Wyndham Vacation Rentals launches new site and starts to rebrand
The new Wyndham Vacation Rentals site offers some modern, e-commerce pizazz. The rebranding to a more widely known brand makes sense, too.
Hotel News
Room 77 to remain in the cloud after Amazon outage
Travel companies should fine-tune their cloud strategies after an Amazon Web Services outage took down Room 77, Pinterest, Instagram and Netflix. Given the cost-savings and efficiencies of cloud computing, travel companies won't be abandoning such services -- nor should they -- any time soon.
Social-travel site CasaHop takes big step with $1.2M in funding
CasaHop might be called social tech rather than social travel because it is a heavy tech play in the home-exchange arena.
How Booking.com turned the other OTAs into converts
The global hotel business is wide open with room for plenty of players to succeed, but Booking.com is way ahead of the curve and the article tells why.