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Airbnb 2022 commercials: Airbnb Categories (Castles, Amazing Pools, Camping, and OMG!), with music and locations - 7 June 2022
15 things to do today to get more low season vacation rental bookings - 4 January 2021
Google Ads for Vacation Rentals: Google’s efforts Get more visible but are attacked by travel companies - 23 February 2020
Improve your own Facebook ads by using this trick to discover which ads companies like Airbnb, Stay Alfred and Guesty are running - 4 January 2019
Vacation Rental Marketing: How to conduct fast, fun and efficient user research - 8 April 2018
Niche Vacation Rental Listing Sites: More Bookings, More Independence - 27 March 2016
Facebook Remarketing for Vacation Rentals: My VRMA Europe presentation - 10 March 2016
Facebook Ad Goals Explained For Vacation Rentals - 24 February 2016
Vacation Rental Marketing: How to create a lead magnet to get more email signups - 12 December 2015
Interview on Vacation Rental Success Podcast: How to be a location influencer on Instagram - 10 December 2015
Instagram for vacation rentals: How to market your vacation rental property business - 16 November 2015
Instagram for vacation rentals: My resource list - 28 October 2015
23 Experts Weigh In On The Biggest Vacation Rental Website Design Mistakes - 30 September 2015
How Kim Kardashian and Instagram Help Me Get More Bookings for My Vacation Rentals - 20 August 2015
My Obsession: Generating leads for my vacation rental business - 19 June 2015
My experience with OneFineStay, the unhotel, as a Luxury Vacation Rental owner - 9 February 2015
Vacation Rental Marketing for Luxury Property Owner - 5 January 2015
Insider’s tips for luxury vacation rental owners - 5 January 2015

