Articles tagged “corporate housing”

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Blueground Partners With Mitsubishi Estate To Enter Japan

Blueground, the New York-based operator of furnished, flexible rentals for stays lasting 30 days or more, entered its first franchise agreement with real estate and hospitality company Mitsubishi Estate to introduce Blueground in Japan.  This comes under Blueground's partner network launched in summer 2023, to help the company expand beyond its current 15,000 apartments in…

Srividya Kalyanaraman | 3 months ago

Short-Term Rentals

Blueground Buys a Rival Housing Platform to Help Launch a Partner Network

Blueground's second acquisition this year is part of its strategy to build a global accommodation network, listing third-party inventory.

Srividya Kalyanaraman | 11 months ago

Blueground Buys a Rival Housing Platform to Help Launch a Partner Network

Business Travel

Global Companies Still in Mad Dash to Pull Workers From Ukraine

Relocation options are running out for businesses as Ukraine’s borders become overwhelmed by growing numbers of refugees. The impact of the war is now set to spread even further across Europe.

Matthew Parsons | 2 years ago

Global Companies Still in Mad Dash to Pull Workers From Ukraine

Short-Term Rentals

Placemakr Raises $90 Million for Next-Gen Lodging Including Hotel Pop-Ups

What performs better financially than a hotel, on average? A hybrid model of lodging that mixes short-term and long-term stays, according to Placemakr. Is the startup genius? Or is it trying to do too much?

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

Placemakr Raises $90 Million for Next-Gen Lodging Including Hotel Pop-Ups

Short-Term Rentals

Sonder Exec Claims Direct Traffic Is Not a Primary Objective

Just about every travel company — Sonder included — wants more direct bookings because of the lower costs and chance to build customer relationships. Still, Sonder may be at a growth stage where adding distribution channels can be an important hedge against over-reliance on the bigger ones.

Dennis Schaal | 2 years ago

Sonder Exec Claims Direct Traffic Is Not a Primary Objective

Business Travel

The Pandemic Changed the Serviced Apartments Industry Forever

A wave of agency closures and takeovers means those that are left need to ensure they're lean enough to compete with owner and operators.

Matthew Parsons, Skift | 3 years ago

The Pandemic Changed the Serviced Apartments Industry Forever

Online Travel

Startup Casai Buys Its Way Into Serviced Apartments in a Play for Brazilian Business Travel

The conventional wisdom in the U.S. and Europe has been that business travel will be slow to recover easing out of the pandemic and that emerging markets in Latin America, such as Brazil, will have a snail-like rebound, too. Travel startup Casai is gambling that both ideas are wrong.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

Startup Casai Buys Its Way Into Serviced Apartments in a Play for Brazilian Business Travel

Business Travel

Sonder Targets Business Travel by Partnering With Expedia’s Egencia, TripActions and Others

Sonder has been misunderstood by some. It offers both short-term rental and traditional hotel lodging, and it has mostly appealed to leisure travelers, not business people, so far. The startup's outreach to business travelers could change all that.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

Sonder Targets Business Travel by Partnering With Expedia’s Egencia, TripActions and Others

Business Travel

New Office Design Experiments for When the Remote Work Dream Fizzles

A new hospitality think tank wants commercial real estate firms to help it redesign offices, betting the remote work trend won't last.

Matthew Parsons, Skift | 3 years ago

New Office Design Experiments for When the Remote Work Dream Fizzles

Business Travel

BridgeStreet Files for Bankruptcy and Sells European Business to National Corporate Housing

It's a bitter irony that the pandemic has driven a push to remote work and created an immense opportunity for traditional providers of serviced apartments precisely at the moment that they have stumbled in their execution.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 3 years ago

BridgeStreet Files for Bankruptcy and Sells European Business to National Corporate Housing