Reading Time: 2 minutesEurope: Camper van and motorhome rental agencies, Yescapa and Goboony, have announced a merger and parallel fundraising of €7 million to grow their footprint in Europe and expand into new international markets.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMalaysia: The Penang State Government has announced that it is cracking down on short-term rentals on the island with immediate effect, three months after introducing a partial ban on rental operations.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: Crypto-based property marketplace Everlodge [ELDG], which enables users to fractionally invest in vacation homes, is targeting disrupting the vacation rental industry in the year ahead.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Flexible living brand Gravity Co has partnered with the NHS to house overseas staff coming to work in the UK.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAustria: The Austrian capital city of Vienna is poised to introduce tighter short-term rental restrictions from next summer.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: A listing purporting to offer a stay aboard the UK Government’s controversial Bibby Stockholm barge for asylum seekers has been revealed as a hoax.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Velo Payments, a California-based payment service for banks, payment facilitators and payors, has announced that it will acquire short-term rental payment processing platform Yapstone.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Revenue management solution Beyond has announced the launch of Tally, a modern, ready-to-use payment processing solution specifically designed for the vacation rental industry.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEurope: According to short-term rental data provider AirDNA’s latest monthly review, European short-term rentals saw their strongest July on record, with more than 50 million nights stayed, and average rates and occupancy up.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Short-term rental data provider AirDNA’s latest monthly review of the US short-term rental market shows that July 2023 broke the record for the most short-term rental stays in one month, with 35.4 million nights stayed in the United States, beating last July’s previous high by 9.4 per cent.
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