Best Holiday Rentals Listings Sites Survey 2011

COHR recently conducted a survey of Holiday Rentals Owners to find which Holiday Rentals Listings Sites gave them the most bookings in 2011.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the bigger sites came out best in the survey.

Owners voted Homeaway as the best site overall, with 19% of Holiday Rentals Owners saying it gave them the most bookings. VRBO was only just behind with 18% of Owners saying they received most bookings on the VRBO site. Flipkey was third with 14%, a strong finish for a site that it definitely emerging as a major player in the Holiday Rentals by Owner industry.

Given the consolidation that has been going on in the Holiday Rentals marketplace, it is perhaps no surprise that 5 of the top 9 sites are owned by the Homeaway group. These are Homeaway, VRBO, Homelidays, Ownersdirect and Vacationrentals.

There were also two sites owned by Tripadvisor in the top nine i.e. Flipkey and Holidaylettings.

Among Free Holiday Rentals Listing Sites, Vacationrentals411 (18%) was the narrow winner over Adventurepads (17%). Vacationrentals411 was also the only free site to make the top nine overall sites.

(There were two sites that offer free trials that featured in the top nine: Flipkey and VacationHomeRentals .)

However, it was interesting to note that 26% of Holiday Rentals Owners said that they either don't use Free Holiday Rentals Listings sites or that they don't get any bookings from them.

You can find the full survey results on All Holiday Rentals Best Holiday Rentals Listing Sites Survey 2011 .

The WVR Group, Homeaway, VBRO, Ownersdirect and More

The WVR Group continue to add to it's portfolio of Vacation Rental by Owner sites, with the list of sites now running to at least 14 different sites. One of the latest additions is Ownersdirect , a long established UK based vbro site.

It's hard to keep track of exactly how many vacation rentals properties WVR now has signed up on the various sites, but they are clearly seeking to dominate the industry. WVR has raised a lot of money and is betting that this will pay back as the industry consolidates.

At one point it looked like the vacation rentals by owner industry might be a battle between WVR and VRBO, but when WVR acquired them, it effectively took out their biggest rival. The acquisition of VacationRentals VacationRentals followed and now the WVR is way bigger than any of it's rivals.

For a full list of the WVR Group sites, visit the WVR Group page on Compare Owner Holiday Rentals.