Oasis CEO: Expect More Consolidation, Disruption From Alternative Accommodations
Photo Caption: Oasis CEO Parker Stanberry said his company is pursuing a growth strategy fueled by strategic investments and carefully curated services for both guests and homeowners. Oasis
Skift Take
Will Oasis and other alternative accommodations players' arguably steadier, slower, and more curated approaches to scale pay off in the long term? Or will the speed and scale of bigger players like Airbnb win out in the end?
Have alternative accommodations reached a saturation point at which they're no longer considered "alternative"?
While that's certainly up for debate, it's also clear that this particular part of the lodging business, while still relatively young, is beginning to mature and to evolve.
Giants like Airbnb are branching out into other tangential businesses like tours and activities and, perhaps, even flights. Major companies like AccorHotels are investing in home sharing and vacation rental businesses themselves, buying onefinestay and soon, Travel Keys, a luxury vacation rental platform.
And if you speak to Parker Stanberry, CEO of Oasis (formerly known as Oasis Collections), we should expect to see much more consolidation going forward.
"There will be some consolidation," Stanberry told Skift. "We bought a couple of smaller local players. We bought a company in Buenos Aires three years ago. We bought a company in Sao Paulo six months ago. These were strong, I'd say, local ver
