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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...

Unbundling the Property Manager

Property managers (PMs) traditionally provide a wide range of activities, including design and listing preparation, competitive benchmarking, pricing advice, marketing, distribution, guest screening and...

Millennials and Technology

How VRMs Can Embrace Change and Ride Both to Success Millennials, people between the ages of 18 and 34, are currently America’s largest generation, numbering...

Bluetent acquires Visual Data Systems

Today Bluetent, the vacation rental industry’s largest provider of website development and online marketing services, announced it has acquired Visual Data Systems (VDS) for an...

Airbnb enhances API and creates proactive communications for vacation rental software developers

Today, Airbnb is taking yet another step to make it easier for professional vacation rental managers to add their entire inventory of supply to...

Booking.com VP Olivier Grémillon on Fees, Market Growth, and Future

Booking Holdings-owned Booking.com has been fascinating to watch as it has emerged as a leader in vacation rentals over the last four years. The...

Guesty Appoints Vered Raviv Schwarz as Chief Operating Officer

All-in-one short-term rental software Guesty welcomes Vered Raviv Schwarz as its new chief operating officer to oversee the company’s global operations from its Tel...
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HomeAway’s Jeff Hurst Discusses Industry Growth, Technology, and HomeAway’s Business Model

HomeAway remains the undeniable leader in delivering third-party revenue for core vacation markets in the United States. Expedia’s purchase of the company in late...

Xplorie Grows Sales and Marketing Teams as Company Expands

Xplorie has hired Debi Steigerwald as its new vice president of marketing. Steigerwald previously served as the director of marketing operations for Vacasa and director of...

Lodgify Raises $5 Million

Barcelona-based vacation rental software provider Lodgify announced today that it has secured a $5 million round of Series A funding, bringing total funding to $7.3 million to date. Participants of...

Cool Down Your Summer Season with These Cost-Saving Smart Home Solutions

As the vacation rental summer season heats up, so do many of the costs paid by owners and management companies. But before you have...

Guesty Integrations Provide Smart Home Solutions for Short-Term Property Rentals

Guesty announces direct integrations with Slickspaces and VirtualKEY, enabling smart home automation including keyless entry, smart workflow and thermostat regulation - expanding the integration marketplace for professional property...

PMS + CRM = ROI

Why do people settle for mediocrity? Why do people tend to take the path of least resistance? I suppose it could be a matter...

The Uber-ization of Everything

How Local Governments View the Sharing Economy I signed up for my first email address barely twenty-five years ago. It’s wild to imagine. The internet...
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Millennials and Technology: How VRMs Can Embrace Change and Ride Both to Success

Millennials, people between the ages of 18 and 34, are currently America’s largest generation, numbering 75.4 million and rising, passing baby boomers at 74.9...

LiveRez Launches Integration with NextPax that will Enable Connections with Hundreds of Vacation Rental Listing Sites

The new feature will add connections to Booking.com, HomeAway, VRBO and hundreds more, in addition to LiveRez’s direct connection to Airbnb. Eagle, ID – LiveRez, a worldwide...

How Amazon, Google, and Apple Will Revolutionize Vacation Rentals

Adoption of voice-enabled smart speakers with artificial intelligence (AI) assistants have seen a rapid increase in popularity. Led by Amazon and Google, according to...

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...

Key Data Dashboard Raises $2.4M

Key Data Dashboard, formerly known as VRM Dashboard, a leading developer of data visualization and comparison software for vacation rental managers, today announced a...

Converging Verticals: From Serviced Apartments to Short-term Rentals

For travelers, investors, and online marketplaces, the lines are blurring that divide extended stay hotels, apartment hotels (apartotels), condo hotels (condotels), corporate housing, serviced...
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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,...

Vacation rental technology startup competition set for March 9 in London at Millennium Hotel Mayfair

The vacation rental industry is innovating quickly to accommodate the growing demand for private homes as accommodations alternatives and to apply newly available technology to...

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...

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