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HomeAway Summit, Annual Educational Conference for Vacation Rental Owners and Professional Managers,

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HomeAway Summit, Annual Educational Conference for Vacation Rental Owners and Professional Managers, Coming to Scottsdale

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– HomeAway, Inc. (NAS: AWAY) , the world’s leading online marketplace of vacation rentals, will present HomeAway® Summit, the fourth annual educational conference for vacation rental owners and professional managers, at the Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa At Gainey Ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona on May 17-19, 2013.

HomeAway Summit is packed with group and one-on-one education opportunities on optimizing the operation and marketing of a vacation rental home. Vacation rental owners and professional managers of every experience level can expect a crash course in topics such as “Listing Performance: Improving Rank and Reach,” “Get Analytical: Improving Bookings Through Organization & Persistence” and interactive sessions from HomeAway staff on “HomeAway Payments and Online Booking,” and “Sneak Peeks: The Future of HomeAway.” A half-day social media workshop will also be held on May 17, one of the conference’s consistently popular attractions.

Vacation rental owner and Community.HomeAway.com blogger Michael Smith notes in his latest blog, “The HomeAway Summit is Great for ROI,” that he most benefitted from his three-time Summit attendance through networking with other home owners at the conference to share best practices, interacting with HomeAway staff and industry influencers and opening his business to the new trial products HomeAway offers exclusively to Summit attendees.

“Summit is always an exciting time for me. Interacting with our customers face-to-face is the best way to learn from them what HomeAway is doing well as a company, and how we can improve our service and our customers’ businesses,” says Brian Sharples, chief executive officer of HomeAway. “This is our first year holding Summit outside of our home city of Austin and I’m looking forward to expanding the conference.”

Registration automatically enters attendees into a drawing for a free HomeAway listing or free iPhone to be given away at the conference.

For Summit Agenda & Registration information visit: http://homeawaysummit.com

About HomeAway, Inc.

HomeAway, Inc., based in Austin, Texas, is the world’s leading online marketplace for the vacation rental industry, with sites representing over 711,000 paid listings of vacation rental homes in 171 countries. Through HomeAway, owners and property managers offer an extensive selection of vacation homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, including more room to relax and added privacy, for less than the cost of …read more

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HomeAway Forges Strong Relationship with Timeshare Industry through Three New Distribution Partnersh

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HomeAway Forges Strong Relationship with Timeshare Industry through Three New Distribution Partnerships

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– HomeAway, Inc. (NAS: AWAY) , the world’s leading online marketplace of vacation rentals, today announces a distribution partnership with three leading timeshare entities: Island One Resorts®, Welk Resorts and ResorTime.com®.

Timeshare units in the two resort companies and those listed on ResorTime.com, an online reservation service, will be advertised on HomeAway.com® to help rent vacant and unsold timeshare inventory as vacation rentals. The partnerships mark a strong synergy between HomeAway® and the timeshare industry to provide the most extensive offering of lodging options for travelers seeking vacation accommodations.

With timeshares booked about 79% of the year according to the American Resort Development Association‘s 2012 State of the Vacation Timeshare Industry research, HomeAway.comoffers the opportunity for resorts to close the gap on vacant and unused inventory.

“HomeAway is an excellent resource for timeshare resorts to provide another channel online to maximize the effort they put in to filling these properties,” says Brian Sharples, chief executive officer of HomeAway. “Growing our relationship with the timeshare industry is crucial in our efforts to provide travelers the most complete marketplace for vacation rentals.”

The partnerships include the following companies:

  • Island One Resorts offers over 1,100 timeshare units at its eight Florida resorts: Barefoot’n Resort, Bryan’s Spanish Cove, Liki Tiki Village, Orbit One Vacation Villas and Parkway International Resort in Orlando, The Cove on Ormond Beach, Charter Club Resort of Naples Bay; and Crescent Resort on South Beach.
  • Welk Resorts was founded by entertainment industry legend Lawrence Welk, is operated by his grandson, President Jon Fredricks, and operates more than 1,100 timeshare units in resorts located in Escondido and Palm Springs, Calif., Branson, Mo. and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
  • ResorTime.com is the timeshare industry’s leading nightly rental reservation site. Representing over two million room nights from hundreds of Timeshare Resorts around the U.S., Mexico and Canada, ResorTime.com provides a mutually beneficial distribution platform to drive higher rental performance for its resorts.

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