Whois & Analysis for tripping.com

Tripping.com is an online search engine and aggregator for vacation rentals.

It aggregates over 10 million listings in more than 150,000 cities worldwide.

It is based in San Francisco, California.

Tripping.com partners with and displays listings from booking websites including Booking.com, HomeAway, VRBO, FlipKey, Housetrip, Roomorama, Booking.com, Interhome, Novasol, Wimdu, ZenRentals, Bedycasa, WayToStay, Gloveler, HolidayVelvet, 9flats, AlwaysOnVacation, RedAwning, and Housetrip.

Users can search by price, ratings, location and a long list of features and amenities.

A vacation rental is the renting out of a furnished apartment, house, or professionally managed resort-condominium complex on a temporary basis to tourists as an alternative to a hotel.

The term vacation rental is mainly used in the US.

In Europe the term villa rental or villa holiday is preferred for rentals of detached houses in warm climates.

Other terms used are self-catering rentals, holiday homes, holiday lets (in the United Kingdom), cottage holidays (for rentals of smaller accommodation in rural locations) and gites (in rural locations in France).

An apartment (in American and Canadian English) or a flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, correctly, on a single level without a stair.

Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment complex, flat complex, block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent.

In Scotland it is called a block of flats or, if it's a traditional sandstone building, a tenement, which has a pejorative connotation elsewhere.

Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier, by leasehold tenure or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure).

A condominium, usually shortened to condo, is a type of real estate divided into several units that are each separately owned, surrounded by common areas jointly owned.

A holiday cottage, holiday home, or vacation property is accommodation used for holiday vacations.

Such properties are typically small homes, such as cottages, that vacationers can rent and run as if it were their own home for the duration of their stay.

The properties may be owned by those using them for a vacation, in which case the term second home applies; or may be rented out to holidaymakers through an agency.