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...Hart, who during his time at Expedia worked on a number of acquisitions including of vacation rental service Vrbo and booking site Orbitz, declined to comment on any potential plans for a public offering...
...The vacation rental platform will allow staff to work from another country for 90 days at a time — or even longer in certain places, if they can secure their own work visa to do so....
...Workers I speak to say they chose Outsite as short-term rentals such as Airbnb were fully booked, too expensive or too remote....
...Expedia, which owns vacation home-rental site Vrbo, said bookings rose 117 per cent as it swung to a third-quarter profit....
...their first vacation in over a year....
...“We believe that our SEO results have been adversely affected by the launch of Google Travel and Google Vacation Rental Ads,” the filing read, “which reduce the prominence of our platform in organic search...
...“They are also buying second homes in vacation spots in their own country since they know travel will be disrupted for a while yet.”...
...“This may seem obvious, but it’s important to recognise that the vast majority of vacation rental markets are not in all-out panic mode.”...
...It also may be a warning sign consumers who are eschewing hotel rooms in favour of Airbnb and short-term vacation rentals are putting a strain on pricing....
...A push upmarket has been expected since Airbnb acquired Luxury Retreats, a Canadian vacation rental company, in 2017....
...Using them for Airbnb and other short-term rentals is also under consideration. A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 29 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc....
...The conflict escalated in 2014, when Barcelona put a moratorium on licences to offer short-term rentals....
...The marriage of technical and legal innovation at Uber in Québec has since been adopted by Airbnb, the vacation rental platform, and put forward by the province’s government as a preferred solution for companies...
...The company is also boosting its focus on premium and luxury accommodation, which follows its acquisition of the high-end vacation rental company Luxury Retreats last year....
...Launched in 2011, Tujia is one of China’s biggest apartment-sharing and vacation rental website and claims to host a total of 650,000 online listings across 345 domestic destinations and 1,037 international...
...Some technology companies also provide a rental subsidy to employees who choose to live close to corporate HQ....
...The names of the two companies have not been finalised as yet and Wyndham also said that it would explore options for its European rental brands....
...In recent years, Mr Khosrowshahi has made his mark with deals in the highly competitive sector, including Expedia’s $3.9bn acquisition of HomeAway, a home rental site that competes with Airbnb in vacation...
...Mr Khosrowshahi has tried an offensive: two years ago, he bought Home-Away, the US vacation rental company that includes VRBO, a popular home-sharing site....
...Its inventory of vacation rentals almost doubled in the past eight months to roughly 625,000, according to data from AllTheRooms, an accommodation search engine....
...Airbnb’s move will also raise the heat on high-end vacation home rentals sites such as London-based Onefinestay, which was acquired by Accor last year, and HomeAway, which is owned by Expedia....
...Vincent Wermus, the managing director of online vacation rental service HomeAway in France, said that the tighter laws governing online short-term home rental threatened to hold back the collaborative economy...
...rental service HomeAway....
...The largest company in the market, Tujia, recently bought Chinese travel services provider Ctrip’s vacation rental business, and acquired Mighty Talent, another holiday rental company, through a share swap...
...Hannah Williams, founder of Rental Raters, which helps British renters share information about landlords and properties, says: “Good properties go on Airbnb and are withdrawn from the rental market, leaving...
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