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2021 Summer Review: Leisure Vacation Rentals Surpass Expectations

For many US vacation rental homeowners and managers, the 2021 summer season was likely the most profitable they have ever experienced. Although 2020’s summer...

Simon Lehmann and Nicolas Galantini: Harnessing Industry Recovery

After 19 months of an unprecedented global pandemic, the travel industry—as a whole—has deeply suffered. However, recoveries across the travel industry have not all...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Upcoming battleground puts a spotlight on revenue management technology in the short-term rental sector

Over the last two years, the short-term rental (STR) industry has exploded with increased consumer demand and a large amount of media attention resulting...

The Industry Needs Your Feedback in Phocuswright’s 2021 Short-Term Rental Survey

Short-term rentals in the US have been on a steady growth trajectory over the past decade. Since 2013, Phocuswright, a leading travel industry research...

Why Your Business Should Have an In-House Information Technology Leader at the Table

Technology growth and consolidation in the vacation rental industry have exploded over the past five years. In a market where there were only five...

Providing Guests with a Catered Travel Experience: Big Brands Collection of Zero-Party Data

What day of the week is it again? With so many of us staying home because of the pandemic, it can be hard to...
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COVID-19’s Silver Lining: Growth of Property Technology in the Vacation Rental Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed hardships on many throughout our society over the past year. Yet some of us might admit in hushed tones...

Financial Planning: Connecting Your Business Ownership with Your Personal Goals

Most successful business owners have a plan for their business, and quite often they have a mission statement. Mission statements usually spell out a...

3rd Annual Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference: Session Descriptions by Time (Data, Revenue Management, Marketing, and Executive)

3rd Annual Vacation Rental DARM Conference (vrdarm.com) August 16 - 18, 2021 Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC  Click here for a printable PDF on the DARM...

Third-Party Distribution Channels: Are OTAs Your Foe, Friend, or Frenemy?

My experience on this topic began with a foundation in the hotel industry where I saw distribution, revenue management, and use of online travel...

Thinking Outside the (In)box: Using Email Marketing to Drive Bookings in Today’s Economic Climate

The world of travel is opening again. With COVID-related restrictions lifting and vaccine distribution expanding, the public is hungry for travel—and they’re booking vacation...

NAVIS Purchased in Private Equity Rollup under Hotel Marketing Platform Revinate

In an email to its clients today, NAVIS announced that it has been purchased by Serent Capital as part of a rollup under the...

Stand Out from the Crowd by Teching Up Your Rental Property

We’ve seen a rising wave of professionalization sweep across the vacation rental industry in recent months as property managers and owners have responded to...
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New Vacation Rental Data Standards in a Post-Pandemic World

Experts in many fields, from economics to health care, have referred to COVID-19 as an accelerator that escalated shifts in societal behavior. The pandemic...

Professional Vacation Rental Marketers are Heading to Charleston for a Post-Covid Look into the Future, Aug 17 – 18

Professional vacation rental marketers looking to the future are predicting a rapidly changing competitive landscape. After hearing from these executives, a substantive marketing track...

OTAs: The End of Property Management as We Know It

  A $70 Billion Difference  A manager at one of the three big global listing platforms recently told me, “There is no doubt that rent-by-owner has...

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