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Rental marketplace Anyplace expands into Europe
Reading Time: 2 minutesEurope: B2C marketplace Anyplace, where travellers book furnished accommodations on a flexible monthly basis, is expanding in Europe following a $2.5m seed round led by the founders of HotelTonight, Airbnb and Booking.com. The furnished housing rental firm has seen its first listings in London go live this week and it has its eyes firmly set […]
OYO Vacation Homes discloses hiring strategy in Europe
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEurope: Vacation rental company OYO Vacation Homes has announced it will recruit a minimum of 1000 additional employees across Europe by the start of next year. The news follows OYO’s announcement last week that it was committing to invest up to 300 million euros into its vacation rental home business to increase its expanding European […]
Interhome releases holiday homes trends report
Reading Time: 3 minutesLondon: Holiday home provider Interhome has released its latest report, which highlights a trend in UK and Irish travellers booking higher quality resort properties. The survey covers the 2018/19 winter season and forecasts this year’s summer season, based on its current pan-European sales data. Interhome revealed sales from the winter season (1 November 2018 to […]
Veeve, Europe’s largest vacation rental management agency, launches in LA
Reading Time: 2 minutesLos Angeles: Veeve, the largest vacation rental management agency in Europe, has launched in Los Angeles, seven years after its founding in London. When Veeve was launched back in 2011, it provided a welcome market solution for the ever-growing demand in the luxury home sharing sector. Since then, the company has grown across the continent […]
RedAwning Collection brings in 20,000 European homes with Belvilla integration
Reading Time: 2 minutesEurope: RedAwning.com has announced it has fully integrated with Belvilla, a leading online specialist in European self-catering vacation rentals. The integration means that more than 20,000 homes in Austria, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal will be added to RedAwning’s collection of instantly bookable vacation properties, bringing the RedAwning Collection to 140,000 properties around the world. […]
Marriott International expands European home-sharing pilot
Reading Time: 2 minutesEurope: Marriott International has announced the expansion of its home-sharing pilot to include Paris, Rome and Lisbon in addition to London. From 2 October, travellers can choose from more than 340 properties across four European markets with the opportunity to earn and redeem points across Marriott’s award-winning loyalty platform, including Marriott Rewards and Starwood Preferred […]
Airbnb competitor Wimdu to close by the end of this year
Reading Time: 2 minutesEurope: Wimdu, Europe’s most well-funded clone of Airbnb, is to close by the end of the year owing to ‘significant financial and business challenges’. Partners of the company were informed by the message on Thursday, nine years after Wimdu was founded and labelled as the ‘Airbnb killer’. The news means that Wimdu will have to […]
Exceptional Villas inspected record numbers of luxury rentals this year
Reading Time: 2 minutesEurope: European-based rental experts Exceptional Villas have inspected and vetted record numbers of properties this year ahead of the 2018/19 winter getaway season. The company, which is viewed by many as a global authority in the high-end rental market, carried out inspection procedures at over 800 properties this year as it added to their growing […]
Website allows tourists to find cannabis-themed vacation rental accommodation
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: A cannabis-themed vacation rental platform allows tourists to search for accommodation around the world which will let them smoke marijuana. Budandbreakfast.com proclaims itself to be the “largest collection of marijuana-friendly hotels and other cannabis-friendly rentals anywhere on the web.” It said it is “designed to make guests feel right at home as each of […]