RedAwning and Affirm partner for buy now pay later scheme
US: Short-term rental hospitality platform RedAwning has partnered with payment startup Affirm to introduce a new “easy payment” scheme. Guests will now have the option to make a booking for a rental property now and pay over a period of time. By partnering with Affirm, which provides instalment loans for tech consumers, the company hopes to […]
Expedia Group draws up plans for new round of layoffs
US: Expedia Group looks to be heading towards another layoff round, as Travel Partners Group CEO Cyril Ranque announced further redundancies within the company. The company laid off 12 per cent of its workforce earlier this year before the pandemic, in an attempt to manage a “bloated and sclerotic” workforce. Travel Partners Group is a […]
TurnKey Vacation Rentals and THIRDHOME announce collaboration
US: Luxury property and travel club, THIRDHOME, has announced a strategic collaboration with Austin-based vacation rental management company TurnKey Vacation Rentals. The partnership will extend the services and perks to select TurnKey clients while also increasing THIRDHOME’s inventory, resulting in more luxury home-stay options throughout the United States. THIRDHOME is primarily a home exchange club that […]
Join Vrbo, OYO, Maison Privee and TurnKey VR for fourth RockSTRz webinar
Worldwide: The “RockSTR” contributors for the fourth and final session of this RockSTRz webinar series for ShortTermRentalz on Tuesday 27 October 2020 at 4pm GMT have been announced. The stellar lineup of industry experts joining host and editor of ShortTermRentalz, Paul Stevens, for the session on “Around the world in 60 mins: What has the […]
Booking.com partners with Futurestay for online check-ins
US: Booking.com has partnered with cloud-based vacation rental management solution Futurestay to provide online check-in options for the latter’s partner properties booked through the platform, as a way of allaying customer concerns in the wake of Covid-19. According to Philip Kennard, founder and CEO of Futurestay, the two companies began their automated check-in venture late last year due […]