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vacation rental sustainable travel

Soaring energy costs push vacation rental owners and property managers to act on sustainability (but many think that traveler behavior is too hard to change)

Thibault Masson

Short-term rental managers are taking action to save on energy costs and thus help with environmental issues. Surprisingly, property owners ...

AI text generators for travel and tourism

How vacation rental managers can leverage AI text generators for travel and tourism

Thibault Masson

How can artificial intelligence help vacation rental managers and Airbnb hosts save time and achieve better results? On Rental Scale-Up, ...

airbnb-friendly marketplace

The Airbnb-friendly marketplace lets renters can find a place to live and then airbnb it part-time (i.e., the Airbnb Resident Hosting program)

Thibault Masson

Airbnb has launched a marketplace of Airbnb-friendly apartments in 175 buildings in 25+ markets across the US. This is not ...

short-term rental booking lead times and daily rates spike for holiday season 2022

Thanksgiving 2022 saw guests book earlier; ADRs skyrocket for the holiday season

Uvika Wahi

The upcoming holiday season is shaping up to be one of the most expensive yet for North American and European ...

The Book Direct Blueprint by Boostly's Mark Simpson

The Book Direct Blueprint: A Short-Term Rental Guidebook

Uvika Wahi

Mark Simpson has been on a roll this past year creating comprehensive resources for short-term rental hosts. Aside from the ...

airbnb setup

Airbnb Setup: How the company wants to help millions of new hosts “Airbnb it”

Thibault Masson

Airbnb wants people to do more than consider listing their place on its platform. The company wants to actively help ...

Airbnb-private-rooms

Airbnb Private Rooms: Even Brian Chesky is doing it; Why Airbnb likes people’s bedrooms again.

Uvika Wahi

Suddenly, Airbnb is busy rediscovering and promoting private rooms, i.e., renting a bedroom in someone’s home. Brian Chesky has even ...

Boostly hits $3 million in tracked direct bookings

BookDirect proponent Boostly hits $3 million in tracked direct bookings, announces new hires

Uvika Wahi

Short-term rental solutions provider Boostly reports that the company has generated $3 million in tracked direct bookings for their clients. The company ...

airbnb vs European Union

Transparency: How the European Union has made Airbnb more consumer-friendly than in the U.S.

Uvika Wahi

In the US, social media pressure has made Airbnb implement big changes, from including “hidden fees” earlier in its total ...

Airbnb alternatives for hosts

Airbnb alternatives for hosts: News round-up for Vrbo, Hopper Homes, and Booking.com

Thibault Masson

Vrbo (Expedia Group), Hopper, and Booking.com (Booking Holdings) have recently disclosed business and financial data. We’ve collected the most interesting ...

#airbnbust

#AirbnBUST: Will Airbnb’s 2022 Winter Release aggravate hosts’ fears about oversupply?

Thibault Masson

Is the #Airbnbust upon us? Is it even a real thing? While Airbnb has reported in Q3 2022 its strongest ...

lodgify vacation rental software

Lodgify raises $30M while focusing on the long tail of STR hosts

Thibault Masson

Vacation rental SaaS startup Lodgify has just raised $30m in Series B funding. The solution acts as an online PMS ...

airbnb total price display breakdown

Brian Chesky & Fees: Airbnb to display total “all-in” price to fight against perception it’s become unaffordable

Thibault Masson

As we predicted last week, Airbnb will make prices more transparent to its users starting in December. Why is this ...

VRMA international takeaways

Takeaways from the 2022 VRMA International conference in Las Vegas

Thibault Masson

From October 23 to 26, I attended the 2022 VRMA International conference. It’s one of the biggest and most influential ...

booking.com us strategy 2023

Booking.com’s U.S. strategy for vacation rentals

Thibault Masson

Every year, it is interesting to sit at Booking.com’s VRMA presentation to learn what the Amsterdam-based OTA wants to tell ...

airbnb 2022 winter release 2023

Airbnb 2022 Winter Release

Thibault Masson

On November 16, 2022, Airbnb unveiled its Airbnb 2022 Winter Release. This Release is a mixed bag: Some improvements are ...

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