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Articles tagged “vrbo”

Online Travel

Airbnb’s Guest-Host ‘Flywheel’ Advantage Is More Myth Than Reality

Airbnb will spend tens of millions of dollars, if not more, on its global advertising and referral campaigns to recruit more hosts, and that's probably a smart move. On the face of it, though, this proves that the company's host sign-up efforts are hardly organic, as one analyst alleged.

Airbnb’s Guest-Host ‘Flywheel’ Advantage Is More Myth Than Reality

Online Travel

Will Airbnb Pop or Fizzle After Its First Earnings Announcement?

Will Airbnb continue on its magic carpet ride after it reports its first earnings as a public company? Does the Airbnb brand beat Booking Holdings' real-world businesses, including hotels, flights and metasearch? Or has the market already decided that question?

Will Airbnb Pop or Fizzle After Its First Earnings Announcement?

Business Travel

Expedia Has No Plans to Spin Off Vrbo for Valuation ‘Games’

Expedia has no plans to spin off whole-home site Vrbo following Airbnb's blockbuster IPO. Instead, the company is doubling down on expanding the site through its various channels amid a strong pandemic vacation rental market.

Expedia Has No Plans to Spin Off Vrbo for Valuation ‘Games’

Online Travel

Marriott’s Arne Sorenson Upended Travel Distribution

Arne Sorenson was a maverick in his own way. He quietly visited Airbnb headquarters in 2014 to get a better understanding of short-term rentals, which culminated in Marriott's Homes & Villas. And he found a way to have a mutually beneficial relationship with those "evil" online travel agencies.

Marriott’s Arne Sorenson Upended Travel Distribution

Online Travel

Expedia Pulls Vrbo Rental Listings From Google to Drive More Direct Traffic

Expedia Group will restart its marketing machine in phases. First, it will tout its vacation rental brands like Vrbo. By around April, it will roll out a campaign touting Expedia as a place for booking "the complete trip." It makes sense to pay for those efforts partly by cutting some of its Google investment.

Expedia Pulls Vrbo Rental Listings From Google to Drive More Direct Traffic

Online Travel

Airbnb’s Blockbuster IPO May Tempt Barry Diller to Spin Off Vrbo From Expedia

One plus one can equal three sometimes when it comes to spinoffs, especially during the current era where there appears to be an IPO and valuation bubble. Expedia Group seems to be resisting an impulse to spin off Vrbo, let alone Egencia, for now, but the pressure could be substantial.

Airbnb’s Blockbuster IPO May Tempt Barry Diller to Spin Off Vrbo From Expedia

Online Travel

Vrbo and Expedia Dominate Online Travel TV Advertising in the U.S. So Far in 2021

Sister brands Vrbo and Expedia are being opportunistic in getting relatively aggressive about U.S. TV advertising early in 2021 when rival brands are standing down. You can debate whether it is smart or risky given the pandemic backdrop.

Vrbo and Expedia Dominate Online Travel TV Advertising in the U.S. So Far in 2021

Online Travel

Does Booking Have What It Takes to Compete Against Airbnb?

Booking.com clearly operates in Airbnb's shadow in short-term rentals. Although long-term stays are currently a hot commodity, Booking.com is tardy in enabling such capabilities. That's a fitting symbol for the current state of play.

Does Booking Have What It Takes to Compete Against Airbnb?

Short-Term Rentals

Exploring the Airbnb Paradox: New Skift Research

It’s finally here! Skift Research has been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to get its hands on Airbnb’s public filings. This report analyzes the challenges and strategies of the most influential company in the short-term rental industry.

Exploring the Airbnb Paradox: New Skift Research

Hotels

The Future of Short-Term Rentals After the Pandemic and an Airbnb IPO

The entire hospitality industry would agree that short-term rentals led the tentative recovery in the spring and into the summer in many parts of the world. But a key question will be how will they respond when hotels and cities come back in earnest — and with vaccines a real possibility, they certainly will.

The Future of Short-Term Rentals After the Pandemic and an Airbnb IPO