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“Go to Airbnb, pick a niche and execute it 10x better”: When Airbnb’s party ban favors smart entrepreneurs.
On June 28, 2022, Airbnb turned its temporary global party ban into a permanent one. The ban was born from ...
How Hopper Homes plans to compete with Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia (2022 update)
Hopper, a fast-growing OTA, has launched Hopper Homes, its product and service offer for the vacation rental home market. Hopper ...
How Houfy is building a Book Direct OTA.
Houfy is not just an alternative to Airbnb. It wants to be an alternative to the overall OTA (online travel ...
StayBillety, the Airbnb alternative for sports events and affinity groups, is raising money
Companies that want to compete with Airbnb and other listing sites seek to tap into the unmet needs of specific ...
Mid and long-term stay specialist Spotahome: €25m funding, adapting to COVID, expanding to more markets, and what Airbnb & Booking can learn
On Rental Scale-Up, we often talk about the trend of short-term rental companies moving to long stays (e.g. Airbnb monthly ...
Plum Guide seeks $1.4m from crowdfunding investors, at $146m valuation
Plum Guide (plumguide.com), one of the leading luxury vacation rental distribution channels, has just launched a crowdfunding campaign. The London-based ...
HomeToGo’s Bryan Boice on the company’s US strategy
HomeToGo, a German-based vacation rental booking channel and meta-search engine, listed on the Frankfurt stock market on September 22, 2021. ...
What makes Gîtes de France and its network of 48,000 properties a powerful force within the French holiday rental market?
If you are French or a Western European traveller, you may have met the word “gîte” before. It is a ...
How to use content marketing to build authority and become an Airbnb alternative
How do you turn your listing site into a travel resource that hits multiple times each of the visitors in ...
Hometogo: $1bn value based on booking commissions and software revenues
As we announced last week, vacation rental marketplace Hometogo is supposed to go public via a planned €1.2 billion transaction. ...
Keep your vacation rental knowledge fresh
There is no doubt that the key to vacation rental mastery is knowledge. When we started Sea Zen and attained ...
