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10 Questions with Airbnb’s Head of Professional Hosting, Clara Liang 

Airbnb currently offers 5 million listings in 191 markets (compared to HomeAway, which lists 1.6 million properties). Growth rates at Airbnb have been extraordinary,...

Baltimore Set to Ban New Short-Term Rentals

Baltimore city council is likely to issue final approval of a short-term rental ordinance to ban new short-term rentals. Bill 18-0189 limits licenses for...

Simon Lehmann on Vacation Rental Software: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 

The vacation rental industry is booming. In the United States alone, there are an estimated 4,500 professional operators managing more than 600,000 units with a compound annual supply growth...

Properly Raises $8.5M for Housekeeping and Inspection Tech Platform for Airbnb Hosts

2018's third quarter already has been packed with venture capital and private equity funding news. In the latest of a series of announcements, San Francisco-based Properly,...

Streamline Raises Funding and Acquires Bizcor

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HomeAway Software is Getting Out of the Website-Building Business: Will Shut Down Escapia Web Services in May 2019

HomeAway Software has been providing and maintaining websites for hundreds of professional property management companies who use its market-leading Escapia software platform since purchasing the...

LiveRez CEO Tracy Lotz Wins Idaho Innovator of the Year Award

Last week, LiveRez CEO Tracy Lotz received the 2018 innovator of the year award from the Idaho Innovation Awards. The award recognizes Idaho professionals who...
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What Recent Hotel Industry Numbers Mean for Vacation Rentals

At Triptease’s Direct Booking Summit for the hotel industry in early October, Isaac Collazo, vice president of competitive intelligence at IHG, shared several largely...

Vacasa Raises Additional $64 Million in Funding, Bringing Total to $207.5 Million

Vacasa today announced the company has closed on $64 million in a Series B-2 round led by existing investor Riverwood Capital with participation from...

DC Council Delays Final Vote on Short-Term Rental Bill

The DC council moved yesterday to delay its second reading and final vote on a short-term rental bill that includes a ban of second-home...

Hawaii County Advances Short-Term Rental Bill

The Hawaii County council planning committee voted 6–1 in favor of advancing short-term rental regulation Bill 108 to two final council votes. If passed...

Phocuswright Conference to Address Alternative Accommodations

Alternative accommodations, short-term rentals, vacation rentals—however you label this fast-growing lodging sector—there's no denying its impact on travel. The Phocuswright Conference, to be held...

Northwest Vacation Rental Professionals Launch NorthwestStays.com

Northwest Vacation Rental Professionals (NWVRP) has partnered with Fetch My Guest to launch NorthwestStays.com, a vacation rental marketplace for NWVRP's 56 member companies to...

Las Vegas Planning Commission Sends Short-Term Rental Ban to City Council

The Las Vegas city planning commission voted 4-3 Tuesday night to approve a ban of short-term rentals. The proposal will now head to the city...
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DC Second-Home Rental Ban Passes First Vote Unanimously

Update 10/16/18 at 2:20 p.m.: The bill's second reading and final vote were deferred to the legislative meeting on November 13 at 11 a.m. All...

Expedia CEO on HomeAway: “We bought the Craigslist of vacation rentals.” #SkiftForum

At the recent Skift Global Forum, Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom fielded on-stage questions from Skift founding editor, Dennis Schaal, about the progress the company is...

TurnKey Adds InvitedHome Co-founders to Management Team

InvitedHome co-founders, Michael Joseph and Tom Feldhusen, left the company to join the TurnKey Vacation Rentals team. According to TJ Clark, CEO at Austin-based TurnKey, the...

Are Hotels Obsessed with Direct Bookings?

Hoteliers are debating the amount of focus that should be given to direct bookings. Recent PhocusWire articles, written by reporter Lisa Fox and Duetto's Patrick...

Former Airbnb Exec Shaun Stewart Discusses the State of the Vacation Rental Industry at LiveRez User Conference

Last week at the LiveRez Partner Conference in Boise, Shaun Stewart, chief business development officer of Waymo and former global head of vacation rentals...

IHG Reports Strong Hotel Industry Numbers and Outlook

“We are in the best demand market of our lifetimes,” said Isaac Collazo, vice president of competitive intelligence at IHG. Collazo presented hotel industry trends,...

Stay Alfred Raises $47M, Bringing Total Funding to $62M

Today, Stay Alfred announced it has raised $47 million in a Series B round led by Nine Four Ventures, bringing the total funding to $62...
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Vacasa Acquires/Saves Oasis Collections

Vacasa announced it has purchased Oasis Collections, a short-term rental company with listings in U.S. and international cities including Barcelona, Chicago, London, Milan, Paris,...

D.C. Council to Vote on Second-Home Rental Ban

On October 2, the Washington, DC council will conduct a first reading and vote on a revised short-term rental bill that eases some restrictions...

HomeAway and Expedia Group Presidents Predict Next 10 Years of Travel and Tech

In a fireside chat at HomeAway’s Rezfest yesterday, HomeAway president John Kim and Expedia Group brand president Aman Bhutani discussed what they see coming in...

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