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UAE holiday rental cancellations surge amid Middle East tensions
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUAE: Holiday rental cancellations in the United Arab Emirates more than doubled at the end of February as rising tensions in the Middle East disrupted travel across the region.
Holidu integrates bestfewo.de to strengthen position in Germany
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGermany: Munich-based vacation rental platform Holidu is integrating bestfewo.de into its network, expanding its host base in Germany as consolidation accelerates across the European short-term rental market.
Albuquerque city council votes down short-term rental regulations
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: An Albuquerque, New Mexico city council bill implementing a 100-foot buffer zone between future short-term rentals was voted down by five votes to four Monday.
TravelAI acquires OwnerDirect.com
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS/Canada: Vancouver-based travel technology company TravelAI has acquired vacation rental brand OwnerDirect.com, including all associated intellectual property, trademarks and domain names. Owner Direct, first established in 1987, is one of North America’s longest-running whole-home vacation rental brands. The company said the acquisition would support its strategy to expand traffic acquisition across Canada and the United […]
AI is overwhelming hosts, PriceLabs report finds
Reading Time: 2 minutesGlobal: Dynamic pricing and revenue management solution provider PriceLabs has published its Global Host Report 2025, revealing that while technology and AI adoption among short-term rental hosts is increasing, many are still struggling to see meaningful operational benefits. Based on responses from more than 1,400 hosts with one to four listings, the report finds that only […]
Interhome launches new B2C website on HomeToGo’s core platform
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGermany/Switzerland: HomeToGo and Interhome have launched Interhome’s new B2C website, marking the successful migration of the brand onto HomeToGo’s core technology platform just two months after the acquisition closed. The rebuild covered 18 localised domains and more than 65,000 landing pages, all completed with 100% uptime and customer accounts fully preserved. HomeToGo has additionally taken […]
Hipcamp partners with Sun Outdoors to add 100 RV resorts to its platform
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Camping marketplace Hipcamp has formed a new partnership with Sun Outdoors, adding 100 RV resorts including more than 20 Jellystone Parks to its US inventory. Hipcamp has announced a strategic partnership with Sun Outdoors that will bring 100 of the operator’s RV resorts and campgrounds to the Hipcamp platform. The agreement expands Hipcamp’s offering […]
Expedia Group on Vrbo’s evolution and what rising traveller expectations mean for the industry
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast month, Expedia Group announced a series of updates to the Vrbo platform, including broader exposure for Vrbo listings across the company’s brand. This includes visibility on its flagship Expedia brand as well as through a B2B distribution network of more than 70,000 businesses and 160,000 travel agents. With these changes designed to improve discoverability, […]
Flataway.ai launches AI website builder
Reading Time: 2 minutesBulgaria: Traveltech startup Flataway.ai has launched Staycy, an AI-powered website builder designed to help professional vacation rental managers create high-converting, direct-booking sites in minutes. The launch follows an $800,000 pre-seed funding round led by Eleven Ventures and Angel Invest, with participation from several angel investors and the company’s founders, who previously sold one of Europe’s […]
Arbio raises $36m Series A to build AI-native rental platform
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGermany: Berlin-based startup Arbio has raised $36 million in a Series A funding round led by Eurazeo, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $45 million. Other backers include OpenOcean, Atlantic Labs, and angel investors Philipp Freise and Justin Reizes (KKR), Johannes Reck and Tao Tao (GetYourGuide), and Din Bisevac (Buena). Arbio describes itself […]