Jon Gray Touts Growth of RV Lifestyle, RVshare Community – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
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“I’d like to believe that I’ve spent my career making travel more accessible,” Jon Gray, CEO of RVshare, told Karen Webster in the most recent “Matchmakers” installment, a video interview series by pymnts.com.
From his vantage point at RVshare’s helm for half a decade and at VRBO (formerly HomeAway) for more than decade prior to that, Gray remarked that there’s a similarity between the firms:
At the most fundamental level, VRBO/HomeAway and RVshare both exist as peer-to-peer sharing economy marketplaces, where existing, owned assets (a home, an RV) can be turned into a secondary source of income.
A decade into its existence, RVshare operates as the largest RV rental site in the United States, facilitating more than 127 million miles rented and 4 million nights booked with an installed base of more than 100,000 RVs.
The marketplace model, he said, sits in the middle of supply and demand, removing friction from this segment of the sharing economy.
“We want to make this as easy as booking a rental car,” said Gray of RV rentals, “or booking a hotel room.”
An ecosystem has developed, and still is being developed, with the RV as an integral component, giving rise to a community that extends beyond the marketplace.
“There’s been a tremendous amount of public and private money that has gone into developing campgrounds, to enhancing national and state parks and building infrastructure for outdoor travel,” said Gray. The rise of remote work and Zoom calls, he added, has made it easier to work from anywhere — even the great outdoors.
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