This is a big weekend for vacation rentals. HomeAway.com is running an ad in the Super Bowl! This will introduce vacation rentals to millions of North Americans and put vacation rentals in the travel accommodation mainstream. My website SlowEurope.com gives you the tools you need to find and book vacation rentals in Europe, but I [...]

Nico and Elena Pannevis run the Sant’Antonio Country Resort, an estate  outside of Montepulciano, in Tuscany.
Thirteen vacation rentals (villas, cottages, apartments) and six languages (Italian, English, Swahili, Dutch, German, French) on an idyllic olive growing estate that started life in the 12th century as a Monastery.
The estate has large gardens (with over a kilometer of [...]

updated January 29, 2010
HomeAway, the Austin TX based company who owns most of the major Rent-by-Owner websites (HomeAway.com, VRBO.com, VacationRentals.com, etc.*) will have an ad in the 2010 Super Bowl!
Finally, vacation rentals will be on the scoreboard!
The ad features Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo reviving their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold in the 1983 [...]

Germany was once the dividing line between Western and Eastern Europe, but now sits at the heart of the new Europe.
November 2009 is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. When East Germany was reunified, five new regions in the north-east became part of Germany.
We have added German vacation rentals to Slow Europe. [...]

For this month’s profile we talked to Alice Tetelman and Martin Wenick of Italian Vacation Villas.

I made a list of Europe vacation rentals owners, agency owners and rent-by-owner and home exchange websites who are on Twitter.
Article on Slow Europe – Follow European Vacation Rental Owners on Twitter
Twitter is a micro-blogging service where you post and read “tweets” of 140 characters or less. Learn more about vacation rentals in Europe by [...]

Home Base Holidays is a home exchange website based in London.

About vacation rentals in France.

“Get a great deal on a vacation rental” and “Tips for choosing a vacation rental”, by Laura Bly, March 19 2009.

Interview with Gayle Roberts of Riviera Pebbles.