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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. ...
Increase your revenues with dynamic cleaning fees (revenue management for vacation rentals)
You probably know the concept of applying dynamic prices to vacation rental rates so that they automatically increase or decrease ...
DARM 2022: What to Expect at VRMintel’s 4th Annual Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management Conference
The 4th Annual Vacation Rental Data and Revenue Management (DARM) Conference is already upon us and will take place in ...
Airbnb changing its policy on avoidable Host cancellations: Hosts must pay fee from $50 to $1,000 (updated)
(updated on July 27, 2022) Airbnb has announced that, starting August 22, 2022, hosts who cancel a reservation risk paying ...
(US data) Urban short-term rental demand recovering, yet still under 2019 level. International travelers still not fully back.
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a vacation rental boom in the US, with markets in coastal and mountain destinations recording record ...
Add a new revenue stream by creating a “shoppable airbnb”
Do you own a vacation rental or Airbnb? If so, you may be interested in offering “shoppable stays” to your ...
A glimpse at the Guadeloupe and Martinique vacation rental markets with Welcome à la maison
Madly Schenin-King is a female entrepreneur who’s managed to build Welcome à la Maison, the biggest short-term rental industry event ...
Tight Labor Market: How to Find the Right People and Optimize Your Staffing Plan
Labor shortages are hitting industries hard worldwide, but staffing concerns are especially visible in short-term rentals, an industry that in ...
Why attend Rent Responsibly’s free educational online conference (July 12 – 13)?
Our partner Rent Responsibly is organizing a free educational conference on July 12 – 13, called the RR Summit. This ...
Want to buy/sell your short-term rental company or attract investors? Here’s what you need to know.
The vacation rental industry has seen incredible growth in the past year or two. As is usual with industries tasting ...
How you can help shape England’s short-term letting regulations (open consultation)
In its 2021 Tourism Recovery Plan, the English government set out its intention to consider a Tourist Accommodation Registration Scheme. ...
“Go to Airbnb, pick a niche and execute it 10x better”: When Airbnb’s party ban favors smart entrepreneurs.
On June 28, 2022, Airbnb turned its temporary global party ban into a permanent one. The ban was born from ...
2022 Vacation Rental Trends: Sunny days in Europe and US, but what’s next?
Vacation rental data provider AirDNA has used May and June data from Airbnb and Vrbo to look at what Summer ...
What Airbnb horror movies can teach hosts about creating trust with guests
When it comes to hospitality-linked horror movies, hotels had been dominating the screens for years, from Pyscho’s Bates Motel to ...
Short-term rentals for digital nomads: Still a trend to pursue in 2022?
Should all short-term rental managers and owners try and attract digital nomads? At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a ...
