Faye, a travel protection platform, has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by venture capital firm Madrona, with participation from BRM, Portage, F2 Venture Capital, Viola Ventures, and Lumir …
Guesty, a property management platform, argues that most AI tools in the industry only draft suggestions and wait for approval, failing to scale operations. The company has launched a suite of AI agen…
Hostaway has appointed Robert Goldenberg as chief financial officer, Janis Rozenblats as chief product officer, and Darcy Kurtz as chief marketing officer to support its international expansion and in…
A six-month analysis by HostBuddy AI, using market data from IntelliHost and KeyData, found that its users generally outperformed local comparables on both review scores and average daily rate (ADR). …
Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin said artificial intelligence presents a growth opportunity rather than a threat to online travel agencies, despite the company acknowledging agentic AI as a competitive …
Vrbo, the Expedia Group-owned vacation rental platform, is using generative AI alongside first-party booking and search data to create localised summer travel marketing campaigns tailored to regional …
PriceLabs launched a mobile app, an MCP AI Connector for AI tools like Claude, and an upgraded Customer API, enabling short-term rental operators to manage pricing and revenue from anywhere, via natur…
Affitti Brevi Italia, a short-term rental operator managing over 1,000 apartments in Italy, has partnered with Aeve AI to automate routine guest messaging while maintaining service standards. The AI s…
Hostaway, a vacation rental software provider based in Finland, launched AI CoHost, an artificial intelligence assistant that helps property managers analyze business performance, identify growth oppo…
Revenue management platform Beyond launched AI-powered tools including Listing Lens for Airbnb listing optimization and a beta MCP server for AI integrations. The company reported its AI pricing assis…
Guest support platform Host & Guest Fix+ founder Daniel Bell explains how short-term rental hosts can use AI to create host-approved troubleshooting guides, reducing out-of-hours interruptions. The AI…
Conduit, an AI-powered hospitality technology company, launched a platform to automate daily operations for hotels, serviced apartments, and short-term rentals. The platform includes pre-built AI agen…