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Articles tagged “vacation rentals”

Online Travel

Challenges in Travel Booking 2016: TripAdvisor Isn’t Afraid of Google’s New Products

This likely will be a year of building out what TripAdvisor already has in hotel Instant Booking, vacation rentals and tours and activities. One big challenge will be how to focus effectively in so many huge areas simultaneously without some getting short shrift.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Challenges in Travel Booking 2016: TripAdvisor Isn’t Afraid of Google’s New Products

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A New LeisureLink Attracts $17 Million in Venture Funding

Clearstone Venture Partners claims that funding LeisureLink is a better investment than in Airbnb or HomeAway. That may be a frivolous boast but what's clear is that a lot of people are going to make a ton of money on the business and distribution side of the vacation rental and alternative lodging industry.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

A New LeisureLink Attracts $17 Million in Venture Funding

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HomeAway Initially Oversold Its Performance To Expedia

Consider the big changes ahead for HomeAway, including making its listings online bookable, supplementing subscription fees with commission payments, introducing a booking fee for travelers and getting integrated with Expedia. When you further take into account competition from Airbnb, Booking.com, TripAdvisor and a bevy of local rivals, there is a helluva lot of risk ahead.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

HomeAway Initially Oversold Its Performance To Expedia

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Interview: Priceline CEO on Why He Didn’t Spend $4 Billion to Acquire HomeAway

Priceline Group CEO Darren Huston touts his company's organic growth versus Expedia Inc.'s strategy of mostly acquiring companies that need to be put back on track. Rest assured, however, that Priceline would plunk down a few billion dollars on the right acquisition target. It just wasn't HomeAway, and TripAdvisor and Airbnb are too expensive.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Interview: Priceline CEO on Why He Didn’t Spend $4 Billion to Acquire HomeAway

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The Inside Story Behind Expedia’s Purchase of HomeAway

Although five companies other than Expedia expressed an interest in investing in HomeAway or proposed an alternative transaction, only one, Expedia, made a full-blown acquisition proposal. That may say something about HomeAway's prospects, the very competitive marketplace in the vacation rental space and the broader sharing economy.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

The Inside Story Behind Expedia’s Purchase of HomeAway

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Priceline Group Will Not Challenge Expedia for Control of HomeAway

With the Priceline Group out of the running to get into the Expedia-HomeAway sweepstakes, it appears very likely that the deal will sail through toward closing.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Priceline Group Will Not Challenge Expedia for Control of HomeAway

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Interview: Expedia and HomeAway CEOs Talk Acquisition, Mistakes and Opportunities

Three or four years ago, when Booking.com was trouncing Expedia quarter after quarter, you might have wondered why the Expedia CEO still had a job. Now he and Expedia-Trivago-Hotels.com-Travelocity-Orbitz-Wotif-HomeAway are on a big-time roll -- a rollup that's unprecedented in online travel.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Interview: Expedia and HomeAway CEOs Talk Acquisition, Mistakes and Opportunities

Hotels

Expedia’s HomeAway to Follow Airbnb’s Lead and Add a Booking Fee for Travelers

From a financial perspective, charging a booking fee to travelers was the missing piece from HomeAway -- and the company telegraphed several months ago that it was coming. Charging travelers fees will enable HomeAway to lower commissions to vacation rental owners to be more competitive with Airbnb and Flipkey.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Expedia’s HomeAway to Follow Airbnb’s Lead and Add a Booking Fee for Travelers

Hotels

TripAdvisor Apologizes Again to Vacation Rental Property Managers

Given their size, TripAdvisor and its FlipKey brand will weather this storm but they have some serious fence-mending to do with vacation rental property managers. It's not just airlines that sometimes cause a lot of pain when they make big technology changes.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

TripAdvisor Apologizes Again to Vacation Rental Property Managers

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HomeAway Buys Out the One-Third of Travelmob That It Didn’t Already Own

With the relatively smallish Travelmob transaction, HomeAway is doubling down on its existing investments in Asia-Pacific.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

HomeAway Buys Out the One-Third of Travelmob That It Didn’t Already Own