Mercury Car Rentals (Avis India) wins Category-I Tourist Transport Operator Award

Mercury Car Rentals Ltd. (Avis India), India’s leading premium car rental services provider, has been conferred the 1st Prize in Category-I for ‘Tourist Transport Operator’ for the year 2010-2011 at the prestigious National Tourism Awards ceremony held at
New Delhi. The award conferred by the Honorable President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil comes to Avis India in recognition of its commitment to excellence. This is the second time that the company is winning this prestigious honour.

Also present at the occasion were Subodh Kant Sahai, Honorable Minister for Tourism & Sultan Ahmed, Honorable Union Minister for State of Tourism.

Instituted by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, the National Tourism Awards are the most coveted awards in the travel and tourism industry in India and are presented annually, in various segments of the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. These awards are presented to State Governments/Union Territories, classified hotels, heritage hotels, approved travel agents, tour operators and tourist transport operators, individuals and other private organisations in recognition of their performance in their respective fields and also to encourage healthy competition with an aim to promote tourism.

“We are delighted to receive the prestigious National Tourism Award and are thankful to the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. This motivates us to redouble our endeavors in providing the highest international quality of service to our customers, based on continuous investment in technology, training and fleet. This enables us to provide a best-in-class services focused on reliability, safety & compliances," said Sunil Gupta, CEO, Avis India.

The selection of the awardees is made by committees constituted for the purpose and the decision of the Ministry of Tourism is final and binding.

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