Airbnb

Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking Software Partner Programs: How to Qualify and Should Property Managers Care? - 30 March 2023
Navigating the Airbnbust: Strategies for Hosts to Thrive in a Changing Market - 30 March 2023
Insights from Airbnb CEO’s Speech: Addressing Loneliness, Designing Outstanding Experiences, and Cultivating Passionate Customers - 23 March 2023
Airbnb Hosts Can Finally See Their Listing Categories: Here’s How to Check and Correct Them - 17 March 2023
The Tragic Case of a Toddler’s Death in a Vacation Rental Raises Questions About Liability and Safety - 17 March 2023
Airbnb’s Future: Moving Beyond Travel and Expanding Housing Options, as per Brian Chesky - 10 March 2023
Affordability and Comfort: Airbnb Targets Budget-Conscious Families - 5 March 2023
Airbnb Plus and Luxe in 2023: A Comeback Story for Premium Stays? - 23 February 2023
Decoding Airbnb’s strategic priorities for 2023 - 17 February 2023
Airbnb Attains Yearly Profitability for First Time in 2022, Breaking Records With Most Profitable Quarter Ever - 17 February 2023
Comparing Airbnb and Vrbo’s Policies on Verifying Guests and Preventing Party Bookings - 12 February 2023
Evaluating the Evidence: A Closer Look at Data Provided by Airbnb on New Hosts’ Success - 19 January 2023
2023 Airbnb Commercials: Occasional hosts, airbnb it and get paid! - 5 January 2023
Airbnb 2023 strategy playbook - 29 December 2022
Airbnb tells EU also to include Google Travel in upcoming European short-term rental regulations - 21 December 2022
Airbnb’s big stick: 4,000 hosts suspended for discrimination, 340,000 guest bookings blocked on New Year’s Eve - 21 December 2022
The Airbnb-friendly marketplace lets renters can find a place to live and then airbnb it part-time (i.e., the Airbnb Resident Hosting program) - 30 November 2022
Airbnb Private Rooms: Even Brian Chesky is doing it; Why Airbnb likes people’s bedrooms again. - 23 November 2022
Transparency: How the European Union has made Airbnb more consumer-friendly than in the U.S. - 16 November 2022
#AirbnBUST: Will Airbnb’s 2022 Winter Release aggravate hosts’ fears about oversupply? - 8 November 2022
Brian Chesky & Fees: Airbnb to display total “all-in” price to fight against perception it’s become unaffordable - 8 November 2022
Airbnb 2022 Winter Release - 31 October 2022
How to get a free Minut noise monitor from Airbnb (5 steps) - 19 October 2022
5 common Airbnb myths that need to get debunked - 7 October 2022
Top US vacation rental markets hit by Hurricane Ian (maps), Steve Milo reports from Florida, Airbnb not to refund guests. - 30 September 2022
Airbnb’s advice and data on how to attract digital nomads to your vacation rentals - 21 September 2022
Airbnb bookings for 2022 FIFA World Cup show spike in demand and yet hint of football fans commuting from Dubai - 7 September 2022
New Airbnb Categories ads: Can they replicate the success on TikTok of the commercial with the older couple? - 6 September 2022
Airbnb impact on affordable housing: +50% New hosts in one year, STR bans in tourist destinations - 24 August 2022
How does the Airbnb search algorithm work? - 10 August 2022
Airbnb Q2 earnings picture a resilient company prioritizing occasional hosts to get through the recession - 3 August 2022
Airbnb changing its policy on avoidable Host cancellations: Hosts must pay fee from $50 to $1,000 (updated) - 22 July 2022
“Go to Airbnb, pick a niche and execute it 10x better”: When Airbnb’s party ban favors smart entrepreneurs. - 5 July 2022
What Airbnb horror movies can teach hosts about creating trust with guests - 29 June 2022
Short-term rentals for digital nomads: Still a trend to pursue in 2022? - 29 June 2022
2022 Update: Airbnb addresses concerns around listing titles, listing visibility, and categories attributed - 24 June 2022
Vacasa, Sonder, and Airbnb stocks down by up to 80% in 6 months: Should all property managers see it as a sign of a hard recession about to hit? - 23 June 2022
How to apply for the $10,000,000 Airbnb OMG! Fund (Airbnb Categories series) - 23 June 2022
Airbnb’s new Co-Hosting platform welcomes professional property managers and matches them with individual hosts - 15 June 2022
How to optimise your listings in view of the Airbnb Categories update - 8 June 2022
Airbnb Travel Insurance for Guests: Cost, details, limitations, differences with Aircover - 7 June 2022
Airbnb 2022 commercials: Airbnb Categories (Castles, Amazing Pools, Camping, and OMG!), with music and locations - 7 June 2022
How do Airbnb Categories work? - 18 May 2022
How do Airbnb Split Stays work? - 17 May 2022
(video + text) Brian Chesky shows what Airbnb’s 2022 Summer Release is about - 13 May 2022
Airbnb 2022 Summer update release - 4 May 2022
Airbnb quarterly results: First profitable Q1 ever, great outlook for 2022 - 4 May 2022
Start Airbnb investing now – insights from James Svetec behind Airbnb For Dummies - 5 April 2022
New Airbnb Rebooking and Refund Policy tougher for Hosts … but Guests affected by new terms too - 1 April 2022
How Airbnb wants to unlock the next generation of Hosts - 29 March 2022
How to get Airbnb host badges: Airbnb.org supporter, Host Advisory Board member, and Community Leader - 29 March 2022
How Airbnb Payments, Inc. became a money transfer platform to help Ukrainian hosts - 9 March 2022
Airbnb Help Ukraine initiative: How to list your place and host a refugee - 1 March 2022
Airbnb Q4 2021 financial results: Great earnings, but question about supply growth linger - 16 February 2022
2022 Airbnb strategy - 16 February 2022
Is Live Anywhere the new normal for Airbnb? - 16 February 2022
Airbnb’s Terms of Service Update Raises Security Deposit Questions - 16 February 2022
Brian Chesky is asking you: If Airbnb could launch anything in 2022, what would it be? - 4 January 2022
Most popular 2021 articles: Airbnb commercials, upgrades, and cancellation policies + Vacasa + Sonder - 28 December 2021
TikTok videos reveal quirky Airbnb listings and 2022 décor trends - 28 December 2021
Airbnb AirCover: Discover the new Host protections and why the Host Guarantee got killed - 22 December 2021
Airbnb’s response to the EU Short-Term Rental Initiative - 14 December 2021
Ask a Superhost and Superhost Ambassadors – Airbnb Insider - 8 December 2021
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking vs Hopper & Co - 1 December 2021
Airbnb: Best financial results ever. But why are long stays plateauing? How are listing numbers doing? - 16 November 2021
Airbnb 2021 Winter Release - 7 November 2021
Why you need to test your wifi using your Airbnb app before November 4 - 2 November 2021
Short-term rental supply drops by 75% in key cities. Are black sheep gone? Airbnb reacting by working with cities and pushing its non-urban “unique stays“ narrative, despite the meager listing numbers. - 19 October 2021
Study of 127,183 Airbnb guest complaints: What we learned and what we didn’t. - 19 October 2021
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking: Stealing the best from one another (supply, positioning, pricing) - 12 October 2021
What Airbnb’s new Today host tab and price comparison tool with Booking.com say about the company’s priorities - 6 October 2021
Airbnb, Sonder, and HomeAway’s CEOs on 2021 – 2022 vacation rental trends - 5 October 2021
Why cleaning fees have increased by more than 33% during the pandemic - 22 September 2021
Airbnb Safety updates: New measures around Guest Safety and Party Prevention - 11 September 2021
Airbnb MultiFamily Home Sharing Redux: Will the RealPage Migo partnership fare better than Niido and Pillow in the quest to create Airbnb-friendly buildings? - 25 August 2021
Long stays: Airbnb renews efforts to capture slices of housing, real estate rental, and corporate stay markets. But why are room nights flat? - 25 August 2021
Q2 2021 Airbnb earnings: A unique moment in time when it closed in on giant OTAs like Booking? - 18 August 2021
Attract more guests and remote workers with the Airbnb wifi speed test - 3 August 2021
What Airbnb’s 2021 mission statement says about the company’s ambitions - 28 July 2021
FinTech by Booking, Revolut Stays, Dtravel: Payment solution hype vs real-world problems - 27 July 2021
(Videos) Deep-dives into Airbnb’s stunning search options: Flexible Destinations, Flexible Matching, and Flexible Dates. - 7 July 2021
