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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,...

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...
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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...

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...

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...
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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...

Fast Growth at Homes & Villas by Marriott International

Senior Director Travis Riner Shares Insight into Objectives, Growth, and Future Plans Marriott International jumped headfirst into the vacation rental industry in May 2019 with...

Expedia CEO Talks Vrbo: We ‘Removed Vrbo from Google’s Vacation Rental Meta Product’

During today’s Expedia Group earnings call, CEO Peter Kern and CFO Eric Hart told its investors that Vrbo provided a bright spot for the...

Technology in 2021 and Beyond: Vacation Rental Tech Leaders Predict the Future

The vacation rental industry has witnessed a significant evolution in technology over the last five years. With every property management system that goes to...

Founder of Newly Launched Kaiser Vacation Rentals Says, “Things Will Be Different … This Time”

In an exclusive interview with VRM Intel Magazine, Glen Kaiser announced today that he and his brother, Leonard Kaiser, are founding partners of Kaiser...

Rented joins Vacation Rental Women’s Summit as Presenting Sponsor

With gratitude, we're excited to announce that our friends at Rented are joining VRM Intel as presenting sponsors for the upcoming 2021 Vacation Rental...
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Rented Launches New Automated Rate Tool for Vacation Rental Professionals

Rented, a widely-used revenue management partner for vacation rental professionals, today announced the launch of Art, an Automated Rate Tool that helps property managers...

Vrbo Is Performing Better Than Airbnb for Vacation Rental Managers, But Direct Booking Still Number One Revenue Source . . . By A Lot

Is Airbnb the top booking source for vacation rental managers? Not by a long shot. Looking at $2.4 billion in 2020 rental revenue received by...

4th Annual #BookDirect Guest Education Day Is February 3, 2021

The Fourth Annual #BookDirect Guest Education Day, recurring on the first Wednesday in February, is coming soon. On February 3, 2021, short-term and vacation...

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