Hotelbeds Group announces car rental partnership with loveholidays

• Group´s B2B car rental distribution company CARNECT offers over 500 car hire companies covering 170 countries

Palma de Mallorca,  February 15 , 2018 – Hotelbeds Group, the business-to-business provider of services to the travel industry globally, has announced that CARNECT – the business-to-business car rental distribution specialist platform that forms part of the Group – has signed a partnership with loveholidays, one of the fastest growing travel agencies in the UK.

Under the terms of the deal loveholidays will now be able to access the over 500 car providers available via CARNECT´s B2B platform for its customers’ car rental bookings. Together CARNECT´s rental partners offer cars in around 170 countries, including leading brands such as Avis, Europcar, Hertz, Alamo, and Enterprise.

Theo Demetriou, Purchasing Director at loveholidays said, “We are delighted to announce this new business relationship with CARNECT to supplement the car hire offering for our customers with over 500 car hire providers covering 170 countries.”  

Cina Bahri, Global Business Development Director of CARNECT stated, “We are very excited to be working with a top ten UK travel agency like loveholidays, whose commitment to providing its customers with the best deals is well respected – and we look forward to providing their travelers with the widest and most competitively priced range of care hire providers globally.”

This news follows the announcement in October last year that CARNECT has grown the Total Transaction Value (TTV) of its sales by over 200% during the last three years; additionally it was confirmed that CARNECT now has over 200 large online travel agencies (OTAs) and travel agencies now connected to platform.