Aishwarya Iyer
Expedia’s 2026 Vrbo & Escapia Launch: 12 Features to Recapture Last-Minute Bookings and Package Rentals with Flights
TL;DR: Expedia’s 12-feature fall rollout spans two platforms: nine new tools for Vrbo and three for its property management software, Escapia. The update introduces same-day bookings, promotional offers, and the upcoming ability to bundle Vrbo stays into Expedia flight packages. Separately, as of September 15, 2026, Vrbo has officially begun permanently suspending listings that fall below a 2.0-star average, following initial warnings sent out on August 31.
VRMA, VRWS, SCALE Fest: the property manager’s guide to fall 2026’s three big short-term rental conferences
TL;DR: VRMA 26 Nashville (Oct 4-6), VRWS Lyon (Oct 8-9), and SCALE Fest Barcelona (Oct 24-25) all land within seven weeks of each other this fall. VRMA draws 2,500+ attendees and the widest vendor ecosystem; VRWS runs a single curated track capped near 800 operators, and SCALE Fest sells tickets only to operators managing 10+ units. For a 20+ listing property manager, the right pick depends on whether you need vendor breadth, curated content, or a peer-only room, not on which event has the bigger name.
Airbnb’s Supply Acquisition Strategy for Big Events: Explained Through Sundance
TL;DR: Airbnb is paying $200 to first-time hosts in Boulder, Colorado, as the city takes over from Park City, Utah, as the new home of the Sundance Film Festival in January 2027. The festival is a huge draw and brings a wave of demand with it, and Airbnb wants the supply to capture that demand. The strategy worth decoding is what comes next: how Airbnb turns supply it acquires for one event into supply that stays.
How to Build Your Hospitality Design System With AI
TL;DR: Send an owner a report, invite, or dashboard with the wrong brand colors, and it reads as inattention. Claude Design can reduce that repetition: build a saved brand system covering your logo, colors, fonts, photo style, and voice, then reuse those rules across reports, invites, dashboards, welcome sheets, and social graphics without specifying them every time. Setup takes about ten minutes; after that, one prompt replaces a manual design pass.
How short-term rental managers can let AI answer guest questions for them
TL;DR: Short-term rental managers waste hours re-answering the same guest and staff questions, made worse by staff turnover. NotebookLM, a free AI tool from Google, fixes this by answering only from documents you upload, so it never guesses or hallucinates. Upload your house rules, check-in steps, and vendor contacts, and it becomes an instant, accurate answer source your whole team can use, no matter how many properties you manage.
Before You Slash Rates: 4 Steps to Protect Shoulder Season Revenue
TL;DR: RSU by PriceLabs and RevLabs by PriceLabs hosted a masterclass on August 20, 2026 with Jay Whiteley of VueStay Vacations by Casago and Uvika Wahi of Rental Scale-Up. The session covered why a review of last season should come before a pricing change, why available nights matter more than rate moves, how to keep owners from drifting during slow months, and how to get three departments solving one problem together.
Airbnb Launches Coworking Partnerships With Oneder and Work.Life: Will This Attempt Stick?
Airbnb has added flexible workspace bookings to Airbnb Services, starting with coworking locations operated by Oneder and Work.Life in London. ...
