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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.

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Wyndham Vacation Rentals launches new site and starts to rebrand

The new Wyndham Vacation Rentals site offers some modern, e-commerce pizazz. The rebranding to a more widely known brand makes sense, too.

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How Flipkey plans to get back in the game

Flipkey will continue to try to differntiate itself through reliable user reviews and inbound traffic from TripAdvisor, but it will need to overcome its parent company's propensity to under-invest in its non-TA properties.

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

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The sharing economy likes deals and access most, the environment not so important

Like cycling to work and public transit, the sharing economy works because it makes sense, not because people are altruistic. And that's not a bad thing.

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Video: Airbnb’s co-founder Brian Chesky talks trust and alternative lodging with the BBC

For a site built largely upon the belief that people (or at least early adopters) are generally good, Airbnb is a model for how optimism can transform an industry.

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Portico Club and Inspirato face off for vacation club supremacy

Can Portico by Exclusive Resorts and Inspirato resort to marketing super-exclusive vacation clubs to the mega wealthy? What Greek debt crisis? There probably is a market for this, and Steve Case and a bunch of other venture capitalists are making a downpayment on these clubs' viability.

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Social-travel site CasaHop takes big step with $1.2M in funding

CasaHop might be called social tech rather than social travel because it is a heavy tech play in the home-exchange arena.