Europcar: Fleet, Yield, and the Road Ahead
Grammar: Language of cause and effect
A Business English English lesson exploring business.
What's in this lesson
A Business English ESL lesson on business, practising language of cause and effect. The worksheet has a reading, target vocabulary and discussion questions.
From the reading: Europcar: Fleet, Yield, and the Road Ahead
Walk into any car rental counter at Dublin Airport's Terminal 1 and the transaction looks simple: hand over a licence, tap a card, drive away. Behind that two-minute exchange, however, sits one of the most complex pricing machines in European travel. Europcar, founded in Paris in 1949 and now operating across more than 140 countries, runs a business where the difference between profit and loss can come down to a single idle day per vehicle. In Ireland, where tourism revenues topped €6.5 billion in 2023 and Dublin Airport handled over 32 million passengers, Europcar operates one of its busiest European hubs — and one of its most competitively priced.
Vocabulary
- account for
- come down to
- drive away
- track down
- 140
- bulk discounts
- incurs
- residual value
- yield management
Discussion questions
- Have you ever rented a car abroad?
- Do you think the price of a service should change depending on the day you buy it?
- What makes an airport job different from an office job?
Europcar: Fleet, Yield, and the Road Ahead
Grammar: Language of cause and effect
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