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Mountain Travel Symposium: Panel discusses rentals-by-owners

By Lauren Glendenning Websites like VRBO.com and Airbnb.com are giving discerning travelers an alternative to resort lodging in mountain destinations, but they’re also creating some...

Surpassing the competition, LiveRez’s Tracy Lotz remains committed to independence

802. 802 is the number of vacation rental management companies who have purchased LiveRez’s vacation rental management software platform as of April 9, 2014. Vacation...

Vacasa acquires Utah Vacation Homes

Portland, OR based property management company Vacasa Rentals recently purchased Utah Vacation Homes. Founded in 2009, fast-growing Vacasa manages over 700 vacation homes in the western U.S.,...

HomeAway: Over $40M Sold -HomeAway execs Sharples, Shepherd, Buhrdorf, Hale et al. sell shares for $40M+

Updated: April 11, 2014 HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples has another significant chunk of stock for at least the fourth time in the past five weeks. Sharples acquired...

Myrtle Beach vacation rentals generated $200M + 2,500 jobs

Last year, short-term rentals in Myrtle Beach generated an economic output of $200.7 million and supported 2,587 jobs. Residents and the local tourism industry of...

Study Finds Short-Term Rentals Bring Enormous Economic Benefits to Coachella Valley

Last year, short-term rentals in Coachella Valley generated $272 million in overall economic activity and supported 2,539 jobs.   COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. – March 27 –...

FL Amendment to Vacation Rental Bill Moves Closer to Governor’s Desk…With Limits

Facing opposition from property rights advocates and the vacation rental industry, state lawmakers in both the House and Senate took a step back from...
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Vacation rentals at center of Asheville, NC dispute

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Officials in Asheville have three months to come up with rules and regulations regarding short-term vacation rentals after property owners...

Fortune Looks at HomeAway and Airbnb

On March 12, 2014, an interesting article released by Fortune titled Quietly Growing Up in Airbnb's Shadow, provides a unique perspective on the similarities...

Rel=”Canonical” Tags: Saving SEO for Vacation Rental Managers?

Rel="canonical" tags are used when duplicate content is present to let search engines (e.g. Google) know that the content on a page is not...

Industry Leaders Weigh In On Recent Acquisitions

In the last month, the vacation rental industry has seen several acquisitions of technology companies: RealPage acquired Bookt/Instamanager VacationRoost acquired LeisureLink HomeAway acquired Glad to Have You Each...

Under the Hood with Resort Realty

This article is part of the Under the Hood Series in which we interviewed executives from on-the-grow vacation rental management companies to discuss everything...

Startup Success: What Glad to Have You Did Right

HomeAway, Inc’s recent acquisition of the two year old startup Glad to Have You for some technology entrepreneurs is a Cinderella story, but Glad...

VacationRoost Acquires LeisureLink

VacationRoost Group Inc. ("VR") today announced a substantial expansion of their Vacation Home Reservation Network with the acquisition of LeisureLink Inc.  (www.Leisurelink.com). The combined...
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Under the Hood: Tybee Vacation Rentals

This is part 5 in the Under the Hood Series in which we interviewed executives from seven on-the-grow vacation rental management companies to discuss...

HomeAway Acquires Glad to Have You

HomeAway, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWAY), the world's leading online marketplace for vacation rentals, today announced that, through an all cash transaction, it has acquired Glad...

4 Easy, Inexpensive Marketing Tactics to Help Gain a Competitive Advantage in 2014

It’s a game of inches. It's an industry of pennies. These are two comments often made by professional vacation rental managers, who recognize that...

Maxxton Drives Vacation Rental Reservations with its Direct Connection to Booking.com

Maxxton, the largest provider of Hospitality Enterprise Resource Planning solutions for the vacation rental industry, supports Booking.com’s length of stay pricing tables to increase...

Vacation Rentals Even More Popular With U.S. Travelers In 2014, According To TripAdvisor Survey

52 Percent of Survey Respondents Planning a Rental Stay This Year, Up from 44 Percent Who Stayed in a Rental in 2013. TripAdvisor(R) , the...

Surf or Sound Realty Launches New Vacation Rental Website

Avon, NC – Surf or Sound Realty is pleased to announce the launch of its newly rebuilt website: www.surforsound.com. Since 1978, Surf or Sound...

Bookt/InstaManager Acquired by RealPage

This week, Bookt LLC, the company behind InstaManager®, was acquired by RealPage Inc. (NASDAQ:RP), a leading property management systems and services company. With this acquisition,...
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Resort Realty OBX expands on Hatteras Island

Resort Realty is proud to announce the opening of its Hatteras Island division for 2014. This will make the fifth office for the company,...

2014 Vacation Rental Management Mobile App Survey Results Are In

In January, VRM Intel surveyed vacation rental mangers about their company's mobile app usage. 63% of the property managers surveyed had implemented a mobile...

Big Changes at NAVIS

NAVIS has made recent changes which are designed to both allow for rapid expansion and provide more specialized and personalized service to clients in...

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