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U.S. vacation rental market trends with VacayMyWay
Join the Scalers Network to get in-depth insights on US short-term rental trends with this monthly live call every month! ...

Vacation rental owner lead generation campaigns: 3 Key Metrics to Watch for better ROI
As a vacation rental executive, you know that adding new inventory is key to growing your business. But what are ...

Booking.Yeah Super Bowl commercial with Idris Elba (Booking.com)
Booking.com‘s 2022 Super Bowl ad has been revealed. It can win an award for one of the most sadomasochistic exercises ...

Vrbo Super Bowl commercial: A place for together.
The Vrbo Super Bowl 2022 commercial, called A Place for Together, wants to show that the family-friendly Vrbo vacation rental ...

2022 Trends European Property Managers Should Keep an Eye on
Each month, Rental Scale-Up organises a conference, bringing together industry experts to share recent short-term rental trends and insights on ...

How to execute a Homeowner Acquisition Campaign (and when to outsource it to experts)
A homeowner acquisition campaign is a marketing strategy employed by vacation rental management companies to attract homeowners who own property ...

2022 European short-term rental trends, with AirDNA
Each month, I get on a live call with the members of Scalers Network to talk about recent European short-term ...

How Wil Slickers is building Hospitality.FM as the Spotify of hospitality
Wil Slickers, the host of the Slick Talk podcast, has launched Hospitality.FM, a network of hospitality podcasts. We talked with ...

2022 U.S. Travel Trends According to Booking.com
Travel has become more affordable and accessible than ever, with more and more people choosing to travel worldwide during their ...

2022 US Vacation Rental Trends According to Vrbo
Today’s travelers, vacationers, property owners, and prospective real estate investors find themselves in a churning sea of travel restrictions, unanswered ...

How Hopper Homes plans to compete with Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia (2022 update)
Hopper, a fast-growing OTA, has launched Hopper Homes, its product and service offer for the vacation rental home market. Hopper ...

#BookDirect Vendors Unite! The Benefits of Joining Forces to Better Serve the Vacation Rental Industry
The vacation rental industry is booming, and more and more people are choosing to rent out their properties for short-term ...

2022 Holiday Let Industry Trends With Graham Donoghue (CEO, Sykes Holiday Cottages)
Thibault Masson: Graham Donoghue is the CEO of Sykes Holiday Cottages and is one of the biggest property managers in ...

Listify.ai: Vacation rental and Airbnb listing descriptions powered by AI
Can AI-powered tools help property managers do a better and faster job at creating and updating their listings? In an ...

How Nocturne Luxury Villas is consolidating the luxury vacation rental market
Consolidation is hitting the luxury vacation rental market too. While Vacasa and VTrips are busy gobbling up property management companies ...

What #BookDirect Day 2022 can teach you even if you’re loyal to Airbnb and Vrbo
The #BookDirect movement wants vacation rental owners and managers to be independent of third parties like Airbnb, Booking.com Vrbo. But ...

How HospitalityTech entrepreneur Henry Bennett created PropertyCare.com, after YourWelcome (product marketing series)
In our vacation rental tech product marketing series, we interviewed Henry Bennett, the CEO and co-founder of the YourWelcome tablets ...

Product Marketing Case: Property monitoring solution Minut’s market entry into France and Spain
Swedish property monitoring solution Minut is launching in France and Spain as part of its global expansion. In our product ...

How to build and position a vacation rental tech company (with Hostaway CEO Marcus Räder)
Marcus Räder is one of the best-placed persons in the world to talk about building and growing a vacation rental ...

3 experts share short-term rental trends EU property managers should prepare for in 2022
As we move further into the year 2022, vacation rental trends are shifting and evolving. Travel restrictions and Covid-19 variants ...