Short-Term Rental and Vacation Rental News

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.

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.

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.

While some hotel companies are worried about disruptive vacation rentals, Wyndham did $125 million in the sector in the fourth quarter. While vacation rental revenue was flat and rates were down, Wyndham has a big hedge against that disruption.

Facebook's success with Graph Search depends entirely upon users' willingness to share as much as they currently do, and then some. Whether or not that will continue to be the case is still to be determined.

Sharing economy is the new new thing and companies large and small that unlock the value of underutilized assets using digital platforms will help redefine large swathes of industries across the spectrum.

You are crazy if you think Airbnb and HomeAway aren't pressuring the traditiional hotel industry. Choice Hotels' new timeshare endeavor is a tiny manifestation of the disruption in the lodging industry.

There aren’t expectations for major shifts in vacation booking trends in 2013, but the marketplace for the services that offer is becoming more crowded than ever.

Chesky's statement at the PandoMonthly event about Airbnb working with local authorities conflicts with interviews we did with local authorities. They characterized discussions with Airbnb as a "one-way street" trying to legalize their business model.