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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...

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...
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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...

Skift’s Rafat Ali and Hyatt CEO Mark Hoplamazian Discuss Alternative Accommodations

Earlier today at Skift Global Forum in New York, Skift founder Rafat Ali and Hyatt CEO Mark Hoplamazian discussed the company's trajectory and the...

Google Product and Marketing Execs Confirm the Company is Adding Vacation Rentals

Google's Richard Holden, vice president of product management, and Rob Torres, managing director of advertising and marketing for the travel sector spoke with Sean O'Neill...

Steve Trover Discusses Closing All Star Vacation Homes and the Hard Lessons He Learned Along the Way

We live in an inauthentic world of PR spin, and the vacation rental industry is no exception. We brag about successes and hide failures....

Streamline Summit 2018 Recap

Last week, Streamline Vacation Rental Software hosted 525 property management professionals and forty-one vendors at its fifth annual Streamline Summit at the Westin Kierland...

Industry Professionals Launch Utah Vacation Rental Managers Association

Utah property managers can now join the recently launched Utah Vacation Rental Managers Association (UVRMA). Founded by vacation rental and real estate professional Brad...

Ocean Reef Vacation Rentals Acquires Rivard of South Walton Rentals

Ocean Reef Vacation Rentals & Real Estate acquired majority ownership stake in Rivard of South Walton Rentals, which manages 100 homes in Grayton Beach and...
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RemoteLock Updates Logo and Combines All Brands Into One

RemoteLock, provider of the leading cloud platform for smart locks, announced August 15 that it has updated its logo and combined all its brands...

HomeAway Launches Pet-Friendly Vacation Rental Collection

HomeAway announced Monday it has launched a new collection of pet-friendly homes on HomeAway.com. For bookings made on hmwy.co/pet-travel between now and December 31,...

Florida Gulf Coast Red Tide Stifles Tourism and Vacation Rentals

Red tides are not uncommon in the Gulf of Mexico, but the tide that started last October is one to be reckoned with. Red...

MyVR’s Series A Funding Brings Randy Sparks Back to the Vacation Rental Industry

MyVR’s $6.1 million Series A funding last December is being deployed in part to grow its first sales department, and its first hire brought...

Vacation Rental Series “Stay Here” Now Streaming on Netflix

The Netflix original series “Stay Here” debuts today, shining a new spotlight on the vacation rental industry. The show features well-known interior designer and...

VR Mastered Boot Camp Comes to Santa Cruz

The VR Mastered Boot Camp returns this fall to bring the educational series to vacation rental owners and property managers. This year’s event will...

Massachusetts Short-Term Rental Bill Hangs in Limbo

At the end of July, Massachusetts lawmakers approved short-term rental regulations that include registration, tax collection, and a state-wide public registry of licensed rentals....
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Albuquerque Eyes Short-Term Rental Regulations

Last week, Albuquerque city council sent a bill to the finance and government operations committee to create a task force to explore options for...

Share San Diego, Airbnb, and HomeAway Launch Referendum Fight Against Short-Term Rental Regulations

Airbnb, HomeAway, and advocacy group Share San Diego announced yesterday a referendum petition to overturn the effective ban on second-home short-term rentals in San...

Summit Mountain Rentals Raises $50,000 Through Homeowner Matching Program

Summit Mountain Rentals (SMR) recently hit a $50,000 fundraising milestone through a creative philanthropic tool: a program in which homeowners can contribute a percentage...

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