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Property Managers as Hospitality Providers and the Future of Service

There’s a push-pull situation emerging in vacation home rentals where operators must determine the right balance between how much touch-free service they can or...

What Investors Don’t Understand about the Short-Term Rental Industry

Outside investment has been pouring into the short-term rental industry for the last seven years with increasing intensity, but on the heels of Airbnb’s...

Elevating Standards, Quality & Guest Experience in Vacation Rentals

"The issue of raising quality in short-term rentals is a fundamental one for our industry. It is so closely tied with raising standards, trust,...

Key Data Acquires Pre-Market Startup Demand IQ to Add Demand Data to its Booking Data

Key Data has acquired DemandIQ, a technology product designed to capture real-time, forward-looking traveler demand data. Demand IQ was founded in 2020 by Amber...

Recent Investments and Acquisitions in the Vacation Rental Industry: How They Affect Local Management Companies, and Where Does the Industry Go from Here?

News of acquisitions and investment in the vacation rental industry has been pouring in since Airbnb’s IPO: Vacasa buys TurnKey, Telluride’s Latitude 38, and...

Vacasa Buys Turnkey—Finally

Vacasa, the largest vacation rental management platform in North America, announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire TurnKey Vacation Rentals, a leading...

Rent Responsibly Announces Five Founding Partnerships to Bring Alliance-Building and Advocacy Tools to More Vacation Rental Markets

Rent Responsibly, a community-building platform for local vacation rental alliances, announced today the launch of five new partnerships across the industry. Expedia Group, Breezeway,...
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Creating a Digital Marketing Ecosystem To Drive More Revenue

If it’s possible to find a silver lining in the cloud that was 2020, the resilience of the vacation rental industry might be it....

Lessons from the Auto Industry’s History Provide a Road Map for Regulatory Success in Short-Term Rentals

Growing up, we assumed the automobile has always been considered as American as apple pie. Then we looked a bit closer at the history...

Ben Edwards: The Game Has Changed, and It’s Time to Focus on the Money

Take everything you know about the vacation rental industry and throw it out the window. What’s up is down, and what’s down is up....

Operations Technology is Critical for Vacation Rental Managers in 2021 by Jeremy Gall

As we enter 2021, it has become clear that vacation rentals are the preferred lodging for those looking to spend time away from home....

VRM Careerists: Cort Roussel

  Four seasoned VR pros share how they have survived and thrived in the industry.  In this series of VRM Careerists, VRM Intel is diving into...

VRM Careerists: Kelly Keys Wilson

  Four seasoned VR pros share how they have survived and thrived in the industry.  In this series of VRM Careerists, VRM Intel is diving into...

VRM Careerists: Ryan Christopher

  Four seasoned VR pros share how they have survived and thrived in the industry.  In this series of VRM Careerists, VRM Intel is continuing to...
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VRM Careerists: Kathleen Holmes

  Four seasoned VR pros share how they have survived and thrived in the industry.  If there is one universal truth about vacation rental managers, it’s...

Takeaways from Airbnb’s First Earnings Call as a Publicly Traded Company

Yesterday, Airbnb held its first earnings call as a publicly traded company following the release of its Q4-2020 financials. For vacation rental managers listing...

Streamline Increases Software Prices for Some, Leading to Larger Questions Around Tech Strategies for VRMCs

Over the last two weeks, VRM Intel has received several reports that Streamline Vacation Rental Software is notifying some of its vacation rental management...

Disaster and Business Continuity Planning in 2021

  "Hurricane Dorian formed on August 24, 2019, from a tropical wave in the Central Atlantic and gradually strengthened into a hurricane on August 28....

Vacation Rental Managers Maneuver Adjacent Growth: Carolina Retreats, Southern Vacation Rentals & Meredith Lodging

Everyone wants a thriving business. How do you get to increased profits and increased market share? The most intuitive way is to expand your...

The Challenge of Insufficient Inventory Supply in the Vacation Rental Industry

When COVID-19-related restrictions were lifted, and travel resumed on May 20, 2020, (which was also the day my daughter was born, so I remember...

21 Jump Seat: Passenger or Pilot?

2021 Will Be the Year That Managers Stop Being Passengers and Start Piloting Their Own Marketing Futures The story of the past decade in vacation...
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Resort Collection Outsources Call Center to Jamaica

Jamalo’s welcoming voice on the other end of the telephone brightened the cold January day. I was doing research about Resort Collection in Panama...

Getaway Society Founders Are a Dynamic Duo

As with constructing their first six-bedroom, three-bath custom home in the Pennsylvania Poconos, entrepreneurs Carrington Carter and Calvin Butts, Jr. leveraged every tool in...

Marketers: Too Soon to Plan for 2022?

In the vacation rental industry, 2020 was a story of haves and have-nots. For leisure vacation destinations with strong drive-to markets, short periods of...

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