Thibault Masson
Short Stay Week dates: November 22 – 26 (4 languages, 150 speakers, and 50 workshops)
Rental Scale-Up is happy to announce that it is the media partner for the biggest European online conference of the ...
Why cleaning fees have increased by more than 33% during the pandemic
In May 2021, Airbnb rushed to promise to give full transparency on its cleaning fee, after Twitter and the media ...
Short-term rental data: Super-seasonal Europe breaking records in July and August, but lagging behind the US
During the 2021 edition of the Vacation Rental World Summit, short-term rental data provider AirDNA presented a study of the ...
Oliver’s Travels founder on growing a leading luxury villa rental company
Oliver Bell, the founder of Oliver’s Travels, one of the biggest British villa rental companies, tells Rental Scale-Up how he ...
What makes Gîtes de France and its network of 48,000 properties a powerful force within the French holiday rental market?
If you are French or a Western European traveller, you may have met the word “gîte” before. It is a ...
Airbnb Safety updates: New measures around Guest Safety and Party Prevention
In recent weeks, Airbnb has released new data and features to increase trust and safety on its platform. First, Airbnb ...
US vacation rentals: Booking.com spending money on TV, travel credits, and lower partner commissions (late summer push)
A few weeks ago, we published a deep-dive into Booking.com’s difficulties with cracking the US vacation rental market, in terms ...
GuestReady raises €1.5+M in second Seedrs crowdfunding campaign
GuestReady, a European property management company, has already raised more than €1.5M ($1.8M) on the equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs, a ...
Pourquoi participer au Vacation Rental World Summit 2021 en France (à Annecy)
L’équipe de Rental Scale-Up a le plaisir de vous inviter à nous rejoindre à l’édition 2021 du Vacation Rental World ...
Case study: How DPGO wants to shake up the STR dynamic pricing market
For a long time, the list of short-term rental dynamic pricing vendors was rather stable, with BeyondPricing and PriceLabs leading ...
Airbnb MultiFamily Home Sharing Redux: Will the RealPage Migo partnership fare better than Niido and Pillow in the quest to create Airbnb-friendly buildings?
As we mentioned in our article about long stays, Airbnb is renewing its efforts to capture a slice of the ...
Long stays: Airbnb renews efforts to capture slices of housing, real estate rental, and corporate stay markets. But why are room nights flat?
Since the onset of the pandemic, Airbnb had claimed that people were not just traveling, but also living and working ...
Q2 2021 Airbnb earnings: A unique moment in time when it closed in on giant OTAs like Booking?
Last week, Airbnb released its commercial and financial results for the second quarter (Q2) of 2021. We’ll look at the ...
Addicted to peddling discounted hotel rooms, can Booking.com ever fix its US vacation rental supply and demand issues? (Booking Holdings Q2 results)
Looking at the freshly published Booking Holdings Q2 2021 financial results, online travel agency Booking.com is confirming its image as ...
Vacation Rental World Summit 2021 speakers and presenters
The agenda of VRWS 2021 has just been released. The Vacation Rental World Summit 2021 will be held in Annecy, ...
Vacasa SPAC presentation Slides: Deep-dive on their acquisition strategy (160+ property management companies and counting)
Vacasa, the leading property management company in North America, representing 30,000 properties, is to go public in Q4 2021 through ...
Attract more guests and remote workers with the Airbnb wifi speed test
Airbnb hosts can now test their wifi speed, see the results, and get their listing updated accordingly, straight from the ...
Rentals United and VrTech founder Vanessa De Souza Lage on attending VRWS 2021
Vanessa De Souza Lage is one of the most recognizable faces in the vacation rental industry. A tireless industry maven, ...
What Airbnb’s 2021 mission statement says about the company’s ambitions
A company’s mission statement says a lot about how it sees itself, how it wants others to see it, where ...
FinTech by Booking, Revolut Stays, Dtravel: Payment solution hype vs real-world problems
The topic of payment is so important that Airbnb, and now Booking.com, have set up entire FinTech units. Things are ...
