Tripadvisor informed its vacation rental guests and hosts around the world that reservations with check-in dates on or after November 1 will be cancelled, and guests will receive full refunds.
These abrupt cancellations, though, do not spell the end of vacation rentals for Tripadvisor.
A Tripadvisor spokesperson told Skift Tuesday that Tripadvisor vacation rentals “have transitioned to a new business model that leverages third party providers, in line with our hotels offering.”
Hopper is among Tripadvisor’s hotel providers, and recently partnered with Tripadvisor on instant bookings within the Tripadvisor app. However, the Tripadvisor spokesperson said there are no plans to use Hopper for vacation rentals.
The presumed closure of at least some of Tripadvisor’s global vacation rental brands, including Holiday Lettings, FlipKey, and Niumba, which together had of hundreds of thousands of homes, could mean Tripadvisor layoffs, though the Tripadvisor spokesperson declined…
