Last fall, my wife and I used TripAdvisor to find a rental condo for a trip to Manila. We chose one that looked excellent in the photos and were directed to FlipKey, which books TripAdvisor’s vacation ...

TripAdvisor/FlipKey's challenges with the vacation rental industry aren't only technical ones. They also reflect increased supply available from individual homeowners and apartment renters.

Flipkey will continue to try to differntiate itself through reliable user reviews and inbound traffic from TripAdvisor, but it will need to overcome its parent company's propensity to under-invest in ...

Here's a shocker of a travel headline: Florida is an exceptionally popular destination, especially in winter. The latest source to confirm this slice of travel conventional wisdom is vacation rental ...

Miami-Dade County is knocking hard on the doors of FlipKey and HomeAway in an attempt to collect untold millions of dollars in unpaid resort taxes. In two separate lawsuits filed in Miami-Dade Circuit ...

Greetings from Hotel Stuy Town! A trendy travel outfit is trying to lure tenants at Manhattan’s sprawling Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village with a deal that would convert their apartments into ...

Hanging well out of reach, buttercup-yellow mangos tantalized me everyday from the tree outside my rental home on the island of Vieques. Most mornings, I happily managed to score one or two ripe ones ...