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Average Length of Stay for Vacation Rentals Remains Largely Unchanged Over Last 3 Years

Experts have been telling us for years that vacation rental guests are taking shorter vacations and that the average length of stay is shrinking....

Predicting a recession? Historically, vacation rentals in domestic leisure destinations perform well during recession periods

While no one wishes for a recession, it is hard to ignore multiple predictions that one is coming. As we look at travel sectors...

VRM Intel Live! coming to Destin, January 23, 2020

VRM Intel Live! is coming to Sandestin's Baytowne Wharf Conference Center, January 23, 2020, with 20 educational sessions and workshops for professional vacation rental...

18 Months in Review: A Look at Actual ADR, Occupancy, Length of Stay, and Booking Window Across Key Vacation Rental Markets

While the concept has taken time to catch on, vacation rental managers and DMOs are beginning to value and utilize comparative data platforms that...

Expedia’s stock tanks as company looks to bypass Google and increase direct bookings on Vrbo

Expedia’s stock is down 26 percent today after the company posted Q3 2019 results showing underperformance. According to Bloomberg, Vrbo posted another decline in...

Matt Landau’s “The Vacation Rental Show” spans continents and makes the jump to primetime TV in Middle East and North Africa

Last year, Matt Landau partnered with Booking.com to produce he second season of the web series, The Vacation Rental Show, in which Landau travels...

VRMA breaks ties with LSI Tools as comparative data provider for vacation rental manager members

Days ahead of the Vacation Rental Management Association (VRMA) International Conference—and with data and revenue management at the forefront of discussions—the industry's trade association...
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Catching up with the FOCKers. Latest from OTA leaders: Fogel, Okerstrom, Chesky, and Kaufer

Over the last several years, four CEOs have led online travel agencies (OTAs) in feeding the top of the consumer funnel for alternative accommodations...

Beyond Pricing Raises $42.5M to Expand Pricing Tool Technology for Vacation Rental Managers

Beyond Pricing, the vacation rental industry's largest provider of revenue management tools, announced today that it has raised $42.5 million to execute on a...

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...

North Carolina’s Ocracoke and Hatteras Islands take brunt of US impact from Hurricane Dorian

Vacation rental managers from Miami northward up the Atlantic Coast to Delaware worked to prepare for slow-moving Hurricane Dorian. However, few believed that North...

A Basic Primer on Short-term Rentals with a Cheat Sheet and Checklist of Considerations for City Officials

An increasing number of municipalities are looking for the best way to regulate short-term rental regulations, and elected officials are understandably confused about how...

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...

2019 Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference Photos and Videos

The first Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference is in the books, and we wanted to share some photos from the event along...
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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...

Vacasa CEO Eric Breon Discusses Plans to Purchase Wyndham VR for $162M

Vacasa and Wyndham Destinations announced today that they have entered into an agreement under which Vacasa will purchase Wyndham Vacation Rentals for approximately $162...

Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference to be held in Atlanta, August 6-7

Update: We just added a few more seats to the previously sold out inaugural Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference at the Atlanta...

Summer 2019: Vacation Rental Performance in NC, SC, AL and FL Panhandle

Average Daily Rates Are Up, But Overall Occupancy Rates Are Down At VRM Intel, we have been a long-time strong advocate for comparative data in...

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,...
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First Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference to be held in Atlanta, August 6-7

With the creation of comparative data and pricing tools, the science of revenue management for the vacation rental industry is quickly evolving and has...

UK’s Sykes Holiday Cottages Acquires Major Stake in New Zealand’s Bachcare

UK holiday rental firm Sykes Holiday Cottages acquired a major stake in Bachcare, New Zealand’s largest vacation rental management company. Since 2003, Bachcare has been...

Industry Veteran Michelle Marquis joins Lexicon Travel as Chief Revenue Officer

Lexicon Travel has added vacation rental industry veteran Michelle Marquis to its leadership team as Chief Revenue Officer. Lexicon is a channel management and...

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