Articles tagged “vrbo”

Texas could be the future of the vacation rental market.

HomeAway Co-founder Carl Shepherd thinks the vacation rental industry isn’t doing enough for individual hosts.

The easier route for platforms to scale listings is to contract with property managers. But Airbnb thinks that the secret sauce is individual hosts.

If a soft economy is causing luxury travelers to limit their discretionary spending, that's sour news for Chase Travel in the short term. But over the long term, Chase Travel and some of its banking peers are trending upwards in travel.

According to Airbnb lore, the short-term rental was born in 2007 when, “two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home.” Fast forward 17 years and Airbnb now has over 5 million hosts … and most all of them have neighbors. That’s led to some epic feuds.

Expedia can't compete with TikTok or Instagram in audience numbers, so we'll see how much traction Travel Shops can gain.

As prices start to dip for short-term rentals during the Olympics, this could be a good time to snag a (relatively decent) deal.

Expedia Group's new CEO, Ariane Gorin, wants to build a great product and accelerate growth. The rest would take care of itself.

No one ever said revamping the nuts, bolts and servers of a sprawling Expedia Group would be easy. How 2024 plays out will say a lot about whether all that toil was worth it.

Expedia provided a different explanation as to the cause of its global outages after we presented the company with a different account.