It seems like every day another new travel website is being touted as being the "best" place to go when booking travel on-line. There are literally thousands of sites out there, and it's often tough to know which ones stand out when it comes to getting a good deal or making your life a little easier. Being a travel industry insider as the founder of AutoSlash.com, people often ask me what travel sites I find most useful. The question has come up enough that I decided to share my share my go-to list.

When it comes to renting a car, there are some people who'd be perfectly happy with little more than a cardboard box and four wheels if it got them where they were going, while others have specific preferences about make, model, color and the condition of the vehicle. If you fall in into the cardboard box camp, you can probably stop reading now, but if you'd like to find out how to have a choice in vehicle selection when it comes to your next rental, then read on.

Ah Florida… The land of sun, sand and theme parks is the top destination state in the country. It attracts over 80 million visitors a year, and tourism is the biggest contributor to the state economy. Orlando is also the largest airport rental market in the world, so it's no wonder then that car rental companies are all angling for a piece of this pie.

Head to the car rental counters in the major Florida airports, and you'll find all the usual suspects there—Hertz, Avis, Dollar, Thrifty, Enterprise and Alamo to name just a few. You'll also find many of the discount brands and smaller regional players both on and off airport. What you wouldn't have found until very recently though, is one of the largest car rental companies in Europe, nor the #6 ranked company in U.S. car rentals by market share.

Let's take a look at these two players and see what they bring to the table.

Each New Year, many of us resolve to lose weight, stop smoking, get organized, and a multitude of other admirable goals meant to improve our life.

Like personal resolutions, rental car companies need to get in the act, too. I constantly get complaints from customers who are mystified and angered by the rental car experience: paying for hidden fees or extras that wind up greater than the price of the car itself, or enduring their bait-and-switch-like practices.

If rental car companies are serious about improving their customers' experience, there are a number of things that they should commit themselves to. Here are seven New Year's resolutions for 2012:

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New York, NY, November 16, 2011 - AutoSlash.com surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. travelers about their upcoming holiday travel plans and uncovered the celebrities travelers most want to run in to, the technologies they can't travel without and their overall sentiments on traveling around this upcoming holiday season.

When asked about the celebrity they would most like to run into in a chance encounter during their holiday travels, the majority of those surveyed answered President Obama, beating out Oprah, the next most popular choice 2-1. In order of desirability, the list of celebrities US travelers want to run in to, include: Brad Pitt, Bill Clinton, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon and Anderson Cooper.