Airbnb vs. Vrbo 2021: 8 industry experts on which channel gets you the most bookings (and why) - 1 July 2021
Airbnb firm cancellation policy: Differences with moderate and strict - 29 June 2021
The ridiculous debate about Airbnb’s cleaning fees. - 23 June 2021
No, Airbnb’s Smart Pricing algorithm does not discriminate against black hosts. But … - 22 June 2021
Airbnb and Booking targets of G7 push for higher taxes for multinationals and EU focus on restraining gatekeepers - 15 June 2021
3 thought-provoking data points from Airbnb’s 2021 travel report - 8 June 2021
Summer 2021 Holiday rental market trends (Airbnb, Transparent) - 1 June 2021
Watch Brian Chesky on Airbnb May 24 announcement (+ complete transcript) - 25 May 2021
The 4 pillars of Airbnb’s 2021 Strategy - 25 May 2021
Airbnb’s Q1 2021 data: What if Airbnb’s bet to become more than a travel company was paying off? - 19 May 2021
Airbnb’s May 24, 2021 Special announcement: Takeaways + 103 new features - 17 May 2021
How Airbnb is capitalizing on the rural vacation rental boom - 27 April 2021
Live webinars and 1-to-1 host coaching: Airbnb Ambassadors power the “Made possible by hosting” campaign - 20 April 2021
Airbnb Hosting Highlights: Ideas that property managers can steal from Airbnb - 5 April 2021
How permanent are the remarkable changes in Airbnb’s listing numbers? - 30 March 2021
How do I make my Airbnb listing better? Update your amenities in 2021 - 22 March 2021
Airbnb COVID-19 safety practices: Mandatory mask-wearing, social distancing, and 5-step enhancing cleaning process - 15 March 2021
2020 Airbnb earnings reveal keys to its success: A strong brand and a tech platform that attract exclusive individual hosts - 2 March 2021
Airbnb Flexible Dates, a search hack that gives more visibility to longer stays - 27 February 2021
(2022 update) Airbnb commercials promote unique experiences “Made Possible by Hosts” - 21 February 2021
Airbnb trends 2021: How to get bookings by answering the need to reconnect with loved ones - 8 February 2021
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: In 2021, travel as an antidote to isolation and disconnection. - 8 February 2021
Airbnb’s Extenuating Circumstances Policy in 2021 - 19 January 2021
Airbnb’s new cancellation policies: modified strict, non-refundable, and long-term - 18 January 2021
Airbnb.org for Hosts: Why and how to list with Airbnb’s Open Homes - 11 January 2021
How to prevent parties at vacation rentals (with Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo tips) - 11 December 2020
Real Airbnb booking data show which travel trends should do well in Winter, Spring, and Summer 2021. - 8 December 2020
Airbnb host data: Who are Airbnb hosts? Why are individual hosts more important than professional ones? - 6 December 2020
Why and how do you become an Airbnb associate? - 30 November 2020
The Airbnb Ambassador Program wants you to find, vet and grow new hosts - 30 November 2020
Airbnb business model: IPO SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) - 30 November 2020
Airbnb IPO S-1 prospectus: 7 thought-provoking facts for property managers - 22 November 2020
Should you list on Airbnb + Booking.com + Vrbo/Expedia? - 15 November 2020
Best Airbnb podcasts for hosts: Listen & grow your Airbnb business - 14 November 2020
Vacation rental party prevention: Airbnb gives discounts on monitoring solutions Minut, Roomonitor, and NoiseAware - 14 November 2020
Airbnb IPO: 5 podcasts with Airbnb’s founder Brian Chesky to understand the company’s valuation - 14 November 2020
Airbnb IPO prospectus: Market data and risk factors that will matter, according to AllTheRooms - 9 November 2020
Airbnb IPO for Hosts: Launch of the Airbnb Host Endowment and Airbnb Host Advisory Board - 6 November 2020
Airbnb wants more reliable guests and imposes new Trust, Health, and Safety standards upon travelers - 29 October 2020
Airbnb 2021 travel trends point to renewed demand for vacation rentals - 20 October 2020
How to use the Airbnb 11-star experience framework to get raving reviews and repeat guests - 20 October 2020
Airbnb Simplified Pricing: Changes to the host-only service fee structure - 9 October 2020
Airbnb IPO timeline: A road to dominance or to accountability? - 29 September 2020
Airbnb Hosts Update: Living on Airbnb long-term, re-hiring CS reps, and delayed payments - 10 September 2020
Going Back to Basics: Reimagining Travel and Airbnb in the Post-pandemic World - 7 September 2020
Airbnb IPO 2020: An incredible comeback story, but doubts about the business rebound linger - 23 August 2020
COVID-19 House parties: Airbnb extends booking restrictions to Spain, France, and UK and launches Summer Safety Campaign - 17 August 2020
How To Sync Your Airbnb Calendar With Vrbo And Booking.Com With ICal - 13 August 2020
Discover how Airbnb’s Global Head of Hosting wants to rebuild trust with Airbnb Hosts - 9 August 2020
While Booking.com launches a “Work-Friendly Program” for homes and apartments, Airbnb reduces Airbnb for Work into a more nimble “Laptop-Friendly Workspace” requirement. - 1 August 2020
airbnb ceo Brian Chesky on drastic changes in travel patterns, pausing Airbnb plus and luxe, focusing on homes and experiences, refunding guests, firing employees, IPO plans and racial justice. - 27 July 2020
Why And How Should Hosts Use Airbnb’s New Listing Promotion? - 19 July 2020
How To Set Promotions And Discounts On Airbnb - 8 July 2020
Airbnb Custom Promotions: How To Attract More Bookings With Better Merchandising - 6 July 2020
How to optimize your Airbnb for Summer 2020 travel trends - 6 July 2020
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky on almost losing everything, and now running a leaner and More Agile Company - 25 June 2020
Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Trip endorse WTTC’s Safe Travels protocols for Short-Term Rentals - 24 June 2020
Property managers found Vrbo’s response to COVID-19 crisis the best, while trust in Airbnb collapses, Survey finds - 19 June 2020
Airbnb go near Campaign: A global Effort to promote Domestic Travel and Vacation Rentals - 13 June 2020
The Airbnb Cleaning Handbook: Airbnb’s manual to its Enhanced Cleaning Protocol and Instructions ( + PDF) - 9 June 2020
Airbnb hosting cleaning commitment: 5-step protocol, Education & Online Quiz to get the Airbnb Cleaning Highlight - 8 June 2020
Airbnb Professional Tools: Discover the new Airbnb performance report tab and its Quality metrics - 6 June 2020
Vacation rental Cleanliness: Airbnb’s Cleaning Checklist and Guidelines (COVID-19) - 5 May 2020
The 24-hour and 72-hour buffers between Stays are the real Health Measures in Airbnb’s “new Enhanced Cleaning Initiative” and “Booking Buffer” - 30 April 2020
Airbnb Monthly Stays, the Airbnb feature eclipsed by the Online Experiences hype - 11 April 2020
Airbnb Professional Hosting Tools: What Property Managers Need to Know - 9 April 2020
How to Set Up and Maximize Your Airbnb Pro Marketing Page - 9 April 2020
“Are you a private or a business host?” asks Airbnb (and soon Booking.com) to comply with EU request - 9 April 2020
Coronavirus insights from Vacation rental & Airbnb data (US, Europe, Asia) + Forecasted Demand Trends - 3 April 2020
Airbnb extends Extenuating circumstances until May 31, Pushes for Airbnb Travel Credit, while promising $260M in help to hosts - 1 April 2020
Coronavirus and Airbnb: “More Flexible Reservations” to balance the needs of guests and Hosts - 11 March 2020
Coronavirus crisis (updated Weekly): Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com’s refund and cancellation policies, travel restrictions, how to price your urban or vacation rental. - 4 March 2020
Airbnb Data Analytics in London: Comparing data sets from Inside Airbnb, AirDNA, and Airbnb - 4 March 2020
Airbnb Trust and Safety Standards for Property Managers: What to Expect in 2020 - 2 February 2020
What ambitious Airbnb property management companies can learn from Phocuswright Europe conference videos featuring Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia - 3 January 2019
Branding & Quality Consistency: What startup vacation rental property management companies can learn from Airbnb Plus, Stay Alfred, Tujia and others. - 1 January 2019
Firebnb – Making your last-minute deals on Airbnb more visible - 8 April 2016
Airbnb to collect local tourist tax in Paris - 26 August 2015
My French Airbnb book "Airbnb : Doublez vos Réservations" has been released - 8 May 2015

