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Barefoot Provides a Foundation of Trust

Every year around this time, we think about how to position Barefoot in the vacation rental management software market for the upcoming year. With...

VRM Intel Live! is heading to Gatlinburg, Feb 26, with advanced-level education and discussion for vacation rental managers

Vacation rental professionals are heading to Tennessee in a few weeks for VRM Intel Live! Gatlinburg. The conference will be held on Wednesday, February...

Vacasa names interim CEO as founder Eric Breon steps down

Vacasa announced today it  has appointed Matt Roberts, former OpenTable CEO and independent Vacasa board director, as interim chief executive officer. This appointment follows...

GSV-led technology rollup in vacation rental industry rebrands and names new leadership team

This week, Knoxville-based Greater Sum Ventures (GSV) announced to its Vacation Brands and Property Brands teams that it has combined its short-term and long-term...

Vacation Rental Software Advisory Group (VSAG) Addresses Technology Needs for Enterprise-Level Property Management Companies

Recently, dozens of large vacation rental managers and technology providers gathered before the second day of the Data and Revenue Management Conference for an...

Takeaways from the 2019 Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference

Last week’s inaugural Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference provided a giant first step for the industry in utilizing comparative data, discussing optimal...

HomeAway Software Consolidates Software Systems: Migrating V12 and YesBookIt Users to Escapia

This week, HomeAway Software announced to its property management (PM) software clients that it plans to migrate users to one common system, as the...
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TurnKey Vacation Rentals raises $48M and looks to package and sell its technology to vacation homeowners and small property managers

TurnKey Vacation Rentals announced today it has secured $48 million in funding, bringing the total amount of capital raised to date to $120 million....

GSV’s “Vacation Brands” Acquires Majority Stake in iTrip, Going Head to Head with Property Management Companies

Yesterday, iTrip executives announced to employees that a majority stake in the company has been acquired by Vacation Brands, the private equity funded vacation...

GSV initiates technology rollup in the vacation rental industry, including LiveRez, Streamline, VRM, Bluetent, and more.

Tennessee-based private equity firm Greater Sum Ventures (GSV)—partnering with Insight Venture Partners—has been steadily rolling up large technology companies in the vacation rental industry,...

8 Most Surprising Vacation Rental Industry Developments in 2018

2018 was a whirlwind for those of us who cover the vacation rental industry. The pace of news about funding, acquisitions, regulation changes, and...

Airbnb Addresses Professional Vacation Rental Managers: “PMs are an indispensable part of Airbnb’s success.”

Airbnb wants professional property management companies to know its aim is to work more closely with the professionally managed community. Below is a message...

Properly Raises $8.5M for Housekeeping and Inspection Tech Platform for Airbnb Hosts

2018's third quarter already has been packed with venture capital and private equity funding news. In the latest of a series of announcements, San Francisco-based Properly,...

Streamline Raises Funding and Acquires Bizcor

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HomeAway Software is Getting Out of the Website-Building Business: Will Shut Down Escapia Web Services in May 2019

HomeAway Software has been providing and maintaining websites for hundreds of professional property management companies who use its market-leading Escapia software platform since purchasing the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

NAVIS Welcomes New VP of Engineering to Leadership Team

Kishore Bhattacharjee to bring more groundbreaking solutions to hotel and vacation rental clients NAVIS, the leader in reservation sales and marketing technology for hotels, resorts...
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Why You Can’t Afford a Data Breach—And What You Can Do to Avoid It

Last November, the ride-sharing service Uber announced that it had suffered a data breach in 2016. (It then made the mistake of paying the...

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...

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