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OTA big guns on what the future holds for their businesses

By Kerry Medina | November 14, 2017

Wall Street analysts weren’t the only ones to weigh in on Expedia Inc. and Priceline Group’s stock prices during the recent Phocuswright Conference in Fort Lauderdale. Glenn Fogel and Mark Okerstro Read More

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Trivago goes home with HomeAway inventory

By Marisa Garcia | November 7, 2017

The vacation rental market is again attracting attention with this week trivago announcing the integration of Expedia’s HomeAway vacation rental inventory into its hotel search platform. Johannes T Read More

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Expedia Inc Q3s home in on HomeAway

By Martin Cowen | October 27, 2017

HomeAway has been given an noticeably higher profile in parent company Expedia Inc's latest earnings release, with bosses talking in terms of its "ecommerce transition" adding that it is also "growing Read More

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Airbnb: Friend or foe to the tours and activities industry?

By Stephen Joyce | September 13, 2017

Airbnb, alongside other vacation rental services, has been elbowing into the tourism world for years. Until recently, it was seen as a hotel problem. Accommodations were at risk as Airbnb steadily Read More

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HomeAway links up with Rakuten

By Martin Cowen | July 7, 2017

Expedia Inc's HomeAway has signed a partnership with ecommerce giant Rakuten as the home rentals sector in Japan bursts into life. HomeAway will start selling inventory from "Rakuten Lifull Stay", Read More

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Startup Pitch: Hostfully puts service in the pocket of private accommodation users

By Kevin May | June 20, 2017

Hostfully is another of the brands to emerge in a bid to benefit from the widening ecosystem around private accommodation. The service produces guides for a guest at a property, on behalf of the ho Read More

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Airbnb claims 40% of listings are now instantly bookable

By Kevin May | June 14, 2017

Airbnb has taken another step in the direction of its rivals in the vacation rental sector, with what it claims are milestones on booking and technology. For all its popularity and the apparent tec Read More

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HomeAway and Airbnb home in on Japan

By Martin Cowen | June 8, 2017

Japan is emerging as the latest front in the vacation rental/home-sharing battle, with HomeAway and Airbnb taking advantage of an improved regulatory environment. Expedia Inc's HomeAway, which says Read More

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How hotels can compete in the new accommodation economy

By Viewpoints | June 5, 2017

We all know the message that Airbnb is supposedly beating the hotel sector in a number of ways. While the hotel industry is experiencing strong growth since the downturn of the economy, alternative Read More

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Hitting the mainstream - nothing alternative about alternative accommodation now

By Kevin May | May 22, 2017

It suited the industry vernacular for a long time to pigeon hole everything that wasn't a hotel into the term "alternative accommodation". Long before the emergence of Airbnb and even HomeAway, bra Read More

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HomeAway quietly introduces $1 million liability insurance

By Kevin May | May 16, 2017

Vacation rental giant HomeAway has started rolling out an insurance programme - the first time it has taken responsibility for the connections it makes between guests and homeowners. The $1 Million Read More

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Expedia boosted by HomeAway performance in first financials of 2017

By Kevin May | April 28, 2017

Expedia Inc has bumped its revenue up by 15% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2017 to $2.2 billion across the group. The best performing business units within the company, in terms of revenue g Read More

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The power of packages for hotels

By Sponsored Content | April 19, 2017

Hotels currently have a variety of ways to sell rooms. The halcyon days of basing distribution strategy around the simplistic "direct" and "third-party" options are long gone. Merchant model or net Read More

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HundredRooms lands €4 million to push into new markets

By Kevin May | March 27, 2017

Vacation rental search engine HundredRooms has brought its total funding €11 million, with its eyes set on launching in more countries. The €4 million round was led by Seaya Ventures and featured p Read More

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Instant meta booking milestone - Tripping hits 3M rentals

By Kevin May | March 9, 2017

Who says the drive to instant bookings on search engines can be hard (well, TripAdvisor, for starters) - in vacation rentals it appears to be working out very well. Vacation rental marketplace Trip Read More

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