Airbnb Cleaning

Airbnb IPO

Real Airbnb booking data show which travel trends should do well in Winter, Spring, and Summer 2021. - 8 December 2020
Airbnb host data: Who are Airbnb hosts? Why are individual hosts more important than professional ones? - 6 December 2020
Airbnb business model: IPO SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) - 30 November 2020
Airbnb IPO S-1 prospectus: 7 thought-provoking facts for property managers - 22 November 2020
Should you list on Airbnb + Booking.com + Vrbo/Expedia? - 15 November 2020
Airbnb IPO: 5 podcasts with Airbnb’s founder Brian Chesky to understand the company’s valuation - 14 November 2020
Airbnb IPO prospectus: Market data and risk factors that will matter, according to AllTheRooms - 9 November 2020
Airbnb IPO for Hosts: Launch of the Airbnb Host Endowment and Airbnb Host Advisory Board - 6 November 2020
Airbnb IPO timeline: A road to dominance or to accountability? - 29 September 2020
Airbnb IPO 2020: An incredible comeback story, but doubts about the business rebound linger - 23 August 2020
COVID-19 House parties: Airbnb extends booking restrictions to Spain, France, and UK and launches Summer Safety Campaign - 17 August 2020
Discover how Airbnb’s Global Head of Hosting wants to rebuild trust with Airbnb Hosts - 9 August 2020
airbnb ceo Brian Chesky on drastic changes in travel patterns, pausing Airbnb plus and luxe, focusing on homes and experiences, refunding guests, firing employees, IPO plans and racial justice. - 27 July 2020
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky on almost losing everything, and now running a leaner and More Agile Company - 25 June 2020

