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Top 10 slides from Sonder’s 2021 investor presentation, as company prepares to go public at a $2.2 billion value
How about a sneak peek at Sonder’s 2021 investor slide deck? Sonder basically takes over well-located apartment developments and hotels to ...
Vrbo Premier Host program: Meaning, How to qualify, and who to contact?
While Airbnb’s Superhost program is more famous, Vrbo‘s Premier Host program is worth considering, with its promise of more visibility in search ...
While US vacation rentals are booming, Europe still stuck
Two months after our February article called European holiday rental market 2021 perspectives darker than US, the gap between the ...
How property managers can drive direct bookings through advocacy marketing
A how-to guide for multi-property owners (Part 2 of 2) In part one of this series, I talked about how ...
How Airbnb is capitalizing on the rural vacation rental boom
In North America and in Europe, summer 2021 promises to be one of the best times ever for the owners ...
Live webinars and 1-to-1 host coaching: Airbnb Ambassadors power the “Made possible by hosting” campaign
To attract the “millions more hosts” that Airbnb needs, according to CEO Brian Chesky, Airbnb is ramping up its Ambassador ...
How human touch beats smart technology to get more direct repeat bookings
In my previous two posts, we tackled breaking free from Online Travel Agents (OTAs) and setting up a price strategy. ...
Vacation rental industry M&A (mergers and acquisitions) activity on the rise in 2021
Investors are still pouring money into the vacation and short-term rental industry in 2021. While many property management and tech ...
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 3: Direct connection or connectivity providers?
Unlike with Airbnb, Booking.com, or Vrbo, you cannot just go to a sign-up page and get your vacation rental listed ...
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 2: Why list with Google?
Getting your vacation rental properties on Google’s Vacation Rentals feature looks very appealing. It promises a new booking source, at ...
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 1: What does it look like?
Some property managers report getting more than 10% of their bookings from Google’s Vacation Rentals meta-search. In this first article, ...
Email Marketing Tips To Grow Your Direct Bookings: Our Top 10 Strategies
Direct marketing and remarketing are time-tested strategies that have shown consistent results in the travel industry. Collecting customer information to ...
Airbnb Hosting Highlights: Ideas that property managers can steal from Airbnb
When you manage a team, you can motivate your people by giving them positive feedback based on long-term accomplishments, peer ...
Vrbo Fast Start, a program to attract Airbnb Superhosts by solving issues common to all new properties
The battle for vacation rental supply growth is heating up among the big platforms. We’ve already covered how Airbnb was ...
How permanent are the remarkable changes in Airbnb’s listing numbers?
For more than a year now, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered demand patterns across most of the world’s short-term rental ...
Pricing, forecasting, and benchmarking: Master the two primary sources of competitive data
Competitive data in the short-term rental market provides managers answers to important questions regarding their pricing strategy. This type of ...
How property managers can drive direct bookings from repeat guests
A how-to guide for multi-property owners (Part 1 of 2) There’s a lot of discussion in the industry right now ...
How do I make my Airbnb listing better? Update your amenities in 2021
If you have not recently updated the Amenities section of your Airbnb listing, you may be missing out on visibility, ...
Vacation rental inventory growth: How Vintory helps VRMs grow their supply
D. Brooke Pfautz is the founder & CEO of Vintory, a company that helps vacation rental managers grow their inventory. ...
New bookings skyrocketed in February in the US but remained depressed in Europe.
For vacation rentals in the US, on average, February was exceptionally bad in terms of the number of nights stayed, ...
