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I'd personally love a travel site that aggregates Airbnb & VRBO & Hotels. Listing everything a city has to offer on a single site could be a real differentiato

I'd personally love a travel site that aggregates Airbnb & VRBO & Hotels. Listing everything a city has to offer on a single site could be a real differentiator to sites like Kayak.

timjahn 13y ago
That would be awesome. Especially when you're going to markets that aren't that big and have a ton of Airbnb's and whatnot. It'd be great to have one place list the entire realm of places to stay.
- ianmchenry 13y ago
  Hipmunk does this with Airbnb listings: http://www.hipmunk.com/hotels-search http://www.hipmunk.com/hotels-search
aj37 13y ago
I believe that's what these guys are trying to do http://alltherooms.com/ http://alltherooms.com/
blazeit 13y ago
Best one out there IMO: https://outpost.travel https://outpost.travel They aggregate a huge chunk of them.
orrinxu 13y ago
i've used these guys before. Seems pretty good https://outpost.travel/ https://outpost.travel/
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jenoneal 13y ago
We do this! Check out http://www.tripping.com/ http://www.tripping.com/ Tripping is the top metasearch site for vacation rentals with over 1 million homes worldwide. We also have the richest data set in the industry, so it'll be fun to see how our data compares with BeyondStays.
- NickSharp 13y ago
  Tripping is great! Two thumbs up.
  - jenoneal 13y ago
    Thanks Nick!
calbear81 13y ago
We've explored integrating other property types on Room77.com in addition to our hotel metasearch but there are some things we encountered that we need to work through first: - Hotel metasearch is a real-time pricing and booking option. VRBO and AirBnB by and large are lead generation based so you don't have real time availability on a majority of the properties. This means that a lot of the listings may already be booked and you wouldn't know until you contact the owner. - Location accuracy is a challenge. Home owners don't want to provide exact addresses due to privacy reasons so for a lot of properties, owners have chosen to provide an "approximate" location which leads to a lot of properties in a neighborhood sharing the same exact lat/long and a lot of stacked pins or clusters on a map. For reference, here's a general idea of the number of property types: 300,000+ hotels, 550,000+ vacation homes, 300,000+ airbnb listings (lots of cross listing with vacation rental sites for sure), 50,000+ hostels = ~1M properties bookable after deduplication.

I'd personally love a travel site that aggregates Airbnb & VRBO & Hotels. Listing everything a city has to offer on a single site could be a real differentiator to sites like Kayak.

timjahn 13y ago

That would be awesome. Especially when you're going to markets that aren't that big and have a ton of Airbnb's and whatnot. It'd be great to have one place list the entire realm of places to stay.

ianmchenry 13y ago
Hipmunk does this with Airbnb listings: http://www.hipmunk.com/hotels-search http://www.hipmunk.com/hotels-search

aj37 13y ago

I believe that's what these guys are trying to do http://alltherooms.com/ http://alltherooms.com/

blazeit 13y ago

Best one out there IMO: https://outpost.travel https://outpost.travel They aggregate a huge chunk of them.

orrinxu 13y ago

i've used these guys before. Seems pretty good https://outpost.travel/ https://outpost.travel/

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jenoneal 13y ago

We do this! Check out http://www.tripping.com/ http://www.tripping.com/ Tripping is the top metasearch site for vacation rentals with over 1 million homes worldwide. We also have the richest data set in the industry, so it'll be fun to see how our data compares with BeyondStays.

NickSharp 13y ago
Tripping is great! Two thumbs up.
- jenoneal 13y ago
  Thanks Nick!

calbear81 13y ago

We've explored integrating other property types on Room77.com in addition to our hotel metasearch but there are some things we encountered that we need to work through first: - Hotel metasearch is a real-time pricing and booking option. VRBO and AirBnB by and large are lead generation based so you don't have real time availability on a majority of the properties. This means that a lot of the listings may already be booked and you wouldn't know until you contact the owner. - Location accuracy is a challenge. Home owners don't want to provide exact addresses due to privacy reasons so for a lot of properties, owners have chosen to provide an "approximate" location which leads to a lot of properties in a neighborhood sharing the same exact lat/long and a lot of stacked pins or clusters on a map. For reference, here's a general idea of the number of property types: 300,000+ hotels, 550,000+ vacation homes, 300,000+ airbnb listings (lots of cross listing with vacation rental sites for sure), 50,000+ hostels = ~1M properties bookable after deduplication.