Airbnb, Booking, Vrbo cancellations, refunds, and travel restrictions

Booking.com

Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking Software Partner Programs: How to Qualify and Should Property Managers Care? - 30 March 2023
Booking.com Introduces Payments by Booking.com for Vacation Rental Managers - 23 March 2023
booking.yeah doesn’t work, but Booking doubles down for Super Bowl 2023 with Melissa McCarthy - 9 February 2023
Short Term Rental Operators Leverage Sustainability Badges to Maximize Clicks and Bookings - 28 January 2023
Airbnb alternatives for hosts: News round-up for Vrbo, Hopper Homes, and Booking.com - 9 November 2022
Booking.com’s U.S. strategy for vacation rentals - 1 November 2022
Booking.com is piloting “Request to book” option in 3 countries to grow inventory - 21 September 2022
Do vacation rental data confirm the travel boom in Europe and Booking.com’s good numbers? - 24 August 2022
Booking.com: 32% of room nights from non-hotels, new features to attract short-term rental hosts. - 17 August 2022
Booking.com new damage policy discourages hosts from asking for a damage deposit - 10 August 2022
US: Booking.com invests in tech and ads to grow its “alternate accommodations” business - 25 May 2022
Booking.com’s new €1,000,000 Partner Liability Insurance and Damage Deposits by Booking.com vs Airbnb vs Vrbo - 20 April 2022
Booking.com hacks its Deals and Promotions pages to create a “Ukrainian Refugee Rate” - 23 March 2022
Booking.Yeah Super Bowl commercial with Idris Elba (Booking.com) - 7 February 2022
2022 U.S. Travel Trends According to Booking.com - 1 February 2022
7 Ways Booking.com Is Trying to Drive Up Awareness and Consideration for its Short-Term Rentals - 5 January 2022
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking vs Hopper & Co - 1 December 2021
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking: Stealing the best from one another (supply, positioning, pricing) - 12 October 2021
US vacation rentals: Booking.com spending money on TV, travel credits, and lower partner commissions (late summer push) - 8 September 2021
Q2 2021 Airbnb earnings: A unique moment in time when it closed in on giant OTAs like Booking? - 18 August 2021
Addicted to peddling discounted hotel rooms, can Booking.com ever fix its US vacation rental supply and demand issues? (Booking Holdings Q2 results) - 11 August 2021
FinTech by Booking, Revolut Stays, Dtravel: Payment solution hype vs real-world problems - 27 July 2021
Airbnb and Booking targets of G7 push for higher taxes for multinationals and EU focus on restraining gatekeepers - 15 June 2021
US vacation rental boom favors Vrbo while Booking.com falls short due to lack of inventory. - 10 May 2021
How to prevent parties at vacation rentals (with Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo tips) - 11 December 2020
Minimum Cleanliness Score: Booking.com to de-rank and de-list dirty properties - 23 November 2020
Should you list on Airbnb + Booking.com + Vrbo/Expedia? - 15 November 2020
Travel Trends 2021 post-Covid 19: What Booking.com’s predictions mean for short-term rentals - 29 October 2020
Inclusive Travel: Booking.com Launches its Travel Proud Program - 23 September 2020
Booking.com launches weekly and monthly rental rates to cater to the needs of short-term rental operators - 9 September 2020
How To Sync Your Airbnb Calendar With Vrbo And Booking.Com With ICal - 13 August 2020
While Booking.com launches a “Work-Friendly Program” for homes and apartments, Airbnb reduces Airbnb for Work into a more nimble “Laptop-Friendly Workspace” requirement. - 1 August 2020
Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Trip endorse WTTC’s Safe Travels protocols for Short-Term Rentals - 24 June 2020
Property managers found Vrbo’s response to COVID-19 crisis the best, while trust in Airbnb collapses, Survey finds - 19 June 2020
Covid-19: Booking.com rolls out Health, Safety, and Cleaning guidelines and mentions on property pages - 12 June 2020
Coronavirus crisis (updated Weekly): Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com’s refund and cancellation policies, travel restrictions, how to price your urban or vacation rental. - 4 March 2020
What ambitious Airbnb property management companies can learn from Phocuswright Europe conference videos featuring Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia - 3 January 2019
5 Tips to Land a Job at Booking.com’s Homes and Apartments Division - 11 December 2016
Booking.Yeah: Why my joining Booking.com Homes & Apartments division could be good for you - 10 July 2016

