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Scale Rentals France à Paris en novembre 2022: Pourquoi y aller

Thibault Masson

Du 23 au 25 novembre 2022 se tient à Paris le Scale Rentals France. L’équipe de Rental Scale-Up y sera ...

2023 short-term rental trends

European booking trends show worrying signs for Winter 2022-23 after a soft September

Thibault Masson

For short-term rental operators in Europe, the Summer of 2022 was fantastic, with demand finally surpassing 2019 levels. Yet, the ...

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Top US vacation rental markets hit by Hurricane Ian (maps), Steve Milo reports from Florida, Airbnb not to refund guests.

Thibault Masson

A revived and deadly Hurricane Ian is barreling its way north toward South Carolina’s coast today, a day after landing ...

Airbnb’s advice and data on how to attract digital nomads to your vacation rentals

Airbnb’s advice and data on how to attract digital nomads to your vacation rentals

Thibault Masson

How can you attract more digital nomads to your vacation rentals, for instance, to make up for softening demand in ...

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5 thought-provoking takeaways for vacation rental managers from VRWS 2022

Thibault Masson

If you could not attend the 2022 edition of the Vacation Rental World Summit, we’ve selected for you five thought-provoking ...

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Booking.com is piloting “Request to book” option in 3 countries to grow inventory

Thibault Masson

Booking.com’s new pilot program is a small revolution for the travel platform. In 3 countries, the company currently allows some ...

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Energy crisis: How can vacation rental owners pass on the costs and reduce consumption? Can you market longer stays to “energy tourists”?

Thibault Masson

High energy costs are hitting consumers and property owners, especially in Nothern Europe. We’ll have a look at some graphs ...

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Airbnb bookings for 2022 FIFA World Cup show spike in demand and yet hint of football fans commuting from Dubai

Thibault Masson

The 2022 FIFA World Cup will take place in Qatar from November 20 to December 18, 2022. In the article ...

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Get Excited for VRWS 2022: The Vacation Rental World Summit

Thibault Masson

If you’re in the vacation rental industry, VRWS 2022 is not an event you want to miss. VRWS 2022 is ...

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New Airbnb Categories ads: Can they replicate the success on TikTok of the commercial with the older couple?

Thibault Masson

In February 2022, Airbnb launched a commercial called Baecation, made of a slideshow of still photos featuring a lovely old ...

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Hopper Homes: First performance indicators and future disruption plans

Thibault Masson

How has Hopper Homes been performing so far? With more than 1.72 million destinations searched and 800,000 vacation rental listings ...

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AI-Generated Vacation Rental Photos: From fake listing photos to blog posts, why you need to learn to use them

Thibault Masson

We’ve already covered how vacation rental managers could use AI-generated text to create more enticing listing descriptions, respond to reviews ...

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PriceLabs acquires Rental Scale-Up to deliver more vacation rental insights

Thibault Masson

PriceLabs, the dynamic pricing and revenue management software company, has acquired Rental Scale-Up. Our team, i.e. Uvika and me, will ...

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Do vacation rental data confirm the travel boom in Europe and Booking.com’s good numbers?

Thibault Masson

As a short-term rental manager, how can you use demand and supply data to confirm what you see happening in ...

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Airbnb impact on affordable housing: +50% New hosts in one year, STR bans in tourist destinations

Thibault Masson

Are we stuck in a vicious cycle? Airbnb says that people are turning out in droves to become new Airbnb ...

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Booking.com: 32% of room nights from non-hotels, new features to attract short-term rental hosts.

Thibault Masson

There is no doubt that vacation rentals, short-term rentals, and other non-hotel properties are key to Booking.com’s growth. When Booking ...

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PMS Guesty raises $170M and triples its valuation

Thibault Masson

Vacation rental software remains attractive to investors. Guesty announced on August 16, 2022, that it had closed its latest funding ...

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Is Vacasa’s switch from pure M&A growth to direct homeowner acquisition succeeding?

Thibault Masson

What made Vacasa’s stock jump up more than 30% in mid-August 2022? Last June, we reported how the stocks of ...

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Booking.com new damage policy discourages hosts from asking for a damage deposit

Thibault Masson

Booking.com has rolled out a new “damage policy” whose goal is to dissuade hosts from taking damage deposits. Instead, hosts ...

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3 dramatically different villa rental market recovery stories: Bali vs Thailand vs Sri Lanka (2022 data)

Thibault Masson

While the US vacation rental market began booming as soon as the summer of 2020, the European market only started ...