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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.

Hotels

Trends that will define the vacation rentals market in 2013

Expect a lot more legal issues to get clarified over the next year, especially around Airbnb. And owners/renters will look to get more organized and professional as more tools and startups emerge.

Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

The local fines that Airbnb doesn’t want users to know about

Airbnb does not want to warn its hosts of their legal obligations because doing so would not only scare away tens of thousands of listings, it would put the Achilles' Heel of their business model in full display.

Skift | 11 years ago

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Hotels

Hotel Transylvania coming to Blu-ray as TripAdvisor admits review fakery

Hotel Transylvania, the movie, video and game, typifies today's multichannel marketing, with its digital and social forays.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Hotel Transylvania coming to Blu-ray as TripAdvisor admits review fakery

Hotels

Airbnb CEO has a vision of a future where everyone shares — and Airbnb collects a modest fee

Love it or laugh at it, Chesky's talk was the most thought-provoking moment at the PhoCusWright conference. Yes, the lodging industry will undergo far-reaching changes, but don't burn your mortgages just yet.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Airbnb CEO has a vision of a future where everyone shares — and Airbnb collects a modest fee

Hotels

Airbnb Neighborhoods puts the alternative lodging company into the travel guide business

These only have a shot at becoming a real challenger to both digital and traditional publishers if they crack the code on the best way to integrate guest reviews and real-world updates into quality destination information.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Airbnb Neighborhoods puts the alternative lodging company into the travel guide business

Hotels

Trying to find an honest apartment on Airbnb during Sandy: Not so easy

Beyond the good-will, post-Sandy PR from new media companies like Airbnb were the real, on-the-ground realities of price-gouging and odd cancellations that are the persisten reality of any rental marketplace.

Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels

HomeAway turns to tiered pricing to keep business rolling in Europe

Homeaway reports a steady rise in revenue, due in part to its technology integration of VRBO, and including its nascent Australian market into earnings for the first time.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

HomeAway turns to tiered pricing to keep business rolling in Europe

Airlines

Travel companies lend a helping hand in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

Travel companies from startups to legacy airlines have stepped up during disasters to help out their customers, employees, and the destinations they rely on for their businesses to prosper.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Travel companies lend a helping hand in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

Hotels

Priceline doing well but feeling pressure from Expedia, margins and hotel mix

Anyone who counted Expedia out in its competition against Priceline might have under-estimated the potential of Expedia's hotel platform investments. Meanwhile, Priceline has a very talented management that it is steering it ahead as market conditions change.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Short-Term Rentals

King of timeshares: Too poor to pay sales agents, rich enough to build world’s biggest McMansion

To outsiders, timeshare salesman exist to make used-car salesman look respectable. To multi-millionaire Siegel they exist to sell your properties, then not pay commissions to. It's hard to imagine a situation where someone could look scummier.

David Wren, The Sun News | 11 years ago