Goldcar opens their first two offices in Italy

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Gabinete de Prensa

The company continues their international expansion which started last year with the opening of an office in Faro (Portugal).

Goldcar Rental's new office at Pisa airport (Italy)

Goldcar Rental, leader in the rent a car business for tourists, opens their first two offices in Italy. The company’s presence in Italy, the fifth most visited country in the world, strengthens Goldcar’s aim of securing a segment of a strategic market for the company: Tourism. Goldcar is already the leading company in the market in Spain.

The chosen destinations are the cities of Pisa and Bologna, their airports, to be precise. As of this week, travellers to those airports will find a Goldcar at the Guglielmo Marconi airport in Bologna, and a second office at the Galileo Galilei airport in Pisa a few days later.

The opening of the new facilities has allowed twenty direct jobs and at least fifty indirect jobs to be created. Goldcar has invested more than 16 million euros to that end.

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Goldcar Rental’s activity increased by 21% in 2011, consolidating their position as the leading rent a car in the Spanish tourist sector

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Gabinete de Prensa

Last year the company invested more than 100 million in their expansion and created one hundred direct jobs.

The Goldcar Rental group strengthened their position as the leading rent a car company in the Spanish tourist sectors thanks to 609,000 contracts attained in 2011. In an advance of last year’s results, the company confirmed that vehicle rentals increased 21% last year, compared to the figure attained in 2010, when 500,000 operations were concluded.

Last year the company grew 50% more than the forecast made at the beginning of the year, exceeding the most optimistic estimates. Juan Alcaraz, Goldcar’s executive vice-president, said that “these highly significant figures show right our expansion policy was when we opened new offices in Barcelona, Ibiza, Menorca, Bilbao and Faro (Portugal) in 2011. All these offices performed much better than expected”.

Goldcar’s expansion policy has led the company to invest more than 100 million euros in opening new offices last year. This growth has created more than 100 direct jobs, to which a further 250 indirect jobs must be added.

Spectacular growth in the Canary Islands

Attention should be drawn to the excellent results achieved by the Goldcar Rental offices in the Canary Islands, where the total number of contracts grew by 50% compared to 2010. This datum reflects good times for the tourist sector in the Canary Islands, which saw a considerable increase in the number of vsitors. Fernando Villar, Goldcar’s managing director, confirms that “at some of our offices in the Canary Islands, notably in Fuerteventura and Tenerife Norte, we have seen three-digit growth and even higher. The results of the offices in Tenerife Sur, Las Palmas and Lanzarote have also show excellent performance with much more impressive growth figures than we estimated at the beginning of the year”.

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New Road Assistance telephone number for Goldcar Portugal

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Gabinete de Prensa

As part of our continuing efforts to improve our customer services in Portugal, from January 1st there is a new Road Assistance telephone number: 707 50 19 90. If calling from outside Portugal you will need to add the country code: +351.

Please note that this number should only be used by our customers who rent a car from the Goldcar office in Faro, or any other office Goldcar may have in Portugal in the future.

If you rent a car in any of the Goldcar offices in Spain the Road Assistance number is still 902 10 52 76. You need to add +34 if calling from outside Spain.

There is also a new number to contact our reservations services in Portugal: 707 50 40 70. In Spain there is no change and you can still contact us calling 902 119 726 (+34 965 943 186 if calling from outside Spain).

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Goldcar Rental Closes the First Half of 2011 with 15% More Rent-a-Car Operations

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Gabinete de Prensa

Goldcar Rental Office at Alicante AirportBarcelona, and the Canary and Balearic Islands experienced the biggest increase

Goldcar Rental has submitted its balance sheet for operations in the first half of 2011. The leading rent-a-car company succeeded in attaining 260,000 vehicle hire contracts during that period. That figure is 15% higher than figure for the first half of 2010, when 227,971 operations were made. This year’s growth exceeds the company’s expectations, and is already 50% higher than the estimates made at the beginning of the financial year.

Operations on the Canary Islands, where the total number of Goldcar Rental customers nearly doubled, are particularly worthy of mention. Vehicle reservations at the new offices opened in Barcelona, Ibiza and Menorca surpassed all forecasts, making a significant contribution to the increase.
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Goldcar Rental opens a new office in Bilbao tomorrow

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Gabinete de Prensa

Goldcar Rental Group, Spain’s leading rent-a-car company, opens a new office in the city of Bilbao on Saturday, June 18th. An investment of 1.5 million euros went into setting up the new office and buying new cars. The initial fleet of 100 vehicles will soon be doubled to meet customer demand. The new office is run by a team of five car rental experts. Goldcar Rental has also created fifteen indirect jobs at their offices near the Bilbao airport.

The Bilbao office opens to meet customers’ important demand and it is the first Goldcar Rental opens in the Basque Country. Bilbao is considered one of the travel destinations most sought-after by European citizens.
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Goldcar bought 60% of the cars registered in Alicante in the first quarter of 2011

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Gabinete de Prensa


Goldcar Rental Group registered 60% of the cars bought from car dealers in Alicante province in the first quarter of 2011. In all, 24.602 vehicles were registered between 1 January and 30 April, of which 19,723 were private cars. Spain’s leading rent-a-car company bought 11,650 units, which represents 60% of the cars bought in the province.

