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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.

Airlines

Google rebuff to TripIt, WorldMate and TripCase with new reservations search tool

TripIt, WorldMate and GateGuru focus on their itinerary management and flight-tracking specialties, but Google has given them all something to think about with its new search service for flight, hotel and restaurant reservations.

Google rebuff to TripIt, WorldMate and TripCase with new reservations search tool

Hotels

Vacation rental association continues its listless push for distribution

The vacation rental switch will be used by professionally managed properties for wider distribution and this would give travelers more reliable options when staying in vacation homes.

Vacation rental association continues its listless push for distribution
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Hotels

Hilton Head collects $150,000 from vacation rental owners after identifying VRBO “properties of interest”

The free tax ride may be over for vacation rental owners listing their properties on sites such as VRBO and HomeAway.

Hotels

MyGola pivots from concierge-planned trips to algorithmic ones

MyGola is taking a technology approach to easing trip-planning pain. Algorithms may cost a lot less over the long term than human travel planners, but let's see if there is enough of an audience for the service.

MyGola pivots from concierge-planned trips to algorithmic ones

Hotels

Airbnb acquires Localmind to create crowdsourced advice about neighborhoods

The room-booking site has made recent efforts to boost its local wisdom with products featuring neighborhood best of lists and tips from residents and Airbnb users. Localmind's integration may help it improve the type of advice it can offer.

Online Travel

Airbnb will eat travel and real estate industry’s lunch, says investor Marc Andreessen

No one accused Airbnb for not being hugely ambitious, and it has made moves including adding neighborhood guides and possibly tours and activities down the lines. But it may have better chances of conquering travel than real estate where local and state regulations will be the biggest headwind.

Hotels

Will Airbnb soon offer local tours?

Rather than prevailing on time-constrained hosts to double as local tour guides, Airbnb could find plenty of partners in the hood.

Will Airbnb soon offer local tours?

Hotels

Gilt selling Jetsetter because there’s no clear path for growth under it

Too much, too fast, that's the Gilt story, though it has been smart about cutting fast too. Jetsetter's sale, while 6 months too late, it still the best option for future growth of the standalone travel booking site.

Gilt selling Jetsetter because there’s no clear path for growth under it

Hotels

Climate change is killing profits for winter tourist destinations, study says

Colorado and New Hampshire ski resorts felt the sting last winter from little snowfall suggesting that the study’s expectations aren’t so outrageous.

Climate change is killing profits for winter tourist destinations, study says

Online Travel

HomeAway and Tujia offer vacation rentals to Chinese traveling abroad

This is a very modest start for HomeAway, but it could turn into a very big business.

HomeAway and Tujia offer vacation rentals to Chinese traveling abroad