HVN Wins Top Magellan Award for Best Overall Online Booking Interface

HVN Travel Group Inc., the professional marketplace for private home and villa rentals, has been awarded the top prize for best Overall Online Booking Interface at the 2022 Travel Weekly Magellan Awards. Hosted by the largest travel trade publication in North America, the annual Magellan Awards honor outstanding design, marketing, and services in the travel industry and salute the professionals behind it all. 

HVN – which connects professional trip designers with professionally-managed rentals in a market worth an estimated $150B a year – is one of the fastest growing private travel companies in the United States, recently surpassing 100,000 guest nights since its launch in 2019. HVN’s award-winning online booking portal offers over 175,000 private homes, apartments, suites, and villas around the world, collectively defining these one-of-a-kind stays as “havens” that bring together the best of hospitality and home.

Additionally, the portal features advanced technology tools designed to support the custom workflows, secure payments, and standards of care that professionals require, at scale. The HVN booking portal is currently available on an invitation-only basis, requiring at least one professional referral to join.  

Among the award recipients, HVN was the only home rental platform to win the prestigious Magellan Gold Award for online travel services. Other industry leaders recognized in this year’s Magellan Awards for outstanding innovation in travel include American Express Global Business Travel, Delta Air Lines, and Uplift.  

“We are honored to receive this recognition from the travel community, reflecting our commitment to empowering hospitality professionals around the short-term rental category,” said Jason Paez, Co-Founder & CEO of HVN Travel Group. “From our global discovery engine to our custom technology for designing, booking, and delivering one-of-a-kind stays, everything we build is in service of our mission to help everyone find their haven and feel at home in the world."

Travel Weekly has been curating the Magellan Awards since 2008. The coveted awards are judged by a one-of-a-kind panel of top professionals representing the best names and most accomplished leaders from the travel industry.

ABOUT TRAVEL WEEKLY

Travel Weekly is the most influential provider of news, research, opinion, and analysis to the North American travel trade marketplace. It reaches a broad industry audience in print, online, and with face-to-face events throughout the year. Travel Weekly is a division of Secaucus, New Jersey based Northstar Travel Media, the largest business-to-business travel publisher in the world. 

ABOUT HVN TRAVEL GROUP

HVN (pronounced "haven") is the leading technology platform for a new professional category of stay: havens bringing together the best of hospitality and home. With a growing collection of private havens worldwide, HVN is setting a new standard for residential stays that deliver the trusted quality, thoughtful design, and professional care required for the way we travel today.  Please contact media@stayhvn.com with any press inquiries.

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