Goldcar Rental invested 150 million euros this year to renew and expand its fleet by purchasing 11,650 new cars. This confirms Goldcar’s significant contribution to the automobile industry in a period of deep recession, and has a positive impact on Alicante’s economy. Goldcar intends to provide the tourist sector with an ultra modern fleet of vehicles with the highest standards of safety, comfort and fuel efficiency, which translates into important reductions in carbon emissions and other polluting gases into the atmosphere.

Goldcar’s new cars have been distributed to 27 offices in Spain and Portugal that the company has in all the major tourist destination cities and airports. The biggest demand for cars comes from the six new offices opened this year at the airports in Reus, El Prat in Barcelona, El Altet in Alicante, Ibiza, Menorca and Faro (Portugal).

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Goldcar goes international with the opening of a new office at the Faro airport in Portugal

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Gabinete de Prensa

Oficina de Goldcar Rental en el aeropuerto de FaroA Spanish group based in Alicante, Goldcar has gone international with the opening of a new office in the city of Faro (Portugal) to meet the high tourist demand in the Algarve region, a favourite holiday destination for thousands of Europeans.

Goldcar Rental, the leading rent-a-car company in Spain, opens its services at the international airport in Faro with a fleet of 1,200 vehicles.

The new office in Faro will handle an estimated 25,000 car rental contracts this year, which means that over 75,000 travellers will hire Goldcar Rental cars in this relevant Portuguese holiday region.
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Goldcar Rental opens two new offices in Ibiza and Menorca

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Gabinete de Prensa

The company has opened five new offices in only four months, creating 50 direct and 75 indirect jobs.

Goldcar Rental has opened new offices in two strategic tourist destination cities: Ibiza and Menorca. Opening the new offices has created 30 direct jobs and 50 indirect jobs. Goldcar has invested 17 million euros in setting up and equipping the two offices, which opened in early April.

Goldcar’s new office in Ibiza estimates more than 11,000 car rental operations, 70% of which were hired before the service was put into operation. At Goldcar Menorca, an estimated 6,000 rental contracts will be made in 2011.

Goldcar Rental now has four branches on the Balearic Islands after opening the offices in Ibiza and Menorca. The first offices that were opened are on the Paseo Marítimo sea promenade in Palma and at Palma Airport. Operations at Palma airport comes first in operations, having attained 27% of the market share with 100,000 operations in 2010.
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Goldcar confirms that the airport in Alicante will handle 10.25% more travellers over Easter than in 2010

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Gabinete de Prensa

Goldcar Rental Group announces that the influx of travellers landing at El Altet airport to spend their Easter holidays in Alicante province will increase 10.25% over the same period in 2010. An estimated 213,000 people will go through the terminal, compared to 193,206 recorded in 2010. They will arrive in phases throughout Easter Week, although arrivals will peak on Saturday, April 23rd, with 37,000 arrivals, a figure 17% higher than last year’s.

Goldcar Rental’s chairman, Juan Alcaraz, says that “this increase is an important stimulus for Alicante’s tourist sector, which has undergone a very difficult period and seems to be about to pull out of it”. Goldcar is the car rental company with the biggest market share at all the airports where it operates. The company opened two offices in Alicante this month, at the new terminal inaugurated by the Spanish Ministry of Development.
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Goldcar presents its plans for expansion at the ITB Berlin travel trade fair

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Gabinete de Prensa

Goldcar Rental Group attended ITB Berlin, the world’s leading travel trade show in which 1,100 countries took part. The Alicante based company presented their plans for expansion, which began this year with the opening of five new offices: in Barcelona, at the new terminal at El Altet airport in Alicante, on Menorca and Ibiza islands. Expansion will continue with the new office soon to be opened in Faro (Portugal).

The Alicante-based rent-a-car company had a booth at the ITB where they attended current partners and made new contacts. Goldcar’s presence at the travel show was organised by TurEspaña. The mood at the meetings held with travel agencies, tour operators and brokers was optimistic about the confirmation that Germany’s travel sector began 2011 with good prospects. Owing to Germany’s economic upturn, the bookings and resources employed in travel have increased in that country. Spain is one of German citizens’ favourite travel destinations. Mallorca and the Canary Islands, where Goldcar Rental has offices, are favourite destinations. Estimates indicate that the demand for hired cars will increase considerably with the Easter holidays.

Goldcar Rental’s delegates at the ITB Berlin, lead by sales manager Andrea Turinenburg, participated at a meeting held in Holiday Autos (Holiday Expert Lounge) with travel professionals to study the travel sector’s current situation. It was evident at the meeting that foreign travel to Spain is increasing. The meeting also studied the widespread difficulties experienced in the car rental sector due to a lack of financing and customer preferences when hiring a car. Despite the current economic situation, Goldcar Rental is opening new offices and buying a new fleet to ensure customer satisfaction.

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