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Airbnb News

What started as AirBedandBreakfast.com has grown into a massive public company that IPOd in 2020. Airbnb is now the world’s largest online alternative-accommodation community, allowing millions of users to list, search, and rent authentic homestays and vacation-rental experiences in countless cities across the globe.

Airlines

Hipmunk CEO talks up Airbnb, Amtrak and generational shift

The travel landscape is indeed changing, but it remains to be seen whether Hipmunk will have the staying power to see it all through.

Hipmunk CEO talks up Airbnb, Amtrak and generational shift

Hotels

Airbnb doesn’t pose a big threat to hotel industry: analyst

Hotels have to respond to the user experience that players like Airbnb have enabled and innovated in digital, and even if the markets are different, consumers are learnings cues from superior UX of such players.

Hotels

HomeAway makes its third move in Asia with tie-up to Singapore’s Travelmob

HomeAway and Airbnb are both moving fast to expand in what will likely become their fastest growing market, after their base in North America, as travel and tech adoption booms throughout Asia.

Airlines

JumpSeat wants to make private flights cheaper for business travelers

The number of startups tackling this problem now may be disproportionate to the number of travelers looking to take a private jet, and those that can actually pay several thousand to share one.

JumpSeat wants to make private flights cheaper for business travelers

Hotels

Vacation rental startup Dwellable taps FlipKey for U.S. coverage in app revamp

Although bookings are quickly moving to mobile, it’s too early to tell if a clean design and a seamless UI will be the ultimate gateways to success.

Vacation rental startup Dwellable taps FlipKey for U.S. coverage in app revamp

Hotels

HomeAway CEO sees tough short-term rental laws as a “nuisance”

We'll almost inevitably see a convergence between the vacation homes of HomeAway and Flipkey, and the apartment rentals of Airbnb, and that will highlight how these companies share common interests when local legislators try to curb their activities.

Hotels

Video: HomeAway’s CEO on why Airbnb isn’t really competition

In contrast to the opaque balance sheet of its more hyped peers, HomeAway's CEO can confidently point to six strong quarters as a public company.

Online Travel

HomeAway will copy Airbnb and Booking.com for new initiatives

HomeAway is mimicking Airbnb's pay-per booking model in some ways, although HomeAway isn't getting into peer-to-peer apartment rentals in any big way just yet.

Online Travel

HomeAway organizing property owners to fight short-term rental restrictions

Short-term rentals are disruptive, and sometimes illegal. The battle to accommodate them or not is being fought out in hundreds of small battles at the local and state levels.

HomeAway organizing property owners to fight short-term rental restrictions

Hotels

Amsterdam clamps down on illegal rentals, Airbnb and peers fear chain reaction

One would think that a city that permits a thriving red light district would be less picky about illegal hotels, but Amsterdam isn’t going to sit back as many as 4,000 residents earn an extra untaxed income.

Amsterdam clamps down on illegal rentals, Airbnb and peers fear chain reaction