10 Gateway Stories Sourced From Singapore, Beijing, Caracas and Cape Town


Skift Take

To understand what's going on in the global travel industry you have to go local with people who understand the issues and speak the lingo. Skift's readership has always been globally minded and it is increasingly global, as well, so our Gateway series is delivering on these dynamics, one original story at a time.

Washington State-based Expedia Inc. acquired Texas-headquartered HomeAway in 2015, but what difference has that made to the global vacation-rental site's operations in far-flung locales such as Singapore, where its Asia operations are centralized? With the launch last month of Skift's Gateway series, featuring stories from our correspondents embedded in various hubs around the world, developments at HomeAway Asia need no longer seem