Hopper Signs Property Managers Evolve and Vtrips for Vacation Rentals
Skift Take
Hopper will eventually be a force to be reckoned with in vacation rentals. There, we said it.
Hopper, which expanded into vacation rentals in January, added 24,000 homes from property manager Evolve in the app-only, online travel agency's largest direct contract. Hopper also signed a still-to-be implemented contract with another property manager, Vtrips, Skift has learned.
Evolve, which loaded the homes it manages into Hopper a couple of weeks ago, is now Hopper's largest direct contract with a vacation rental provider. The vast majority of the rest of Hopper's more than 2.2 million vacation rental units come through third parties, said Susan Ho, Hopper's head of homes, in a Skift interview last week. Hopper announced the Evolve deal Monday.
The direct contract betwe
