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Share your opinion and help the EU simplify short-term regulations
Make your voice heard. It is crucial and easy to do. The European Union has plans to simplify short-term rental ...
What Airbnb’s new Today host tab and price comparison tool with Booking.com say about the company’s priorities
Airbnb hosts will have noticed that Airbnb was busy rolling out a new design for its hosting tools, across their ...
Airbnb, Sonder, and HomeAway’s CEOs on 2021 – 2022 vacation rental trends
Skift’s Global Forum is one of the most respected travel conferences in the world. It is a great place to ...
HomeToGo’s Bryan Boice on the company’s US strategy
HomeToGo, a German-based vacation rental booking channel and meta-search engine, listed on the Frankfurt stock market on September 22, 2021. ...
Summer 2021: Demand for European holiday rentals crammed into fewer listings and over fewer months
AirDNA and Rental Scale-Up are partnering to share and comment on insightful data about European short-term rental market performance moving ...
Short Stay Week dates: November 22 – 26 (4 languages, 150 speakers, and 50 workshops)
Rental Scale-Up is happy to announce that it is the media partner for the biggest European online conference of the ...
Why cleaning fees have increased by more than 33% during the pandemic
In May 2021, Airbnb rushed to promise to give full transparency on its cleaning fee, after Twitter and the media ...
Short-term rental data: Super-seasonal Europe breaking records in July and August, but lagging behind the US
During the 2021 edition of the Vacation Rental World Summit, short-term rental data provider AirDNA presented a study of the ...
Oliver’s Travels founder on growing a leading luxury villa rental company
Oliver Bell, the founder of Oliver’s Travels, one of the biggest British villa rental companies, tells Rental Scale-Up how he ...
What makes Gîtes de France and its network of 48,000 properties a powerful force within the French holiday rental market?
If you are French or a Western European traveller, you may have met the word “gîte” before. It is a ...
Airbnb Safety updates: New measures around Guest Safety and Party Prevention
In recent weeks, Airbnb has released new data and features to increase trust and safety on its platform. First, Airbnb ...
US vacation rentals: Booking.com spending money on TV, travel credits, and lower partner commissions (late summer push)
A few weeks ago, we published a deep-dive into Booking.com’s difficulties with cracking the US vacation rental market, in terms ...
A preview of Properly CEO Alex Nigg and CRO Richard Vaughton’s sessions at VRWS 21
Demand for new vacation rental properties continues to climb, making it the most-discussed topic within the industry at the moment. ...
Property management can be a headache – Not with Guesty
Complex operational needs that property managers face on a daily basis – from guest communication to task assignment to payment ...
GuestReady raises €1.5+M in second Seedrs crowdfunding campaign
GuestReady, a European property management company, has already raised more than €1.5M ($1.8M) on the equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs, a ...
Touch Stay: Digital guides that shape a positive guest experience early on
Guest experience is what sets a great vacation rental business apart from a good one. Vacation rental managers everywhere witness ...
8 industry experts share tips for growing your vacation rental property inventory
There is a reason why the vacation rental industry landscape has been a hotbed of acquisition activity all of 2021. ...
VTrips CEO Steve Milo on prioritising profitability in property management acquisitions
Investment activity in the short-term rental industry continues to gather momentum, and recently VTrips has been at the center of ...
Pourquoi participer au Vacation Rental World Summit 2021 en France (à Annecy)
L’équipe de Rental Scale-Up a le plaisir de vous inviter à nous rejoindre à l’édition 2021 du Vacation Rental World ...
Case study: How DPGO wants to shake up the STR dynamic pricing market
For a long time, the list of short-term rental dynamic pricing vendors was rather stable, with BeyondPricing and PriceLabs leading ...
