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Government announces rental law reform in Scotland
Reading Time: 2 minutesScotland: The Scottish government today announced its intention to place a comprehensive set of regulations on the short-term lets market in Scotland. Scottish housing minister Kevin Stewart noted: “We are empowering local authorities to implement a system that works for their area. By giving councils the power to set conditions around short-term lets licences and […]
TRACK PMS lands two more clients
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Two major hospitality companies, Village Realty and Retreatia/Great Western Lodging have announced their intention to use TravelNet Solutions’ TRACK program as their all in one property management software solution. The program will be used to help oversee the over 1500 combined properties between the two companies. TRACK hospitality software solution integrates a variety of […]
NextPax and VTrips partnership bears major fruit
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Channel manager NextPax and vacation rental property management company VTrips announced a 600 per cent growth in booking rates through the Booking.com platform since their partnership began in 2018. This is also matched by a 35 per cent growth in content scores of VTrips properties. Formerly known as Vacation Rental Pros, before rebranding in 2018, VTrips […]
Holiday property site Vaycaychella acquired by major investor
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: WSGF Inc. (World Series of Golf) recently announced the acquisition of holiday property technology website Vaycaychella, a prequel application to rental sites such as Airbnb and VRBO. Unlike other major applications, all of which connect renters with vacation property owners, the new site attempts to “empower people to become vacation property owners in the […]
Vanessa de Souza Lage shares her anticipation for the Shortyz 2020
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpain: Rentals United CMO and co-founder, Vanessa de Souza Lage, speaks to ShortTermRentalz at the Short Stay Summit in Barcelona about her anticipation for the first-ever Shortyz Awards on 11 March 2020. The nominations period has been extended until 23.59 GMT on 31 January 2020 and you can send all of your entries to shortyz@internationalhospitality.media.
Short Term Rentalz · STRz podcast 8: Vector Travel’s Mickey Kropf on the “reckoning” for business models
Reading Time: < 1 minuteShort Term Rentalz · STRz podcast 8: Vector Travel’s Mickey Kropf on the “reckoning” for business models
Airbnb to provide free housing for bushfire survivors
Reading Time: 2 minutesAustralia: Airbnb has stepped in to offer homes free of charge to those affected in New South Wales and Victoria following daily growth of the Australian bushfires. The company’s Open Homes initiative, started in response to Hurricane Sandy, is offering temporary relocation to those affected through a pair of online landing pages specific to the […]