Today, as Expedia announced it is buying HomeAway for an estimated $3.9 billion, HomeAway also shook the vacation rental industry by announcing they are...
Airbnb met with 87 vacation rental software providers and chose LiveRez for integration. In this video, Airbnb Head of Vacation Rentals Shaun Stewart tells us...
The industry is being deluged with technology, some fueling next-gen VRM business models. This panel highlights hot new technology categories, while noting the staggering...
NAVIS announced the launch of NAVIS Narrowcast Vacation Rental Edition, a modular and scalable version of their award-winning reservation sales system designed to scale and...
LeisureLink™ was selected to be the preferred partner for HomeAway Software® for vacation rental listing distribution to Booking.com. The agreement leverages LeisureLink’s extensive online...
Payment services provider YapStone (VacationRentPayment) sent out a letter last month notifying property managers and owners who had applied for merchant accounts through HomeAway...
HomeAway announced the promotion of Bill Furlong to vice president of the North American business and Matt Laessig to vice president of global business...
Over the last two days, there have been several reports that home owners listing on HomeAway's sites received a letter from Yapstone (VacationRentPayment) informing...
By Investor's Business Daily --When Expedia (EXPE) bought Travelocity in November, the big-four U.S.-based global online travel companies became three. If Expedia's pending $1.3 billion...
Barefoot recently announced that their customers can list their inventory on Airbnb through either of their two partners, Leisurelink or BookingPal. In a seminar...
In this month's earnings call, Priceline CEO Darren Huston let investors know Priceline is actively making a strong push into vacation rentals in the...
For industry participants and analysts, it is difficult to understand why TripAdvisor is not leading the fast-growing vacation rental sector.
When TripAdvisor entered the vacation...
This series "TripAdvisor Issues" has been examining the problems vacation rental managers are facing with their listings on TripAdvisor Vacation Rentals/FlipKey (TAVR), rate parity,...
In “What’s Going on With TripAdvisor: Part 1” we discussed a sampling of the complaints vacation rental managers are reporting about TripAdvisor Vacation Rentals...
Throughout the second half of 2014 and into 2015, vacation rental managers have been reporting a multitude of issues with their listings on FlipKey/TripAdvisor.
From...
Today HomeAway reported on second quarter earnings:
Second quarter revenue of $125.8 million -up 19.5% versus a year ago
Second quarter listing revenue of $99.8 million...
The Important Role of Owner Service Providers in the Sharing Economy
Editorial by John Banczak, Co-founder and Chairman, TurnKey Vacation Rentals
It would be virtually impossible...
Property Manager Tools (PMT) – the originator, and still the leader, in automated quote response technology with SmartResponse™ – has launched the next generation...
Today HomeAway and Priceline-owned Kayak announced an agreement to display HomeAway's vacation rentals on Kayak's metaseach platform.
According to the press release, "Integration is expected to be...
Bluetent, the premier digital agency for the vacation rental industry, recently announced that it has acquired MyVRMS, the vacation rental software that automates responses...