Thibault Masson
How AI can help you write more attractive property descriptions and reply to guest reviews faster (even negative ones)
The concept of AI-generated content has been around for a while. You may have even seen some clever and witty ...
Vrbo vs Airbnb for hosts: Vrbo claims it is better at generating booking revenues
Vrbo wants to attract hosts that are loyal to Airbnb. We’ve seen it with Vrbo’s Fast Start campaign, where a ...
Top 10 slides from Sonder’s 2021 investor presentation, as company prepares to go public at a $2.2 billion value
How about a sneak peek at Sonder’s 2021 investor slide deck? Sonder basically takes over well-located apartment developments and hotels to ...
Vrbo Premier Host program: Meaning, How to qualify, and who to contact?
While Airbnb’s Superhost program is more famous, Vrbo‘s Premier Host program is worth considering, with its promise of more visibility in search ...
While US vacation rentals are booming, Europe still stuck
Two months after our February article called European holiday rental market 2021 perspectives darker than US, the gap between the ...
How Airbnb is capitalizing on the rural vacation rental boom
In North America and in Europe, summer 2021 promises to be one of the best times ever for the owners ...
Live webinars and 1-to-1 host coaching: Airbnb Ambassadors power the “Made possible by hosting” campaign
To attract the “millions more hosts” that Airbnb needs, according to CEO Brian Chesky, Airbnb is ramping up its Ambassador ...
Vacation rental industry M&A (mergers and acquisitions) activity on the rise in 2021
Investors are still pouring money into the vacation and short-term rental industry in 2021. While many property management and tech ...
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 3: Direct connection or connectivity providers?
Unlike with Airbnb, Booking.com, or Vrbo, you cannot just go to a sign-up page and get your vacation rental listed ...
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 2: Why list with Google?
Getting your vacation rental properties on Google’s Vacation Rentals feature looks very appealing. It promises a new booking source, at ...
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 1: What does it look like?
Some property managers report getting more than 10% of their bookings from Google’s Vacation Rentals meta-search. In this first article, ...
Airbnb Hosting Highlights: Ideas that property managers can steal from Airbnb
When you manage a team, you can motivate your people by giving them positive feedback based on long-term accomplishments, peer ...
Vrbo Fast Start, a program to attract Airbnb Superhosts by solving issues common to all new properties
The battle for vacation rental supply growth is heating up among the big platforms. We’ve already covered how Airbnb was ...
How permanent are the remarkable changes in Airbnb’s listing numbers?
For more than a year now, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered demand patterns across most of the world’s short-term rental ...
How do I make my Airbnb listing better? Update your amenities in 2021
If you have not recently updated the Amenities section of your Airbnb listing, you may be missing out on visibility, ...
Vacation rental inventory growth: How Vintory helps VRMs grow their supply
D. Brooke Pfautz is the founder & CEO of Vintory, a company that helps vacation rental managers grow their inventory. ...
New bookings skyrocketed in February in the US but remained depressed in Europe.
For vacation rentals in the US, on average, February was exceptionally bad in terms of the number of nights stayed, ...
Airbnb COVID-19 safety practices: Mandatory mask-wearing, social distancing, and 5-step enhancing cleaning process
In October 2020, Airbnb rose the bar when it came to COVID-19 safety practices: All Airbnb hosts were required to ...
Is it spring yet? HomeToGo and Sykes Holiday Cottages data turn positive
As reported in our analysis of the reservation data pulled by Transparent, the UK saw a surge in bookings starting ...
UK holiday rental reservation boom creates optimism for European holiday rental market
Up until mid-February, the situation between the US and European holiday market could not be more contrasted: in the US, ...
