Gendall Design hosts ‘speed dating’ holiday cottages event
UK: Falmouth-based Gendall Design hosted 20 of the UK’s top independent holiday cottage letting agencies and four leading booking software providers at a “revolutionary” event for the holiday cottage industry in the Cotswolds. The travel and destination design brand welcomed booking providers including SuperControl, iPro Software, Anytime Booking and Rentivo to the event earlier this […]
Orinda City Council prohibits non-hosted rentals
California: Orinda City Council has approved an emergency outright ordinance which prohibits ‘non-hosted’ rentals and placed new restrictions on ‘hosted’ venues. It comes three weeks after five people were shot and killed at a short-term rental property advertised on Airbnb in the city on the outskirts of San Francisco, which turned into a one-night ‘party […]
Oxford Economics releases housing affordability crisis report
US: Research firm Oxford Economics has released its latest in-depth report highlighting the extent to which short-term rentals are leading to the housing affordability crisis facing American communities. The deep dive analysis covered more than 2,500 counties over a four-year period leading up to 2018 and included model extensions on urban areas and vacation destination […]
MakeMyTrip to increase rental footprint in India
US / India: Online travel aggregator MakeMyTrip [MMT] is set to grow its short-term rental footprint in India as it plans to add more than 10,000 villas, private properties and apartments in the next 12 months. According to a Mint report, company executives are seeking to compete with Airbnb, Indian travel aggregators and startups, including […]