Expedia Group is dropping its HomeAway platform for trip leases. As an alternative, the net journey firm is focusing its rental enterprise on the same Vrbo model.
Beginning subsequent month, those that go to the HomeAway web site might be redirected to the Vrbo website, and customers of the HomeAway cell app will obtain a notification to obtain the Vrbo app.
In accordance with a press launch, there is not going to be any modifications to HomeAway reservations which have already been booked, and customers’ login particulars for Vrbo will stay the identical as no matter they have been for HomeAway.
So when you’ve got a HomeAway rental reserved in upcoming weeks, it’s best to nonetheless be good to go along with no additional actions required in your half. HomeAway UK will stay in operation for British clients.
Within the launch, Expedia describes the change as a solution to “simplify its trip rental model portfolio.”
That is sensible on condition that HomeAway and Vrbo haven’t any main variations between their choices and, as the discharge does not point out, Expedia has confronted monetary uncertainty, layoffs, and administration shake-ups in latest months due largely to stiff competitors from Google and Airbnb.
And that was earlier than the pandemic hit.
Vrbo, which was established in 1995 as VRBO (brief for Trip Leases By Proprietor), was acquired in 2006 by HomeAway. The latter was wolfed up in flip by Expedia in 2015.
Expedia launched the refreshed Vrbo final yr. The model now covers properties in 15 international locations.
