Marriott is reportedly close to rolling out a new Airbnb-like service, according to the Wall Street Journal. https://t.co/09KEYdk48S

— CNN International (@cnni) April 29, 2019

Home sharing combined with my credit card rewards? Yes please!

“Marriott would allow home-rental guests to earn and redeem loyalty points as they do when booking a stay at any other Marriott property.” https://t.co/AEcrSkY9cx

— Mike Dudas (@mdudas) April 29, 2019

Total rooms listed through the first three months of 2019 (via @WSJ):

—Airbnb (4.92 million)**
—Marriott (1.29 million)
—HomeAway (1.16 million)**
—Hilton (910,000)
—Wyndham (790,000)

**counts represent total units and actual room counts could be higher https://t.co/2xTsVGSCDC

— J.R. Reed (@JRReed) April 29, 2019

Strip operatots have lost a bit of business to home rental. Will they lose a bit more as Marriott enters the segment?

“Marriott would allow home-rental guests to earn & redeem loyalty points as they do when booking a stay at any other Marriott property.” https://t.co/1vfqm3XeZa

— Todd Prince (@toddprincetv) April 29, 2019

Marriott would allow home-rental guests to earn and redeem loyalty points as they do when booking a stay at any other Marriott property. https://t.co/sGu8Vj90Of

— Brandon G. Donnelly (@donnelly_b) April 29, 2019

Remember when the major airlines tried to launch their own low cost carriers?

Remember the IBM-branded low cost PC Jr?

Remember the Chevette?

https://t.co/MmFt7q5YqT

— Farooq Butt (@fmbutt) April 29, 2019

Marriott would allow home-rental guests to earn and redeem loyalty points as they do when booking a stay at any other Marriott property. https://t.co/V0gIXkNgOu via @WSJ

— Scott D Berman (@berman_scott) April 29, 2019

Marriott is about to announce a 2,000-property home-sharing program — importantly, you can earn and redeem points when you use this Airbnb-type program. https://t.co/d6sLm9gmTa

— David Slotnick (@David_Slotnick) April 29, 2019

Home sharing combined with my credit card rewards? Yes please!

“Marriott would allow home-rental guests to earn and redeem loyalty points as they do when booking a stay at any other Marriott property.” https://t.co/AEcrSkY9cx

— Mike Dudas (@mdudas) April 29, 2019

New competition for Airbnb, Booking and HomeAway: https://t.co/nnrx8dwl3I

— Paul Brady (@p_brady) April 29, 2019

Watch this closely. Having many conversations with incumbents across wide spectrum of industries that are not sitting back watching their disruption but leaning in and leveraging position, scale, expertise and vast resources ftw. https://t.co/klznphOPHL

— Mark Silva (@marksilva) April 29, 2019

Marriott launched an Airbnb competitor. I called it. Five years ago. Glad to see this happening. https://t.co/I9DfzUKc01

— Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) April 29, 2019

Marriott is opening its loyalty program to include a luxury oriented Airbnb competitor https://t.co/alBM7rT886

— Bluegrass Capital (@BluegrassCap) April 29, 2019

Marriott launches new home-sharing platform in 100 countries. https://t.co/N8ph6OSnKt

— Dror Poleg (@drorpoleg) April 29, 2019

메리어트, Airbnb에 대응해 Homes & Villas 론칭. 전세계적으로 100개 이상 시장에 서비스 시작. 이는 지난 1년 동안 런던의 200개 홈 파일럿 프로그램 실시 후 이제 공식적으로 론칭하는 것. 기존 메리어트 본보이 고객, 2000개 이상 홈에 체류할 때 포인트 적립 가능. https://t.co/d5ReSYWGDu

— Wan Ki Choi (@wkchoi) April 29, 2019

If you can’t beat them join them? Marriott going after home rental market and Airbnb going after business travelers. Will be an interesting race to watch and another example of large incumbent defensively imitating new entrants biz model #sharingeconomy https://t.co/GaxbdFce7R

— Bhushan Sethi (@bhushansethi1) April 29, 2019

So Airbnb is getting involved in hotels, and $MAR is getting involved in the home rental market. #everybodyinthepoolhttps://t.co/jRgtrIKVBEhttps://t.co/wlEqi1WX3b

