.7% of the market's overall value.

The performance of the market is forecast to follow accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 5% for the five-year period 2005-2010 expected to drive the market to a value of million $48,032 million by the end of 2010.

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Definition

The car rental market is valued as the fees obtained from the rental of cars to private individuals or corporations, for recreational, business, or accident replacement purposes, from either airport or non-airport locations. It considers only short-term rentals, of less than one year's duration, and thus excludes long-term or leasing arrangements. This profile considers only cars, and excludes commercial vehicles such as vans and trucks.

All currency conversions were carried out using constant 2005 average annual exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report, the European market is deemed to consist of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Asia-Pacific consists of Australia, China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea and Taiwan.

The Americas consists of the US, Canada, Brazil and Mexico.

The global market consists of Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.