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HomeAway’s Boss Still Isn’t Impressed by TripAdvisor’s Vacation Rentals

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: A vacation rental in South Walton Florida.  Flickr / Christy Bright

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How much emphasis will TripAdvisor really give to vacation rentals in the short term. It is already preoccupied with hotel metasearch and now restaurants. Can it do vacation rentals really well at the same time?

HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples says TripAdvisor's 640,000 vacation rental listings is an "impressive" number, but it hasn't amounted to much so far in the real world. "You know, Trip doesn’t seem to still be having much of a competitive impact on HomeAway, in particular, because this is a marketplace business where you need both supply and demand," Sharples told financial analysts during HomeAway's second qua

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