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Sonder trims portfolio and announces $10m financing
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Short-term rental apartment management company Sonder has announced significant reduction in its portfolio and a $10 million financing to “improve the company’s unrestricted liquidity”.
Data and AI: Addressing key questions and tracking their potential
Reading Time: 6 minutesUS: STRz looks at the key questions that were raised and addressed at the 2024 Skift Data & AI Summit and NYU International Hotel Investment Conference in New York City.
Trustr launches recommendations-based STR marketplace
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Trustr has launched a “first-of-its-kind” vacation rental marketplace that is designed to enable property owners and renters that know each other to book and share recommendations for listings that they own, or have vetted and stayed at themselves.
Whimstay adds 33k+ listings to expand to Mexico
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS / Mexico: Last-minute vacation rental booking deals platform Whimstay has announced a significant expansion into Mexico, adding over 33,000 listings to its platform.
Moving Mountains expands offering into luxury yacht charters
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Luxury hospitality brand Moving Mountains is growing its service offering by launching a new division for premium yacht charters.
Peerspace hires Yuann as new CEO
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Peerspace, a marketplace for hourly venue rentals for meetings, productions and events, has announced that it has hired Kevin Yuann as its new CEO.
Airbnb and ChargePoint partner for seamless EV charging
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Airbnb has partnered with ChargePoint, a provider of networked charging solutions for electric vehicles [EVs], to meet a growing demand for EV charging from guests at Airbnb listings in the United States.
Sentral expands management portfolio in two new markets
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Full-building residential hospitality operator Sentral has announced an expansion of its portfolio into two new markets with management contracts at The Sutton in Portland, Oregon and Otonomus Hotel in Las Vegas.
Short Stay Summit 2024: Dharma CEO Toivo Halvorsen
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Toivo Halvorsen, CEO of Losjitech and Dharma Hospitality Solutions, speaks to STRz at the 2024 Short Stay Summit at Old Billingsgate in London.
Brown resigns as VRMA board chair
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Dru Brown, the board chair of the Vacation Rental Management Association [VRMA], has resigned from his position with immediate effect.