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5 New Travel Startups Redefining the Model for Car Rentals

Dan Peltier

Skift Take

Car rentals are also car sharing in this on-demand world and travelers love to share if it means convenience and cost-saving.

[gallery ids="160682,160679,160680,160681,160683"] Car rental companies say they haven't felt any pain from the ascent of new car rental startups or peer-to-peer car rental apps, but that argument seems unreasonable. For decades car rental companies have survived off their model of situating themselves at airport or central downtown locations where it's ideally easy to reach their customer base when they first arrive in a destination. Fast forward to 2015 and the concept of a brick and mortar car rental desk or facility, though not abandoned, isn't as tangential as it once was. Now travelers can order a rental car on-demand and have it brought to their current location, or rent out a car from someone living nearby thei

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