HomeAway isn’t ready to jump into the peer-to-peer rental market, but is watching Airbnb and others to see how the sector shakes out.
Jetsetter begins offering vacation rentals with live booking
September 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
Jetsetter is expanding beyond its core hotel business into offering vacation homes with live availability and online booking.
TripAdvisor warns of potential liability from reviews and comments
August 2, 2011 By 21 Comments
It isn’t often that you get a lot of candor from TripAdvisor about the hazards of user-generated content, but parent company Expedia says TripAdvisor “faces potential liability” for content users post in reviews, blogs, comments and social media.
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HomeAway introducing preferential vacation rental listings and Facebook integration
July 27, 2011 By 4 Comments
HomeAway is in the process of rolling out tiered payments for listings for vacation rental owners, enabling them to pay higher fees to see their listings climb higher on the page.
Attention all startups: disrupting the travel industry is extremely hard
July 18, 2011 By 48 Comments
We talk endlessly about travel startups at Tnooz. Indeed, no publication has covered more travel startups, with over 200 new business profiles published on Tnooz TLabs.
HomeAway executes IPO and iStopOver finds room to acquire Vacapedia
June 29, 2011 By 3 Comments
A few hours after HomeAway priced its IPO and became a public company, there’s more activity today in the vacation-rental and rent-a-room market: iStopOver acquired Vacapedia.
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HomeAway dropped Beyond.com domain name idea for more earthly pursuits [video]
June 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
With HomeAway slated to go public as early as tomorrow, co-founders Brian Sharples and Carl Shepherd took to the social media airwaves to reminisce about the company’s origins and to mark the respective anniversaries of HomeAway (5th) and its VRBO unit (15th).
TravelStorm sends cancellation notice to vacation rental sites, claims HomeAway played hardball
May 6, 2011 By 3 Comments
TravelStorm, which hosts vacation rental sites owned by professional property managers, yesterday gave customers notice that it will cease operations June 4.
HomeAway gets sued and property managers caught in the middle
May 4, 2011 By 29 Comments
HomeAway got sued a couple of months after acquiring Instant Software and the dispute has left up to 70 to 80 professional management companies of vacation-rental properties hoping their websites don’t crash and scrambling to rebuild and redeploy them on new servers.
HomeAway and the real life Home and Away soap opera
April 6, 2011 By 2 Comments
We heard this week vacation rental market leader HomeAway was charging into the Australian market through the acquisition of Realholidays.