Conferences & Events

Web3 in Travel: Decoding the Digital Revolution for Vacation Rental Homes Ahead of the Groundbreaking Conference - 30 March 2023
Takeaways from the 2022 VRMA International conference in Las Vegas - 1 November 2022
Scale Rentals France à Paris en novembre 2022: Pourquoi y aller - 20 October 2022
VITUR 2022: How hosts, managers, and suppliers can build sustainable short-term rental brands - 19 October 2022
Big booking platforms vs. book direct: is there a better choice for hosts and managers? - 12 October 2022
Are big booking platforms friends or foes to hosts and managers? - 29 September 2022
VITUR Summit 2022: Prioritizing guest experience, growth, and advocacy - 28 September 2022
5 thought-provoking takeaways for vacation rental managers from VRWS 2022 - 21 September 2022
Why attend the Web3 in Travel Summit 2022? - 14 September 2022
Get Excited for VRWS 2022: The Vacation Rental World Summit - 6 September 2022
How to anticipate softening demand in your market and prepare for it - 31 August 2022
A glimpse at the Guadeloupe and Martinique vacation rental markets with Welcome à la maison - 13 July 2022
Why attend Rent Responsibly’s free educational online conference (July 12 – 13)? - 12 July 2022
How to sell your property management company (1-hour conference) - 15 June 2022
Skift Future of Lodging Forum: Who is it for, what to expect, and how to attend - 26 April 2022
How to Overcome Rising Costs with Operational Efficiency in times of inflation and labor shortages - 18 April 2022
Over $400,000 Raised in Record-Breaking VRMA Advocacy Fundraising Campaign Kickoff - 17 April 2022
Top Acquisition Strategies to Grow Your Property Inventory in 2022 for property managers in the U.S - 31 March 2022
Why attend Scale Rentals Barcelona 2022? - 29 March 2022
Asking the Hard Questions When Picking a Tech Solution for Your Property Management Business - 17 March 2022
3 keys to success when prospecting for homeowner leads - 16 February 2022
2022 Trends European Property Managers Should Keep an Eye on - 3 February 2022
3 experts share short-term rental trends EU property managers should prepare for in 2022 - 12 January 2022
How to bulletproof your 2022 property management strategy - 22 December 2021
Short Stay Week 2021: Alexis Barceló from ABAL Consulting - 27 October 2021
VITUR Summit 2021 (Malaga): Beyond and Alfred Smart Systems - 27 October 2021
VITUR Summit 2021: Key conference speakers give you a preview - 20 October 2021
Short Stay Week 2021: Rented.com’s Andrew McConnell on unlocking underutilized inventory - 19 October 2021
Short Stay Week dates: November 22 – 26 (4 languages, 150 speakers, and 50 workshops) - 28 September 2021
A preview of Properly CEO Alex Nigg and CRO Richard Vaughton’s sessions at VRWS 21 - 7 September 2021
Property management can be a headache – Not with Guesty - 7 September 2021
Touch Stay: Digital guides that shape a positive guest experience early on - 1 September 2021
Beyond: Data-driven solutions that increase vacation rental profitability - 20 August 2021
Roomonitor: Affording vacation rental hosts peace of mind with noise monitoring - 19 August 2021
Going beyond smart monitoring devices for vacation rental hosts with NoiseAware - 18 August 2021
Radical Storage: Simplifying luggage storage for vacation rental guests - 17 August 2021
BookingSync and Smily’s Sebastien Grosjean on why he is looking forward to VRWS 21 - 11 August 2021
AJL Atelier’s Simon Lehmann on why not attending VRWS 21 is a mistake - 10 August 2021
Vacation Rental World Summit 2021 speakers and presenters - 4 August 2021
Rentals United and VrTech founder Vanessa De Souza Lage on attending VRWS 2021 - 28 July 2021
AirDNA: VRWS 2021, Fascinating summer 2021 data, and dynamic pricing integration with Futurestay - 21 July 2021
How sponsoring VRWS 2021 can help you get more leads, grow your authority, and gather market insights - 14 July 2021
Why attend Vacation Rental World Summit 2021 - 7 July 2021
2021 Short Stay Summit: 3 major holiday rental associations get together - 14 June 2021
Urban short-term rentals, family travel, and luxury properties: Takeaways from Skift’s 2020 Short-Term Rental Summit - 21 December 2020
Antonio Bortolotti of VRWS 2020: I am a pain in the neck, but quality is the key to the success of a conference. - 28 September 2020
Vacation Rental World Summit 2020 – The quality, insightful and action-focused conference you need to attend - 27 September 2020
Vacation Rental World Summit 2020 – Full program & speaker roster - 27 September 2020
Why attend the Book Direct Show to start and grow your vacation rental business - 23 September 2020
2020 VRMA International Conference is canceled: 4 alternative online vacation rental conferences to attend - 30 August 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Richard Vaughton’s 10-point plan to be ready for the return of demand - 31 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: How to design a Lean Vacation Rental Business Model with Filipa Leitão de Aguia - 27 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Airbnb property management company Houseys CEO on pivoting business model - 27 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Business: How to dramatically cut costs to survive - 27 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Casal dei Fichi’s Bob Garner on eco-friendly vacation rental businesses - 27 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: New Zealand holiday rental manager Jo Bourke on facing COVID-19 - 19 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Consultant Natacha Parmantier on Direct Bookings & Social Media - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: How local property mangers can unite to face the big OTAs, with Jaume Barberena - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: 1 US state, 2 vacation rental businesses, very different booking patterns - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: European Holiday Home Association: Summer 2020 vacation rental trends - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Consultant Simon Lehmann of AJL Consulting: COVID-19 & the vacation rental industry - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Conference host Antonio Bortolotti on facing coronavirus COVID-19 - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Cleaning & Coronavirus: Best Practices for Property Managers - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: How to pivot a an urban short-term rental management company during a crisis - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Technology: When market data reveal dramatic changes - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation rental consultant Adrienne Fors on Channel Managers & PMS - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: AirDNA reviews the dramatic changes in Airbnb market data (COVID-19) - 9 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: How to optimize vacation rental safety, quality and cleanliness - 9 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: How to grow your Vacation Rental Business by franchising your brand - 9 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: How vacation rental managers can convince homeowners to accept change - 9 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Rentivo and Klik Villas’ Marc Ribail - 9 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Kei Shibata, Trip101, on Vacation Rental Market Trends in Asia-Pacific - 9 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Luxury villa rental management lessons with Jack Eden from Eden Villas - 9 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation rental pricing company PriceLabs reviews market trends in Asia - 8 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Redefining luxury villa rental management in Asia and Bali - 8 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: How urban short-term rental company Urban Rest attracts corporate travelers - 8 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Airbnb market research: Australia, Bali, New Zealand, and Thailand - 8 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Holiday Rental Mastery author Rex Brown on creating guest loyalty - 8 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Innovation at a Bali Villa Rental Management Company with Bukit Vista CEO - 8 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Technology: Self Check-in with igloohome’s Best Haputpong - 8 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Luxury villa rental management company Villa Finder on Asia-Pacific trends - 8 July 2020
Elite Havens CEO: Why luxury villa rentals are the right format post-COVID - 7 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Learnings from the 2020 Southeast Asia & Oceania villa and Holiday rental conference - 5 June 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: MadeComfy’s Quirin Schwaighofer on switched focus from acquiring supply to generating demand - 4 June 2020
Online conference: how villa and holiday rental managers in south-east asia & oceania have adapted to covid-19. - 22 May 2020
Call for Speakers: South-East Asia & Oceania holiday rental, Villa, and Apartment experts - 12 May 2020
Summer 2020 according to Carlos Villaro Lassen of the European Holiday Home Association: Drive-to destinations, closed or open borders, uncertainty. Why local property managers should unite, while hotels are lobbying against them - 1 May 2020
How to avoid fear and take action: Create Vacation Rental Property Managers Can Create A crisis plan, cut costs, adapt to longer stays, and negotiate with homeowners - 1 May 2020
AJL PROFITABILITY HUB, Simon Lehmann’s online vacation rental conference with 9 experts - 12 April 2020
GETTING YOUR BUSINESS THROUGH THE COVID-19 CRISIS WITH ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS FROM WORLD-CLASS SHORT-TERM AND VACATION RENTAL EXPERTS - 25 March 2020
The Long Game in Airbnb property management (Phocuswright Conference Recap & Videos) - 1 February 2020
Why attend Vacation Rental World Summit 2019 + EUR50 off your ticket - 10 September 2019
VRMA Europe 2019 – VRMA Prague - 4 March 2019
What ambitious Airbnb property management companies can learn from Phocuswright Europe conference videos featuring Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia - 3 January 2019
Why you should be attending Vacation Rental World Summit 2016 - 14 August 2016
Let’s meet up at the 2016 VRMA National Conference #VRMA2016 - 10 August 2016
Vacation Rental World Summit 2015: Learn how to grow your vacation rental business from successful peers - 10 September 2015

