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Tue 03 Mar 2010Car rental shortage could affect tourism
A CRIPPLING shortage of rental cars could cost the Irish tourism industry more than a quarter of a billion euro this year, according to a new report.
The inadequacy of the rental fleet, which has contracted from about 30,000 cars in 2006 to 17,500 last year to 12,500 this year, is having a negative impact on business for airlines, hotels and tour operators, and could result in serial cancellations.
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