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Articles tagged “homeaway”

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

Exclusive: Booking.com is HomeAway’s new vacation rental competitor

These are early days, but when a major hotel provider such as Booking.com diversifies into vacation rentals, everyone should take notice.

Exclusive: Booking.com is HomeAway’s new vacation rental competitor

Online Travel

HomeAway and Tujia offer vacation rentals to Chinese traveling abroad

This is a very modest start for HomeAway, but it could turn into a very big business.

HomeAway and Tujia offer vacation rentals to Chinese traveling abroad

Hotels

HomeAway turns to tiered pricing to keep business rolling in Europe

Homeaway reports a steady rise in revenue, due in part to its technology integration of VRBO, and including its nascent Australian market into earnings for the first time.

HomeAway turns to tiered pricing to keep business rolling in Europe

Airlines

Travel companies lend a helping hand in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

Travel companies from startups to legacy airlines have stepped up during disasters to help out their customers, employees, and the destinations they rely on for their businesses to prosper.

Travel companies lend a helping hand in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

Short-Term Rentals

HomeAway and VRBO’s new rate plans mean increases for some owners, savings for others

Vacation rental owners will get added muscle with the new ability to subscribe to one plan and list consistently across 15 of HomeAway's international sites. The normalizing of rate plans, though, will mean a financial hit for some VRBO advertisers.

HomeAway and VRBO’s new rate plans mean increases for some owners, savings for others

Short-Term Rentals

HomeAway nurtures student startups to mine vacation rental features

HomeAway is making use of resources in its own backyard and furthering the ambitions of student travel-startups that could end up helping HomeAway's vacation rental business.

Hotels

How Flipkey plans to get back in the game

Flipkey will continue to try to differntiate itself through reliable user reviews and inbound traffic from TripAdvisor, but it will need to overcome its parent company's propensity to under-invest in its non-TA properties.