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TripAdvisor Acquires Holiday Lettings

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

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TripAdvisor, the world’s leading travel website and an operating company of Expedia, Inc., today announced it has acquired one of the United Kingdom’s largest independent holiday home website, holidaylettings.co.uk.

holidaylettings.co.uk acquired by Tripadvisor

holidaylettings.co.uk acquired by Tripadvisor

The acquisition demonstrates TripAdvisor’s continued expansion into the holiday home marketplace, following the launch of vacation rentals on TripAdvisor in 2009, and the purchase of a majority stake in U.S.-based FlipKey.com in 2008. Holidaylettings.co.uk will continue to be operated as an independent site. Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed. (more…)

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Holiday Lettings introduces video display

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

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Holiday home owners who advertise their accommodation through holidaylettings.co.uk can now showcase their properties full potential by including a video of their holiday home.

Video section on listing

Video section on listing

Introduced to provide a richer sense of the holiday experience that can be expected when staying at the advertised holiday home, videos are available on Premium Adverts, the site’s most successful advertising option. (more…)

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Holidaylettings.co.uk reports strong 2009 results

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Rightmove plc, owner of UK leading holiday home website holidaylettings.co.uk, released their FY 2009 financial results.

Holidaylettings.co.uk logo

Holidaylettings.co.uk logo

The holidaylettings.co.uk segment increased revenues by 46% to GBP 5.5m (USD 3.6m) y-o-y. Operating profit more than doubled from GBP 0.9m to GBP 2.0m (USD 1.4m).

Holidaylettings.co.uk financials 2009 (excerpt)

Holidaylettings.co.uk financials 2009 (excerpt)

Membership of rental owners increased by 24% to 35,150 properties.

2009 membership figures

2009 membership figures

Rightmove’s shares closed at 635 pence (+6%) at an 12 months high.

Rightmove 12 months share price development

Rightmove 12 months share price development

Links to the financial presentation: http://miranda.hemscott.com/ir/rmv/pdf/Prelims_Presentation_2009_final.pdf

Links to the financial financial statements: http://miranda.hemscott.com/ir/rmv/pdf/Final_2009_results_announcement.pdf

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Holidaylettings.co.uk with a minor facelift

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

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UK’s leading holiday home website Holidaylettings.co.uk has recently undertaken some little facelift of its website design. The extent of the redesign, however, was kept to a minimum:

 

new look of holidaylettings.co.uk

new look of holidaylettings.co.uk

 

old look of holidaylettings.co.uk

old look of holidaylettings.co.uk

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