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Decoding Airbnb’s strategic priorities for 2023
While commenting on its 2022 financial results, its first-ever profitable year, Airbnb uncovers its three strategic priorities for 2023: In ...
Airbnb Attains Yearly Profitability for First Time in 2022, Breaking Records With Most Profitable Quarter Ever
During the fourth quarter of 2022, Airbnb reported a net income of $319 million, its most profitable quarter ever. Compared ...
Filling Last-Minute Nights: An Online Travel Marketplace for Short-Term Rental Managers
An online travel marketplace specializing in last-minute vacation rentals, getawayGoGo, has announced a partnership with channel manager NextPax Travel Technology. ...
Airbnb’s 2023 Commercials Feature New Categories: Farms, Chef’s Kitchen, Islands, and Skiing, with music and locations
Airbnb Categories will continue to be the talking point of Airbnb’s 2023 marketing strategy if the company’s 2023 new global ...
Comparing Airbnb and Vrbo’s Policies on Verifying Guests and Preventing Party Bookings
Airbnb and Vrbo have recently been in the news for presenting some of their measures to better protects hosts. As ...
Why it makes sense for Expedia to push individual hosts to Vrbo
Recently, there were murmurs that Expedia was set to remove vacation rentals from its website. But according to travel publication ...
booking.yeah doesn’t work, but Booking doubles down for Super Bowl 2023 with Melissa McCarthy
For the second year, Booking.com is releasing a Super Bowl ad. In 2022, its ad featured Idris Elba and relaunched ...
ChatGPT Prompts for Vacation Rental Managers: Combine content, SEO, and formatting
We’ve already covered how vacation rental managers can leverage A.I .text-generators for travel and tourism. As the weeks go by, ...
Don’t Let These Five Factors Derail Your 2023 Short-Term Rental Planning
The short-term rental industry has recently been tested by layoffs and demand uncertainty. December 2022 and January 2023 saw the ...
Short Term Rental Operators Leverage Sustainability Badges to Maximize Clicks and Bookings
The Pursuit of Sustainability: Accommodations and Travelers Show Interest Booking.com’s research reveals an appetite for sustainability on both the traveler ...
Vacation Rental Metasearch Engine Cozycozy Launches Explore Feature to Inspire Travelers
Short-term rental booking platforms are shifting their focus from being a last-minute booking resource to a source of travel inspiration. ...
Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Tripadvisor Join Forces to Showcase Historical Rise of European Short-Term Rental Markets
Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Tripadvisor have teamed up with the European Union to provide exclusive monthly statistics on short-term accommodation ...
Evaluating the Evidence: A Closer Look at Data Provided by Airbnb on New Hosts’ Success
Airbnb’s recent “Airbnb It” advertising campaign has been designed to convince more people to become hosts on their platform. The ...
Creating Content that Converts: Strategies for Marketing Short-Term Rental Businesses From an Expert
Are you looking to increase your short-term rental business’ reach and influence? Crafting effective content is the key to success ...
2023 Short-Term Rental Conferences Property Managers and Owners Cannot Miss
Attending short-term rental industry conferences in 2023 is an important step for vacation rental owners and property managers hoping to ...
2023 Airbnb Commercials: Occasional hosts, airbnb it and get paid!
Over a decade ago, Airbnb’s first hosts were early adopters eager to be the first to join the Airbnb network. ...
Airbnb 2023 strategy playbook
What will Airbnb’s strategy be in 2023? We’ll first look at what Airbnb could take from 2022 and carry over ...
EnviroRental: A sustainability resource designed with short-term rental businesses in mind
It has become increasingly clear lately that the short-term rental industry must recognize the importance of sustainability initiatives and strive ...
Airbnb tells EU also to include Google Travel in upcoming European short-term rental regulations
When responding to the EU’s plan for continent-wide regulations and data-sharing duties for short-term rental platforms, Airbnb asked the Commission ...
Airbnb’s big stick: 4,000 hosts suspended for discrimination, 340,000 guest bookings blocked on New Year’s Eve
When a big company runs an international platform, it must ensure that users are treated fairly and not subject to ...
