Articles tagged “vacation rentals”

It's a merger of equals, for strength, scale and growth.

Airbnb's Host Clubs don't solely exist to enlist in local regulatory campaigns. But in the past, the company's public policy team has been heavily involved in their operations, and will be in the future.

Booking.com and Airbnb are raiding each other's territories. With their different roots, Booking.com needs to grow short-term rentals in the U.S. while Airbnb seeks to expand in Europe and elsewhere internationally.

No one truly knows how generative AI will shake up the travel industry. Will Google stick with advertising instead of booking? Meanwhile, Booking feels it has advantages as a booking site.

When a hotel rate appears in Google Search or on an online platform will it include the junk fee that makes it more expensive than a rival? That's what's a stake in these bills for the travel industry.

The proposed legislation uses the carrot and stick approach to secure long-term housing from short-term rentals.

The French Senate has greenlit measures to apply value-added tax (VAT) to Airbnb and similar platforms, aiming to address perceived competition imbalances with the hotel sector. 

Choice Hotels doesn't consider private equity entrants as competition, but as potential collaborators.

Every rebranding is an opportunity to communicate a company's identity to its partners and customers. Joivy is no different.

Sonder's latest strategy: focus on hotels