Australia: Fully-integrated payment system RMS Pay has broke the €1 billion mark in transactions just over a year since launching.

Short-term rental company GuestReady acquired Lightbooking this week, increasing its portfolio on the Canary Islands.

Europe: After October’s launch of integrated travel apps through OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the leading LLM has partnered again with.

Turkey: The Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TÜRSAB) has filed a lawsuit seeking an access ban on 10 foreign travel ...

Governor Josh Green has claimed that the State will move 10,000 homes from the vacation rental market to long-term housing ...

UK/Italy: Bob W has opened five new properties across London, Rome and Florence.

Spain: Lodgify has released its 2026 State of the Industry Report, providing an in-depth, data-driven look at US vacation ...

UK: Sykes Holiday Cottages has reported that bookings made in January are up nine per cent year-on-year, signalling strong ...

US: AirDNA, the provider of short-term rental data and analytics, has released its annual Best Places to Invest in Short-Term Rentals report, identifying the US markets offering the strongest ...

UK: Cornwall-based holiday lettings company Finest Retreats has launched a proprietary operations app designed to support ...

US: Property management software provider Hospitable has launched an automated trip insurance upsell. Read STRz for more.

A recent Key Data report shows that rental market has entered 2026 with softer early demand. Read on for more.