Page 129

Short-Term Rental and Vacation Rental News

Find news stories, highlighting the latest trends, developments, and opportunities in the vacation and short-term rental markets. Read stories about property management, regulation changes, and the impact of technology on the guest experience. News stories in the archive also analyze the role of major players in the industry, such as Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com, and how their strategies and innovations are influencing the overall market.

Hotels

American Express takes stake in luxury vacation club Inspirato

Inspirato's rebranding and partnership with American Express puts it on the map. The companies still have to prove; however, that there is a large enough market for Inspirato's luxury services.

American Express takes stake in luxury vacation club Inspirato

Hotels

HomeAway isn’t worried about Booking.com’s vacation rental challenge

HomeAway's Brian Sharples isn't worried about online travel agencies getting into vacation rentals. InterContinental, Marriott and Hilton have the OTAs on a relatively tight leash, and won't stand for a serious flirtation with those dreaded vacation rentals.

HomeAway isn’t worried about Booking.com’s vacation rental challenge
bedroom_parent

Dwell Newsletter

Get breaking news, analysis and data from the week’s most important stories about short-term rentals, vacation rentals, housing, and real estate.

Hotels

How HomeAway’s CEO tapped into Kayak’s mobile “genius”

This is a big year for HomeAway: It is retooling its business model, and will attempt to get its mobile products in order. Good thing it has experts to lean on.

How HomeAway’s CEO tapped into Kayak’s mobile “genius”

Airlines

SkiftSeedlings: Five travel startups hack rentals, layovers, and gym passes

SkiftSeedlings: Five travel startups hack rentals, layovers, and gym passes

Hotels

Video: HomeAway’s CEO on why Airbnb isn’t really competition

In contrast to the opaque balance sheet of its more hyped peers, HomeAway's CEO can confidently point to six strong quarters as a public company.

Hotels

How Booking.com and its ad campaign may change your lodging options

Where Booking.com leads, other online travel agencies tend to follow. Don't be surprised if you start seeing more apartment hotels and hostels appearing on Expedia sometime soon.

How Booking.com and its ad campaign may change your lodging options

Hotels

Hostels reimagined in the age of boutique hotels & social media

If the whole world is becoming more "affordable design" conscious, why couldn't hostels be too?

Airlines

U.S. Travel ecommerce spending tops $100 billion, airlines outpace hotels

The online future of travel was decided a while ago, the growth numbers on mobile will define the next decade.

Online Travel

HomeAway will copy Airbnb and Booking.com for new initiatives

HomeAway is mimicking Airbnb's pay-per booking model in some ways, although HomeAway isn't getting into peer-to-peer apartment rentals in any big way just yet.

Online Travel

Chinese vacation rental site gets big funding, totals $64 million

Everything in China requires big money to scale, to the big scale that the country demands. Tujia is clearly on that path, and HomeAway was smart to partner and then invest.