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Tansler Raises $1.3M for Vacation Rental “Reverse-Auction” Site

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Tansler announces $1.3 million in additional funding and wins General Catalyst Award for Travel Innovation and The Most Innovative Emerging Company at the Phocuswright...
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Is it Time to Change that Property Management System? Changing Technology Providers: What You Need to Know 

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By Doug Macnaught, The VRM Consultants & TomK, The VRM Consultants --Companies have a variety of reasons why they decide to change Property Management...
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LiveRez hits milestone with 1,000th software customer

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Eagle, ID – LiveRez.com announced today the addition of its 1,000th customer. “This is a historic day at LiveRez,” said LiveRez CEO Tracy Lotz. “Our strength...
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HomeAway adds “Traveler Fee” for guests to pricing model

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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...
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Why Airbnb chose LiveRez over the rest for software integration

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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...
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Crystal Balling the Industry’s Technology Glut

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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...
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NAVIS Launches New Narrowcast Vacation Rental Edition

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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...
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Link to Booking.com using LeisureLink/HomeAway Software Integration

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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...
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HomeAway acquires Dwellable, moves team to Austin

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By John Cook, --Dwellable has found a new home. The Seattle vacation rental startup — founded three years ago by developersNathan Kriege and Adam...
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Data Security Failure at VacationRentPayment

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Payment services provider YapStone (VacationRentPayment) sent out a letter last month notifying property managers and owners who had applied for merchant accounts through HomeAway...
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Bill Furlong Promoted at HomeAway to VP North American Business

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HomeAway announced the promotion of Bill Furlong to vice president of the North American business and Matt Laessig to vice president of global business...
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Potential Yapstone/ VacationRentPayment Hack on HomeAway?

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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...
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Online Travel Sites Battle For Short-Term Rental Market Share

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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...
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Barefoot, Airbnb and BookingPal Talk to NC Property Managers

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Barefoot recently announced that their customers can list their inventory on Airbnb through either of their two partners, Leisurelink or BookingPal. In a seminar...
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Priceline CEO: “Moving into Vacation Rentals”

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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...
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Inside Airbnb’s Algorithm

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By Dan Hill, Product Lead, Airbnb -- How much should you charge someone to live in your house? Or how much would you pay...
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Part 3: TripAdvisor Issues: Where is TripAdvisor Heading With Vacation Rentals?

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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...
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Part 4: TripAdvisor Issues: TripAdvisor Responds to Issues While Vacation Rental Managers Rally to Address Concerns

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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,...
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Part 2 -TripAdvisor Issues: “Reviewing TripAdvisor Vacation Rentals”

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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...
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Part 1: TripAdvisor Issues – “What’s going on with FlipKey/TripAdvisor?” (Pt 1 of 4)

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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...
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9 Key Takeaways from HomeAway’s Q2 Earnings Call

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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...
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Editorial: Owner Service Providers in the Sharing Economy

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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...
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PMT Launches RateChaser™

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Property Manager Tools (PMT) – the originator, and still the leader, in automated quote response technology with SmartResponse™ – has launched the next generation...
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Kayak to display HomeAway listings

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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...
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