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RedAwning.com purchases Blizzard Internet Marketing and rebrands to Red Awning Group

Today RedAwning.com announced it has acquired Colorado-based Blizzard Internet Marketing. “By joining forces with Blizzard, RedAwning strengthens its position as a global marketing engine supporting...

The Top Five Mistakes People Make When Selling A Business

The purchase and sale of vacation rental companies continues to be the most effective way to increase inventory and grow the value of an...

A Learning Experience: Urban Short-Term Rentals and Traditional Vacation Rentals

The Growth of Urban Short-Term Rentals Over the last few years we have seen a significant rise in the number of property management businesses operating...

The Rise of the Instant Satisfaction Guest and How It Is Transforming Operations

Remember when providing linens or cleaning the property post-stay entailed additional charges to the customer? And renting linens didn’t mean the beds would be made...

Defining brand and expectations with guest communications

As I listened to Simon Lehmann at the European VRMA Conference explain why he always brings a set of sharp knives when staying at a vacation rental, I...

Technology-enabled Property Management Lodging Platforms

The vacation rental industry is undergoing a rapid transformation in terms of both market growth and in the operational and lodging side. With the...

Google Hotels: Not The Magic Bullet

Are Google Hotel Ads the best way to grow your brand? Is this the answer to the ongoing issues with OTAs? This is a...
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Northwest Vacation Rental Professionals Selects Fetch My Guest to Power NorthwestStays.com in Landmark #BookDirect Initiative

Fetch My Guest and the Northwest Vacation Rental Professionals partnership addresses the concerns of many in the vacation rental industry. Vacation rental travelers are...

Sea to Sky Rentals expands into Bellingham with One Suite Stay partnership

Sea to Sky Rentals announced an expansion of its luxury vacation rental inventory into North Puget Sound and Bellingham, Washington. adding 14 high-end vacation...

Matt Landau’s Sense of Place Begins Season Two

Vacation rental professionals, rejoice! Sense of Place, the quirky and avant-garde travel show that follows VRMB's Matt Landau as he meets worldly destinations through the...

HomeAway’s New Listing Agreement Leads to More Frustration Among Vacation Rental Managers

Expedia-owned HomeAway recently released an updated Listing Agreement for Property Managers which includes language for integrated property managers (PMs) that is causing anxiety in the...

NAVIS adds former WayBlazer CEO and Sabre president to its Board

NAVIS announced travel industry veteran Felix Laboy has joined its board. Laboy joins an elite advisory team which includes Tom Gonser, founder of DocuSign, and Sanjay Dholakia,...

Properly Announces First Amazon Echo Remote Management Support in Vacation Rental Tech

Properly today announced support for remote management of Amazon’s line of Echo devices, the first of its kind in the vacation rental industry. The...

Expedia CEO discusses HomeAway’s 2017 performance, match back, and relationship with suppliers

In after-hours trading, Expedia, Inc. shares fell 17 percent as the company missed analysts' quarterly profit estimate on higher marketing expenses. While there is much...
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Co-founder Cliff Johnson resigns from Vacasa

Vacasa co-founder Cliff Johnson has resigned from his role as head of the company's international division to join Rented.com as vice president of sales. "Cliff’s...

Vacation Rental Shopping 101: How to Book a Vacation Home Directly with the Manager or Owner

The word is out. Airbnb, VRBO.com, HomeAway, and TripAdvisor charge fees to consumers. Unlike in the hotel industry, where the booking fees are passed on...

Vacation rental managers and owners share #bookdirect messages

With #BookDirect, a.k.a. Guest Education Day, fast approaching on February 7, vacation rental managers and owners are sharing their #bookdirect messages for travelers. Here...

TripsIn.com joins in the February 7 #BookDirect movement

Built to be a true lead generation site, TripsIn.com offers a new option for property managers and owners. TripsIn.com abolishes consumer booking fees and...

Tripz.com is supporting #BookDirect day on February 7th, 2018

The first ever Guest Education Day is coming up on February 7th, 2018, and there is a new social media campaign to help reach...

Simon Lehmann: “This game is, by far, not over yet.” 

Simon Lehmann discusses the future of the vacation rental industry, Airbnb, HomeAway, and upcoming challenges and opportunities  When researching the vacation rental sector, it doesn’t take long to encounter...

Vacation Rental Pros rebrands as VTrips

Vacation Rental Pros, one of the largest multi-destination, technology-enabled property management companies in the US has rebranded as VTrips. The announcement marks the latest...
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OTAs have been learning from working with hotels and are applying these lessons to vacation rentals

At industry events, including VRM Intel Live, industry experts often talk about what hotels learned from working with OTAs and how vacation rental owners...

Is Orange Beach, AL ground zero for vacation rental bans?

On Thursday, the city council of Orange Beach, Alabama heard comments related to a proposed ban on all new licenses for vacation rentals (under...

Airbnb Amends Lawsuit Against Santa Monica to Focus on California Coastal Act and Federal Law

AirBnb did not waste any time in taking action to incorporate last week's California Coastal Commission 9-2 vote to reject Laguna Beach’s ordinance, which...

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