Mobility

Car rental sales were decimated by COVID-19 and the lack of foreign visitors, which are its main customers and value sales are expected to more than half in 2020. The one positive was that as public transport was shut down for a couple of months ...

Car rental (destination) also recorded a steep decline in sales in Morocco in 2020, due to the nationwide lockdown. Under these restrictions, traveling between cities was prohibited without one of the limited selection of reasons for leaving the ...

Following steady current value growth across both business and leisure markets during the review period, car rental is experiencing a sharp fall in value sales in the United Arab Emirates in 2020 after the very sharp decline in business travel led to...

Overall car rental value sales are expected to be as severely affected as other sectors of the travel industry in Austria due to the national lockdown and subsequent travel restrictions following the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. Leisure car rental ...

Short-term car rental is highly reliant on inbound visitors in Taiwan, with consumer segments centred around business and leisure travellers. With many car rental businesses targeting travellers from airports or other significant transportation hubs,...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is set to lead to a sharp fall in car rental retail value sales across both business and leisure markets in 2020, reflecting the very steep decline in inbound arrivals due to Argentina’s strict travel ban ...

Car rental has been severely struck by the impact of COVID-19, and overall current value sales are not expected to recover to pre-pandemic levels until 2023. Several bankruptcies are likely, especially among Poland’s numerous small, local players. ...

The changing mobility landscape has a direct impact on consumer commuting, shopping and work patterns. Insights on the passenger car market, mass-transit, shared mobility and autonomous vehicles can help businesses examine how changing mobility ...

An 11% decline in car sales in Chile during 2019, as announced by ANAC, the National Automotive Association of Chile, combined with the closure of physical sales outlets due to the protests that affected Chile in the last quarter of 2019, saw in-car ...

The sharp decline in the number of inbound arrivals as a result of border closures and government restrictions has significantly damaged the performance of car rentals in Kenya during 2020, with this expected to continue into the forecast period. The...

Car rental suffers from the disruption to air travel and the consequent dramatic reduction in the number of inbound arrivals to Romania during the 2020 pandemic. Leading players house their offline offices within airports which limits accessibility ...

After a challenging year in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is set to lead to further strong negative value growth for car rental in 2020. Business and leisure car rental are both expected to record sharp falls in value sales reflecting the very ...

Value sales of car rentals are set to post significant double-digit declines in 2020 as a result of COVID-19-related restrictions, several of which brought movement into and within Slovakia to a halt in early 2020. For the most part, inbound ...

2020 is set to see decline deepen slightly, with sales expected to fall by 9% by volume compared to an already swift decline of 8% in 2019. Demand for in-car entertainment is suffering from long term decline as sales lose out to built-in navigation ...

Daily rentals suffered a significant impact at the beginning of the second quarter of 2020, especially in April, when the virus began to spread rapidly in Brazil and the social distancing measures imposed at state level restricted tourism activities....

Like other parts of the travel industry in Egypt, car rentals have been heavily impacted by COVID-19. The drop fall in inbound arrivals following the suspension of international flights and the border closures hit both leisure and business rentals, ...

The in-car entertainment category saw even steeper negative growth in 2020 in Morocco than in 2019. This was due to the combination of the economic impact of COVID-19 on consumer spending power, and growing competition from other consumer ...

The sharp decline in inbound arrivals will negatively impact the growth of car rental in 2020 overall. As many car rental outlets are located at airports, the majority of sales are reliant on the regular flow of inbound arrivals. International and ...

COVID-19’s disruption has intensified the declining trend for sales of in-car speakers and in-dash media players, with cars being used much less frequently during lockdown and consumers increasingly cutting back on non-essential purchases because of ...

Because of the national quarantine period in April, consumers in Vietnam were only able to leave their residences for essential purposes such as shopping and work, meaning that car usage was highly reduced. This cut demand for in-car entertainment ...