Thibault Masson

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 ...

How to use content marketing to build authority and become an Airbnb alternative
How do you turn your listing site into a travel resource that hits multiple times each of the visitors in ...

AirDNA: VRWS 2021, Fascinating summer 2021 data, and dynamic pricing integration with Futurestay
AirDNA is one of the sponsors of the upcoming 2021 edition of the Vacation Rental World Summit (VRWS) in Annecy, ...

Hometogo: $1bn value based on booking commissions and software revenues
As we announced last week, vacation rental marketplace Hometogo is supposed to go public via a planned €1.2 billion transaction. ...

Investment money and deal-making also flourishing in Europe
While the overall vacation rental market data are not as rosy in Europe as in the US for this summer, ...

How sponsoring VRWS 2021 can help you get more leads, grow your authority, and gather market insights
If you are a vacation rental industry player, such as a vendor, a listing site, or a software provider, you ...

Expedia Group (EXPE) and its subsidiary Vrbo – Growing Connections
Vrbo has been part of Expedia Group for a few years and the connections between the two entities are getting ...

Why attend Vacation Rental World Summit 2021
Our Rental Scale-Up team is delighted to invite you to join us at the 2021 edition of the Vacation Rental ...

(Videos) Deep-dives into Airbnb’s stunning search options: Flexible Destinations, Flexible Matching, and Flexible Dates.
When, on May 24, Airbnb’s CEO Brian Chesky announced that his company was releasing 103 updates, a set of 3 ...

7 new Vrbo developments that property managers and hosts should not miss
While Airbnb was busy packaging no fewer than 103 updates in one release in May, Vrbo has launched new features ...

2021 – 2023 US Short-term rental market trends, according to AirDNA
Short-term rental data provider AirDNA has boldly gone where no industry analyst has gone before by publishing a forecast report ...

Airbnb firm cancellation policy: Differences with moderate and strict
In June 2021, after several months of testing, Airbnb introduced its new Firm cancellation policy. Firm fits between Moderate and ...

Vacation rental tech: Own vs. Rent, a live workshop with Yoomondo
If you are scaling your property management business, it comes a time when you wonder you should be switching from ...