— Jon Sticha (@jonsticha) April 29, 2019

MyPOV: is there room for a #digitalduopoly in travel? Yes! Now fix that mobile app first! #DigitalTransformation@Marriott would allow home-rental guests to earn and redeem loyalty points as they do when booking a stay at any other Marriott property.

https://t.co/NlWDgeUIOk

— R “Ray” Wang (王瑞光) #SASGF Not at #DellTechWorld (@rwang0) April 29, 2019

"Last month, #Airbnb bought HotelTonight, a last-minute hotel booking company. Now, #Marriott is looking to take on Airbnb. According to The Wall Street Journal, Marriott could become the first major hotel company to offer home rentals." https://t.co/YyUVV4GdqU

— amber mac (@ambermac) April 29, 2019

Marriott is reportedly close to rolling out a new Airbnb-like service, according to the Wall Street Journal. https://t.co/weT62znHSE

— CNN International (@cnni) April 30, 2019

Marriott would allow home-rental guests to earn and redeem loyalty points as they do when booking a stay at any other Marriott property ⁦@WSJ⁩ https://t.co/M8LXQjBotl

— Albert M. Berriz (@AlbertMBerriz) April 30, 2019

Airbnb wants to look more like a traditional hotel.
Marriott wants to look more like Airbnb.
Stick to your lane, folks!https://t.co/98NceCfoJg pic.twitter.com/TuVQyyPr10

— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) April 29, 2019

For years Airbnb has had a competitive advantage against the #hotelindustry giants. Will this new strategy help Marriott regain market share? https://t.co/7TrOeKKLDG

— Spencer Brenneman (@SB_Branding) April 29, 2019

Marriott confirms its high-end home rental product in the U.S.https://t.co/4GtXjZnliV

— mrd (@meganrosedickey) April 30, 2019

“It gave Marriott the data it needed to pursue homesharing officially: It showed there is consumer demand for this type of product.” Very excited and curious to see ⁦@MarriottIntl⁩ enter the vacation rental world. Great alert by ⁦@deannating⁩ https://t.co/ZJvW1RYIOD

— Matt Landau (@themattlandau) April 29, 2019

Marriott Is Officially Getting Into the Homesharing Business https://t.co/PNcklUVM9x

— Carmelo Cennamo (@CarmeloCennamo) April 29, 2019

Did you already hear the news?! Marriott is officially getting into the #homesharing business with the launch of Homes & Villas by Marriott International next week. Read all about it here:https://t.co/O0KWcMnF2s #news #shorttermrental

— NoiseAware (@NoiseAwareDotIO) April 29, 2019

‘Marriott Is Getting Into the Homesharing Business’ https://t.co/UHypfkLDVn /via @jowyang /cc @share_NL @sharingcity #sharingeconomy #digitaleconomy #holidayrental

— Harmen van Sprang (@harmenvs) April 29, 2019

Marriott Is Officially Getting Into the #Homesharing Business: https://t.co/Xu2nauUCwA via @skift pic.twitter.com/UfxjcBcpua

— Dave Michels (@DaveMichels) April 29, 2019

Watch out AirBNB.$MAR coming for you. I choose $MAR over every single hotel brand. https://t.co/pOz8qKr4rG

— Cody [Be Brave] (@OddStockTrader) April 29, 2019

Marriott realized that AirBnb was eating its lunch and is now getting into the home rental biz. Meanwhile AirBnB has gotten into coordinating unused hotel space. #convergence https://t.co/WVsvioMJys

— Ted Hudek (@tedhudek) April 29, 2019

Airbnb beware: Marriott reportedly launching its own home-rental service https://t.co/9aOmMqiXgX pic.twitter.com/m02jFw5uRj

— Rich Tehrani (@rtehrani) April 29, 2019

Love staying @MarriottBonvoy whenever I travel. I'm interested to see how this works out - Marriott plans to launch home-rental market platform that would compete with Airbnb, report says https://t.co/KaICJCC4tz @CNBC

— Nick Rishwain, JD (@expertsdotcomvp) April 29, 2019

Marriott plans to launch a home-rental platform aimed at competing with Airbnb.https://t.co/qbCpkSCYO3

— Nadine El-Bawab (@nadineelbawab) April 29, 2019