HomeAway
| HomeAway.com, Inc.
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| legal form | Inc. |
| founding | 2005 |
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Austin , Texas , Texas , United States
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| Branch | Tourism |
| Website | HomeAway.com |
HomeAway, Inc. , is a vacation rental broker who claims to have more than one million vacation rentals in 190 countries. The corporation under US law is a subsidiary of Expedia and has 40 websites in 22 languages (as of December 31, 2014). The company advertises with a global selection of different accommodations - cabins, private apartments and houses, from farms to villas and castles of various hotels for families and groups.
The German offshoot is called FeWo-direkt.de .
history
In 2005 HomeAway began taking over various providers, whose offers and websites the company centralized while retaining the domains. Since then, user-friendliness has steadily decreased, especially for landlords, and is now far behind on Trustpilot with a TrustScore of 0.4 in the last place in the "Travel & Vacation" category.
The following websites are connected to HomeAway:
| Purchase date | website | Seat |
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| 2005 | CyberRentals.com | United States |
| 2005 | GreatRentals.com | United States |
| 2005 | A1Vacations.com | United States |
| 2005 | TripHomes.com | United States |
| 2005 | HomeAway.co.uk | United Kingdom |
| 2005 | FeWo-direkt.de | Germany |
| 2006 | VRBO.com | United States |
| 2007 | Abritel.fr | France |
| 2007 | VacationRentals.com | United States |
| 2007 | OwnersDirect.co.uk | United Kingdom |
| 2009 | Homelidays.com | France |
| 2010 | HomeAway.it | Italy |
| 2010 | BedandBreakfast.com | United States |
| 2010 | AlugueTemporada.com.br | Brazil |
| 2010 | Instant software | United States |
| 2010 | Escapia | United States |
| 2011 | RealHolidays.com.au | Australia |
| 2012 | Toprural.com | Spain |
| 2013 | Travel mob | Singapore |
| 2013 | Stayz Australia | Australia |
| 2013 | Bookabach.co.nz | New Zealand |
| 2014 | Glad to Have You, Inc. | United States |
| 2015 | Dwellable | United States |
Individual evidence
- ↑ HomeAway, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2014 Financial Results . Archived from the original on September 2, 2014.
- ↑ About HomeAway .
- ↑ Why This Could Be HomeAway's Breakout Quarter . Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ↑ Priceline Could Get Bigger In Vacation Rentals By Acquiring HomeAway .
- ↑ HomeAway.com listings for cabins, condos, castles, villas, barns and farmhouses .
- ^ Austin Business Journal. "Live the destination: Local company launches vacation rental website" , Austin Business Journal , June 7th of 2006.
- ↑ https://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/vrbo.html
- ↑ https://de.trustpilot.com/review/www.fewo-direkt.de
- ^ Austin Business Journal. "Vacation rental site lands $ 160M, buys competitor" , Austin Business Journal November 13, 2006.
- ^ Austin Business Journal. "Home Away buys French website" , Austin Business Journal January 22, 2007.
- ^ Austin Business Journal. "Home Away Continues buying spree" , Austin Business Journal May 14, 2007.
- ^ Austin Business Journal. "Home Away Continues buying streak with UK-based acquisition" , Austin Business Journal October 2, 2007.
- ^ Austin Business Journal. "HomeAway picks up Homelidays SAS of Paris" , Austin Business Journal February 4, 2009.
- ^ Travel Weekly. "HomeAway buys B&B website" , Jerry Limone March 3, 2010.
- ^ TechCrunch. "Home Away Expands To South America With Purchase Of Brazilian counterpart" , Robin Wauters March 9, 2010.
- ^ "HomeAway Acquires Largest Vacation Rental Management Software Provider — Instant Software, Inc."
- ↑ * HomeAway
- ^ TechCrunch. "Home Away Broadens Presence In Australia With Acquisition Of Vacation Rental Site Real Holidays" , Leena Rao 4 April 2011.
- ↑ TheNextWeb. "HomeAway acquires Spain's rural tourism site Toprural in all-cash deal" , The Next Web April 2, 2012.
- ^ TechCrunch. "HomeAway Buys Singapore Startup Travelmob To Enter Asia-Pacific" , Victoria Ho July 17, 2013.
- ↑ Market Watch. HomeAway Acquires Australia's Leading Vacation Rental Group, Stayz , December 4, 2013.
- ^ Company Information . Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ^ Glad to Have You, Inc .: Private Company Information - Businessweek . Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ↑ HomeAway buys vacation rental startup Dwellable, plans to shutter service and move team to Austin (en-US) . In: GeekWire , October 7, 2015.