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Airbnb MultiFamily Home Sharing Redux: Will the RealPage Migo partnership fare better than Niido and Pillow in the quest to create Airbnb-friendly buildings?
As we mentioned in our article about long stays, Airbnb is renewing its efforts to capture a slice of the ...

Long stays: Airbnb renews efforts to capture slices of housing, real estate rental, and corporate stay markets. But why are room nights flat?
Since the onset of the pandemic, Airbnb had claimed that people were not just traveling, but also living and working ...

Beyond: Data-driven solutions that increase vacation rental profitability
Between fluctuating trends and burgeoning markets, vacation rental hosts have begun to recognise the value of making business decisions informed ...

Roomonitor: Affording vacation rental hosts peace of mind with noise monitoring
Noise monitoring systems are no longer a peripheral amenity, quickly becoming a staple for vacation rental hosts who wish to ...

Going beyond smart monitoring devices for vacation rental hosts with NoiseAware
For an increasing number of vacation rental hosts, the fallout of not having a smart monitoring device installed is proving ...

How Much Should You Pay Your Vacation Rental Cleaners?
Vacation rental bookings on Airbnb are up 320% since last summer. The expansion of online accommodation sites such as Airbnb, ...

Q2 2021 Airbnb earnings: A unique moment in time when it closed in on giant OTAs like Booking?
Last week, Airbnb released its commercial and financial results for the second quarter (Q2) of 2021. We’ll look at the ...

Radical Storage: Simplifying luggage storage for vacation rental guests
Which vacation rental owner or manager is a stranger to those all too common requests for late checkouts? There are ...

Addicted to peddling discounted hotel rooms, can Booking.com ever fix its US vacation rental supply and demand issues? (Booking Holdings Q2 results)
Looking at the freshly published Booking Holdings Q2 2021 financial results, online travel agency Booking.com is confirming its image as ...

BookingSync and Smily’s Sebastien Grosjean on why he is looking forward to VRWS 21
As September 16-17, 2021 inch closer, the excitement among the attendees of the 2021 iteration of the Vacation Rental World ...

Use Case: How we used Instagram marketing to generate 500+ leads for our vacation rental business
Instagram is a powerful marketing channel for travel brands. But when you get started, you are faced with a unique ...

AJL Atelier’s Simon Lehmann on why not attending VRWS 21 is a mistake
A truw vacation rental industry insider, Simon Lehmann has made his bones in the industry over an impressive career that ...

Vacation Rental World Summit 2021 speakers and presenters
The agenda of VRWS 2021 has just been released. The Vacation Rental World Summit 2021 will be held in Annecy, ...

Vacasa SPAC presentation Slides: Deep-dive on their acquisition strategy (160+ property management companies and counting)
Vacasa, the leading property management company in North America, representing 30,000 properties, is to go public in Q4 2021 through ...

Attract more guests and remote workers with the Airbnb wifi speed test
Airbnb hosts can now test their wifi speed, see the results, and get their listing updated accordingly, straight from the ...

Rentals United and VrTech founder Vanessa De Souza Lage on attending VRWS 2021
Vanessa De Souza Lage is one of the most recognizable faces in the vacation rental industry. A tireless industry maven, ...

What Airbnb’s 2021 mission statement says about the company’s ambitions
A company’s mission statement says a lot about how it sees itself, how it wants others to see it, where ...

FinTech by Booking, Revolut Stays, Dtravel: Payment solution hype vs real-world problems
The topic of payment is so important that Airbnb, and now Booking.com, have set up entire FinTech units. Things are ...

How to use content marketing to build authority and become an Airbnb alternative
How do you turn your listing site into a travel resource that hits multiple times each of the visitors in ...

AirDNA: VRWS 2021, Fascinating summer 2021 data, and dynamic pricing integration with Futurestay
AirDNA is one of the sponsors of the upcoming 2021 edition of the Vacation Rental World Summit (VRWS) in Annecy, ...