Short-Term Rental and Vacation Rental News

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky talks beds, bots and better travel experiences, and that’s just the beginning, as it eyes new businesses and AI expansions. 

Adding vacation rentals to Expedia Group's B2B partner network is progress, but it's amazing that it took so long when you consider how mainstream these properties have become.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company needs to expand more into experiences, hotels, and the international market if it’s going to get the growth rate back up.

In addition to launching a new Airbnb Services business, the company's new strategy is to lean heavily into social media advertising.

Booking thinks its future agentic AI experience would be able to out-personalize the ChatGPTs and Geminis. Maybe that's so. But the LLMs will have a helluva lot of customer data, as well.

Airbnb's Brian Chesky said the emergence of native AI apps — there currently aren't any in travel — changes the ballgame, and the company can consider entering new businesses that it previously thought were off limits.

India’s alternative accommodations sector is booming on the back of rising demand, new opportunities, and government support. The next big challenge? Bringing order and consistency to a still fragmented market.

At an infinitesimal fraction of the scale, an Inspirato-Buyerlink reverse merger, with both entities controlled and operated by Payam Zamani, would be something akin to Musk's Tesla going out and making a deal to acquire his AI startup xAI. Neither would be a good look.

Both Vrbo and Airbnb have been removing listings and taking other actions against malicious hosts or those who are clueless about hospitality. Vrbo's new policy should be seen in that context.

The investment helps UnderTheDoormat Group build out its technology to support institutional real estate and branded residences.