The World Travel Awards Europcar received the "World's Leading Leisure Car Rental Company" award, at the 2007 World Travel Award Ceremony, in Carribean Islands. With more than 167,000 travel proffesionals from 160 countries participating to the vote, this election demonstrates the acknowledgement ot Europcar as a global car rental player. The World Travel Awards were established in 1993 to recognize, reward and celebrate the enormous achievements in all sectors ot the travel industry at an international level. The World Travek Awards are considered as the best endorsement by travel proffesionals and their clients all over the world. Regional leading companies, in each ot the 8 world areas, are alse awarded, following the same categories and criteria, including the quality of their services. In Europe, Europcar won the "Leading Car Hire" Award for the fifth consecutive year on 9th October 2007, in Newcastle, UK, confirming once again it N°1 position on the European market. Europcar Global Marketing Director said, "We are proud to receive this Award, voted by the travel professional world, which rewards the group's focus on exellence and its policy based on service quality and innovation. Thanks to the dynamism of our worldwide network and our profitable collaboration with our strategic partners, such as easyJet, Accor and TUI, we are able to answer our clients' mobility needs."