Articles tagged “vacation rentals”

Pay per booking is the next big thing, as far as HomeAway is concerned, and it is phasing it the new optional business model to its fiefdom around the world.

HomeAway's new communications' system was a year-and-a half in the making, and likely was very costly, but it was necessary not only to corral wayward owners, but to restore confidence in light of a phishing epidemic. HomeAway customers will be happy to know the company assembled a war room to deal with their backlash, but battle averted, for now.

This list is only slightly more diverse than last year's suggesting that families within the U.S. remain the vacation rental market's top customer.

Dubai has the opportunity to become an example of how cities can gain control of their currently unregulated rental markets while strengthening their tourism offerings.

In a turning point for Booking.com and the hospitality industry, the largest lodging site in the world now has so many vacation rental listings, dispersed across 193 destinations, that it is changing the nature of the online travel business.

HomeAway and vacation rentals in general could really become more disruptive to the hotel industry if HomeAway gets the sort of wide distribution on partner sites that its executives have in mind.

HomeAway's acquisition of Stayz fits very well with HomeAway's recent big push in Asia-Pacific, and also with its drive to transition to a pay-per-booking model, which Stayz has operated for years.

The Vacation Rental Management Association doesn't have the digital savvy or clout to forge a new set of business relationships between professional managers on the one hand, and online travel agencies and vacation rental sites such as HomeAway, on the other. Too little, and way too late.

HomeAway's history is rollups in the vacation rental space, from around the globe. It has this down.

By launching this new luxury site, HomeAway is leveraging existing assets and tweaking them a bit with a dose of curation. Given the rise of vacation clubs and the supposed boom in luxury travel, this move makes a lot of sense.