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Energy crisis: How can vacation rental owners pass on the costs and reduce consumption? Can you market longer stays to “energy tourists”?
High energy costs are hitting consumers and property owners, especially in Nothern Europe. We’ll have a look at some graphs ...
Airbnb bookings for 2022 FIFA World Cup show spike in demand and yet hint of football fans commuting from Dubai
The 2022 FIFA World Cup will take place in Qatar from November 20 to December 18, 2022. In the article ...
Get Excited for VRWS 2022: The Vacation Rental World Summit
If you’re in the vacation rental industry, VRWS 2022 is not an event you want to miss. VRWS 2022 is ...
New Airbnb Categories ads: Can they replicate the success on TikTok of the commercial with the older couple?
In February 2022, Airbnb launched a commercial called Baecation, made of a slideshow of still photos featuring a lovely old ...
How to anticipate softening demand in your market and prepare for it
U.S. vacation rental markets have thrived these past two years, and based on the most recent data, the travel boom ...
Hopper Homes: First performance indicators and future disruption plans
How has Hopper Homes been performing so far? With more than 1.72 million destinations searched and 800,000 vacation rental listings ...
AI-Generated Vacation Rental Photos: From fake listing photos to blog posts, why you need to learn to use them
We’ve already covered how vacation rental managers could use AI-generated text to create more enticing listing descriptions, respond to reviews ...
PriceLabs acquires Rental Scale-Up to deliver more vacation rental insights
PriceLabs, the dynamic pricing and revenue management software company, has acquired Rental Scale-Up. Our team, i.e. Uvika and me, will ...
Do vacation rental data confirm the travel boom in Europe and Booking.com’s good numbers?
As a short-term rental manager, how can you use demand and supply data to confirm what you see happening in ...
Airbnb impact on affordable housing: +50% New hosts in one year, STR bans in tourist destinations
Are we stuck in a vicious cycle? Airbnb says that people are turning out in droves to become new Airbnb ...
Booking.com: 32% of room nights from non-hotels, new features to attract short-term rental hosts.
There is no doubt that vacation rentals, short-term rentals, and other non-hotel properties are key to Booking.com’s growth. When Booking ...
PMS Guesty raises $170M and triples its valuation
Vacation rental software remains attractive to investors. Guesty announced on August 16, 2022, that it had closed its latest funding ...
What if the predictions about vacation rental demand softening in fall ’22 were right?
The last two years have been good to the short-term industry and this good fortune has not receded yet, if ...
Is Vacasa’s switch from pure M&A growth to direct homeowner acquisition succeeding?
What made Vacasa’s stock jump up more than 30% in mid-August 2022? Last June, we reported how the stocks of ...
Booking.com new damage policy discourages hosts from asking for a damage deposit
Booking.com has rolled out a new “damage policy” whose goal is to dissuade hosts from taking damage deposits. Instead, hosts ...
3 dramatically different villa rental market recovery stories: Bali vs Thailand vs Sri Lanka (2022 data)
While the US vacation rental market began booming as soon as the summer of 2020, the European market only started ...
How does the Airbnb search algorithm work?
While it is impossible to list all Airbnb ranking factors, we can briefly show you how search placement and ranking ...
Airbnb Q2 earnings picture a resilient company prioritizing occasional hosts to get through the recession
Airbnb as a resilient company Airbnb’s business model was shaken but then validated by the new ways that guests used ...
PriceLabs: $30M to help property managers better price their listings
PriceLabs, a leading dynamic pricing tool for the short-term rental industry, went from bootstrapping to raising $30m and from figuring ...
Solutions for Top 5 Staffing Challenges Impacting The Short-Term Rental Industry
The demand for workers in the vacation rental industry has skyrocketed, thanks to its immense growth in the past years. ...