Consultants

U.S. Vacation Rentals vs. Labor Shortages: Extenteam’s Luke Bujarski reports - 9 June 2021
Paying homage to Holiday Rental Master Rex Brown - 16 February 2021
Vacation rental consultancy AJL Atelier partners with Hotel.school to launch online courses from top industry leaders & operators - 15 December 2020
Why RentalPreneurs becomes Rental Scale-Up - 8 February 2020
The Vacation Rental Formula: Heather Bayer’s New Learning Platform Delivers Real-Life Action Plans - 13 January 2016
Alan Egan on how RentMoreWeeks.com got started - 13 January 2016
Interview on Vacation Rental Success Podcast: How to be a location influencer on Instagram - 10 December 2015
When can you raise the rates at your vacation rental? The St Barths Case. - 20 August 2015
My French Airbnb book "Airbnb : Doublez vos Réservations" has been released - 8 May 2015
Vacation Rental Marketing for Luxury Property Owner - 5 January 2015
Insider’s tips for luxury vacation rental owners - 5 January 2015

Google vacation rentals

How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 3: Direct connection or connectivity providers? - 12 April 2021
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 2: Why list with Google? - 11 April 2021
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 1: What does it look like? - 6 April 2021

HomeToGo

HomeToGo Modes launching in 2023 - 21 December 2022
What is HomeToGo’s “onsite booking” model and how it can help the company compete with Airbnb - 18 April 2022
HomeToGo’s Bryan Boice on the company’s US strategy - 5 October 2021
Hometogo: $1bn value based on booking commissions and software revenues - 20 July 2021
Is it spring yet? HomeToGo and Sykes Holiday Cottages data turn positive - 9 March 2021

Hopper Homes

Airbnb alternatives for hosts: News round-up for Vrbo, Hopper Homes, and Booking.com - 9 November 2022

indonesia

How to pivot your vacation rental business TWICE to adapt to COVID - 1 December 2021
Cara menentukan niche dalam situs rumah liburan untuk meningkatkan jumlah booking - 26 October 2018
4 Owner dan Manajer mengungkapkan bagaimana mereka menggunakan Instagram untuk Bisnis Penyewaan Rumah Liburan. - 30 August 2018
19 Orang ahli, mengulas kesalahan terbesar desain situs web rumah liburan. - 30 August 2018
Instagram untuk bisnis Rumah Liburan: Aplikasi yang kami gunakan. - 29 August 2018

