The Life And Times Of Alamo Car Rental
You would think that with a name like Alamo Car Rental that the company would have probably started in Texas, but they preferred to remember the Alamo in another part of the United States. Alamo Car Rental was founded in 1974 with nine locations all in the southern state of Florida.
Alamo Car Rental was one of the very first companies to offer an unlimited miles feature with their rental cars, but Alamo Car Rental also took all of that unlimited mileage and targeted it at the leisure rental market which was still a relatively forming market back then. It could be said that Alamo Car Rental is a pioneer in the rental car business with their attention to the leisure and family rental market, while other car rental companies were still focusing on the business traveler and the vacationing crowd as well.
After pioneering the concept of unlimited miles for car rentals Alamo Car Rental decided to then get more people out on the road and offer the vacationing public an alternative to the high cost of flying, but without putting any wear and tear on the family car. In 1982 Alamo Car Rental began building large modern locations in the main vacation destinations around Florida, like Orlando. Then, they encouraged people to take their family on vacation by renting a car rather than wearing out the family car or having to limit the luggage you take, and the extra expense involved, in flying. It worked and soon they were building new locations all over Florida.
It Is All About Leisure
You will find Alamo Car Rental at any major airport, because that is the staple location of any car rental company, but Alamo Car Rental prefers to remain ahead of the leisure and vacationing car rental curve by associating themselves with vacation destinations everyone can identify with. Alamo Car Rental recently entered into a partnership with Walt Disney World making Alamo Car Rental the official rental car of Disney World and thereby officially establishing themselves side by side with one of the largest vacation destinations in the entire world. When you base your business on vacation travel you might as well line yourself up with the biggest and the best in the world.
Alamo was also the first car rental company to offer the ability to have its customers do car rental contracts completely on the internet, and they continue to find new and exciting ways for customers to benefit from the power and availability of the internet.
