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Guesty Raises Additional $170 Million in Series E to Expand Internationally and to New Verticals

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Guesty announced today that it has raised $170 million in a Series E funding round led by Apax Digital Funds, MSD Partners, and Sixth...
Business

Blue Star Acquires Majority Stake in TravelNet Solutions

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Blue Star Innovation Partners has acquired a majority stake in TravelNet Solutions (TNS), one of the largest software providers in the vacation rental industry....
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Vacasa (VCSA) Stock Falls as Lock-up Period Expires

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Since Monday, Vacasa (NASDAQ: VCSA) stock has fallen over 30 percent as trading volume increased and lock-up restrictions expired. The stock had a trading...
Business

Who Sold? Here’s What We Know: 2022 Vacation Rental Management Acquisitions

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There has been a recent whirlwind of acquisition activity in the vacation rental industry as national brands look to rapidly grow their portfolios. Although...
Business

VTtrips Acquires Carolina Retreats, Silver Sands, Miss Kitty’s, and Tybee Vacation Rentals

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VTrips announced the recent acquisition of four vacation rental management companies, expanding its portfolio throughout the United States to 7,000 properties and 1,000 employees. VTrips...
Business

VRM Intel Live Conference Heads to Ozark Region to Investigate Area’s Massive Growth

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We're taking the VRM Intel Live! Conference to the Ozark region for the first time next week to learn more about the area's explosive...
Business

VTrips Acquires Southern Vacation Rentals

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VTrips has acquired Southern Vacation Rentals, one of the largest independent property management companies in Florida. Founded in 1995, Southern Vacation Rentals (Southern) has...
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Using Airbnb For Bookings Just Got Even More Risky with New Refund Policy

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Yesterday Airbnb announced a change to its refund policy that has the potential to be disruptive for professional vacation rental managers and homeowners, aka...
Business

VRM Intel Live! Events Scheduled for Wilmington, Branson, and Breckenridge

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It's time for VRM Intel to take a road trip! A lot has changed in the vacation rental industry in the last two years,...
COVID-19

5th Annual #BookDirect Guest Education Day, Feb 2: Why It Matters

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It only takes listening to a couple of earnings calls from publicly traded hospitality companies to know how important direct bookings are to hotels,...
Business

VTrips acquires Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations and Ryson Vacation Rentals

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VTrips acquired two of the most recognizable brands in the vacation rental industry, Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations in McHenry, Maryland, and Ryson Vacations Rentals...
Business

Vacasa acquires Outer Beaches Realty on Hatteras Island

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Vacasa has acquired Outer Beaches Realty on Hatteras Island, North Carolina. According to the Outer Banks’ Island Free Press (IFP), plans are in the...
Business

EOS Investors acquires Brittain Hotels & Resorts in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

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EOS Investors LLC (EOS), a privately held hospitality investment firm, today announced a partnership with Brittain Resorts & Hotels, involving seven oceanfront resorts in...
Business

Exclusive: Vacasa CEO Matt Roberts discusses IPO on first day of trading

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It’s official. Vacasa began trading today as a public company (NASDAQ: VCSA). The TPG-backed SPAC assigned Vacasa a total value of nearly $4 billion,...
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STR Investor Sascha Hausmann Sentenced to 10 Months for Domestic Assault

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Sascha Hausmann, partner at Howzat Partners, has been sentenced to ten months in prison for assaulting his ex-partner. According to the release from Barcelona's...
Business

Key Data Raises $5M Series B from Ballast Point Ventures

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Ballast Point Ventures announced a $5 million Series B investment in Key Data Dashboard (“Key Data”), which provides benchmark and comparative market performance data...
Business

VRMA partners with Vrbo to expand membership to include individual hosts and homeowners

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Today the Vacation Rental Management Association announced to its membership that it is partnering with Vrbo and “expanding its membership to include rental property...
Business

FVRMA is now the Florida Alliance for Vacation Rentals (FAVR): Executive Director Denis Hanks discusses FVRMA’s rebrand

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The Florida Vacation Rental Management Association (FVRMA) announced last week during its annual meeting at the Xtravaganza conference that it is rebranding and changing...
COVID-19

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Predicts Travel Revolution: “Travel as we know it is never coming back.”

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At this week’s Skift Global Forum, Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky told an audience of travel providers that the world is experiencing a...
Business

Skift Founder and CEO Rafat Ali Discusses Upcoming Skift Global Forum, Sep 21-23

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Tuesday kicks off the annual Skift Global Forum at the TWA Hotel at New York’s JFK Airport, September 21 - 23. However, this year’s...
Business

Former Expedia and Airbnb Exec Shaun Stewart Shares Insight at Data and Revenue Management Conference

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In a keynote presentation at the 3rd Annual Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management (DARM) Conference last month, Shaun Stewart discussed the recent “seismic...
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Moving Mountains Acquires Breckenridge’s Paragon Lodging

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Colorado’s Moving Mountains has expanded into Breckenridge with the purchase of Paragon Lodging. Founded in 1997 by Robin and Heather Craigen, Moving Mountains currently...
Business

VTrips Receives “Significant” Equity Investment. Will Use $250M+ to Buy More Vacation Rental Management Companies

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One of the US's largest vacation rental management companies, Florida-based VTrips, received a "significant minority equity investment" from Hudson Hill Capital. According to the...
Business

Vacasa Acquires Meyer Vacation Rentals, Doubles Footprint on Alabama Gulf Coast

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Vacasa has purchased Meyer Vacation Rentals and Meyer Services from SH Enterprises, doubling its short-term rental footprint along the Alabama Gulf Coast. Starr Textiles...
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