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Elite Havens CEO: Why luxury villa rentals are the right format post-COVID
This article is part of our Rental Scale-Up vacation rental management conference series. This is an extract from our May 2020 conference: ...
Airbnb Custom Promotions: How To Attract More Bookings With Better Merchandising
Do you offer any summer discounts? Have you lowered your rates recently? While it’s definitely important to sell competitive rates, ...
How to optimize your Airbnb for Summer 2020 travel trends
Is the summer 2020 travel season going to be a total bust? As a property manager, you’re probably wondering when ...
Already 40+ Vacation Rental Business Videos on the Rental Scale-Up Youtube channel
Get actionable insights for your vacation rental business by subscribing to the Rental Scale-Up Youtube channel. As some of you ...
Vacation Rental Recovery, in Data and Charts (US and Europe)
In Europe and in the US, the vacation rental recovery seems to be here. Data show a marked interest for ...
COVID-19 certification for cleaning services: Discover Cristal International Standards, Vrbo’s expert
As cleanliness is perhaps the hottest topic in the short-term rental industry at the moment, property managers can access checklists, ...
Goodbye, HomeAway: The Vrbo brand expands globally, while HomeAway disappears from the US
Goodbye, HomeAway. Adiós, TopRural. Adeus, AlugueTemporada. The Expedia Group has been busy streamlining its portfolio of vacation rental website brands. ...
2 Key Steps for Property Managers Reopening after COVID-19
Jil Mason, the founder of CleaningCertification.com, is sharing with us her expertise on the vacation rental cleaning guideline topic. Weeks ...
8 ways Vrbo has adapted to post-COVID traveler needs
Vrbo has not sat idle when the COVID-19 crisis hit the vacation rental industry. For instance, it tried to balance ...
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky on almost losing everything, and now running a leaner and More Agile Company
The tone of the press about Airbnb.com is changing. The company is now treated as the comeback kid that has ...
Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Trip endorse WTTC’s Safe Travels protocols for Short-Term Rentals
This is no small feat: Getting arch-rivals Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, Trip to agree to have a common stance on something. ...
TurnoverBNB and Rental Scale-Up release their vacation rental cleaning checklist infographic
We have teamed up with TurnoverBNB to offer a handy infographic that you can save on your computer, send to ...
Property managers found Vrbo’s response to COVID-19 crisis the best, while trust in Airbnb collapses, Survey finds
This survey is a snapshot taken in late March, at the peak of the havoc created by the coronavirus COVID-19 ...
Airbnb go near Campaign: A global Effort to promote Domestic Travel and Vacation Rentals
As Summer 2020 is supposed to be about domestic travel and drive-to destinations, Airbnb has launched an impressive global campaign ...
Covid-19: Booking.com rolls out Health, Safety, and Cleaning guidelines and mentions on property pages
Booking.com is now allowing its partners to indicate on their listings which health and safety, physical distancing, and food safety ...
Vrbo and HomeAway enforce Mandatory Price Consistency for All Property Managers
If you are listing your properties on Vrbo and its sister sites (e.g., HomeAway US, HomeAway UK, Abritel in France, ...
The Airbnb Cleaning Handbook: Airbnb’s manual to its Enhanced Cleaning Protocol and Instructions ( + PDF)
In order to pass Airbnb’s cleaning protocol quiz and get the cleaning highlight on their listing, hosts have to familiarize ...
Airbnb hosting cleaning commitment: 5-step protocol, Education & Online Quiz to get the Airbnb Cleaning Highlight
In April 2020, Airbnb announced its Enhanced Cleaning Initiative. The company had already published some a few simple cleaning checklists ...
How to add key Vrbo cleaning practices to your listings
If you are listing properties on Vrbo.com or one of its sister brand websites (e.g., HomeAway, Abritel, FeWo-Direkt, Stayz, Homelidays, ...
Airbnb Professional Tools: Discover the new Airbnb performance report tab and its Quality metrics
Airbnb has launched a new version of its Performance tab. Not only have some names and charts changed, but Airbnb ...
