Thibault Masson
What Airbnb’s new Today host tab and price comparison tool with Booking.com say about the company’s priorities
Airbnb hosts will have noticed that Airbnb was busy rolling out a new design for its hosting tools, across their ...
Airbnb, Sonder, and HomeAway’s CEOs on 2021 – 2022 vacation rental trends
Skift’s Global Forum is one of the most respected travel conferences in the world. It is a great place to ...
HomeToGo’s Bryan Boice on the company’s US strategy
HomeToGo, a German-based vacation rental booking channel and meta-search engine, listed on the Frankfurt stock market on September 22, 2021. ...
Summer 2021: Demand for European holiday rentals crammed into fewer listings and over fewer months
AirDNA and Rental Scale-Up are partnering to share and comment on insightful data about European short-term rental market performance moving ...
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 ...
Property management can be a headache – Not with Guesty
Complex operational needs that property managers face on a daily basis – from guest communication to task assignment to payment ...
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, ...