Industry News

Web3 in Travel: Decoding the Digital Revolution for Vacation Rental Homes Ahead of the Groundbreaking Conference - 30 March 2023
Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking Software Partner Programs: How to Qualify and Should Property Managers Care? - 30 March 2023
Vrbo One Key: A Game-Changing Loyalty Program Boosting Expedia Group’s Brand Synergy - 30 March 2023
Navigating the Airbnbust: Strategies for Hosts to Thrive in a Changing Market - 30 March 2023
Insights from Airbnb CEO’s Speech: Addressing Loneliness, Designing Outstanding Experiences, and Cultivating Passionate Customers - 23 March 2023
Booking.com Introduces Payments by Booking.com for Vacation Rental Managers - 23 March 2023
Unleashing the Power of Heritage Travel and Film Fans: A Guide for Vacation Rental Managers and Airbnb Hosts - 22 March 2023
Airbnb Hosts Can Finally See Their Listing Categories: Here’s How to Check and Correct Them - 17 March 2023
The Tragic Case of a Toddler’s Death in a Vacation Rental Raises Questions About Liability and Safety - 17 March 2023
Urban Short-Term Rentals for Groups: A Comprehensive Deep Dive with Roami’s CEO Andreas King-Geovanis on Strategy and Vision - 17 March 2023
Airbnb’s Future: Moving Beyond Travel and Expanding Housing Options, as per Brian Chesky - 10 March 2023
Affordability and Comfort: Airbnb Targets Budget-Conscious Families - 5 March 2023
EU Reaches Common Position on Short-Term Rental Regulation - 3 March 2023
How A.I. is revolutionizing short-term rental management for increased efficiency and bookings - 2 March 2023
Vrbo to Switch to Expedia Group Platform in 2023: Challenges and Opportunities - 23 February 2023
Airbnb Plus and Luxe in 2023: A Comeback Story for Premium Stays? - 23 February 2023
Decoding Airbnb’s strategic priorities for 2023 - 17 February 2023
Airbnb Attains Yearly Profitability for First Time in 2022, Breaking Records With Most Profitable Quarter Ever - 17 February 2023
Comparing Airbnb and Vrbo’s Policies on Verifying Guests and Preventing Party Bookings - 12 February 2023
Why it makes sense for Expedia to push individual hosts to Vrbo - 12 February 2023
booking.yeah doesn’t work, but Booking doubles down for Super Bowl 2023 with Melissa McCarthy - 9 February 2023
ChatGPT Prompts for Vacation Rental Managers: Combine content, SEO, and formatting - 4 February 2023
Short Term Rental Operators Leverage Sustainability Badges to Maximize Clicks and Bookings - 28 January 2023
Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Tripadvisor Join Forces to Showcase Historical Rise of European Short-Term Rental Markets - 19 January 2023
Evaluating the Evidence: A Closer Look at Data Provided by Airbnb on New Hosts’ Success - 19 January 2023
2023 Airbnb Commercials: Occasional hosts, airbnb it and get paid! - 5 January 2023
Airbnb 2023 strategy playbook - 29 December 2022
EnviroRental: A sustainability resource designed with short-term rental businesses in mind - 22 December 2022
Airbnb tells EU also to include Google Travel in upcoming European short-term rental regulations - 21 December 2022
Airbnb’s big stick: 4,000 hosts suspended for discrimination, 340,000 guest bookings blocked on New Year’s Eve - 21 December 2022
HomeToGo Modes launching in 2023 - 21 December 2022
How to predict short-term rental demand 2023 - 20 December 2022
Will the U.S. vacation rental industry peak in 2023? - 14 December 2022
Vacation rental pros depend less on Airbnb as they grow; PMS and dynamic pricing key to tech stack - 14 December 2022
E.U.: VAT added to all STR stays, collected by Airbnb and other platforms. +20% on stays by 2025? - 13 December 2022
How to craft authentic guest experiences by partnering with local businesses - 13 December 2022
Soaring energy costs push vacation rental owners and property managers to act on sustainability (but many think that traveler behavior is too hard to change) - 7 December 2022
How vacation rental managers can leverage AI text generators for travel and tourism - 7 December 2022
The Airbnb-friendly marketplace lets renters can find a place to live and then airbnb it part-time (i.e., the Airbnb Resident Hosting program) - 30 November 2022
Thanksgiving 2022 saw guests book earlier; ADRs skyrocket for the holiday season - 30 November 2022
Airbnb Private Rooms: Even Brian Chesky is doing it; Why Airbnb likes people’s bedrooms again. - 23 November 2022
BookDirect proponent Boostly hits $3 million in tracked direct bookings, announces new hires - 16 November 2022
Transparency: How the European Union has made Airbnb more consumer-friendly than in the U.S. - 16 November 2022
#AirbnBUST: Will Airbnb’s 2022 Winter Release aggravate hosts’ fears about oversupply? - 8 November 2022
Lodgify raises $30M while focusing on the long tail of STR hosts - 8 November 2022
Brian Chesky & Fees: Airbnb to display total “all-in” price to fight against perception it’s become unaffordable - 8 November 2022
Takeaways from the 2022 VRMA International conference in Las Vegas - 1 November 2022
Booking.com’s U.S. strategy for vacation rentals - 1 November 2022
Airbnb 2022 Winter Release - 31 October 2022
Scale Rentals France à Paris en novembre 2022: Pourquoi y aller - 20 October 2022
European booking trends show worrying signs for Winter 2022-23 after a soft September - 19 October 2022
VITUR 2022: How hosts, managers, and suppliers can build sustainable short-term rental brands - 19 October 2022
How to get a free Minut noise monitor from Airbnb (5 steps) - 19 October 2022
Big booking platforms vs. book direct: is there a better choice for hosts and managers? - 12 October 2022
Why is Guesty morphing into the new Pac-Man of the short-term rental industry? - 12 October 2022
5 common Airbnb myths that need to get debunked - 7 October 2022
Top US vacation rental markets hit by Hurricane Ian (maps), Steve Milo reports from Florida, Airbnb not to refund guests. - 30 September 2022
VITUR Summit 2022: Prioritizing guest experience, growth, and advocacy - 28 September 2022
Airbnb’s advice and data on how to attract digital nomads to your vacation rentals - 21 September 2022
5 thought-provoking takeaways for vacation rental managers from VRWS 2022 - 21 September 2022
Booking.com is piloting “Request to book” option in 3 countries to grow inventory - 21 September 2022
Energy crisis: How can vacation rental owners pass on the costs and reduce consumption? Can you market longer stays to “energy tourists”? - 13 September 2022
Airbnb bookings for 2022 FIFA World Cup show spike in demand and yet hint of football fans commuting from Dubai - 7 September 2022
Get Excited for VRWS 2022: The Vacation Rental World Summit - 6 September 2022
New Airbnb Categories ads: Can they replicate the success on TikTok of the commercial with the older couple? - 6 September 2022
Hopper Homes: First performance indicators and future disruption plans - 31 August 2022
AI-Generated Vacation Rental Photos: From fake listing photos to blog posts, why you need to learn to use them - 30 August 2022
PriceLabs acquires Rental Scale-Up to deliver more vacation rental insights - 24 August 2022
Do vacation rental data confirm the travel boom in Europe and Booking.com’s good numbers? - 24 August 2022
Airbnb impact on affordable housing: +50% New hosts in one year, STR bans in tourist destinations - 24 August 2022
Booking.com: 32% of room nights from non-hotels, new features to attract short-term rental hosts. - 17 August 2022
PMS Guesty raises $170M and triples its valuation - 17 August 2022
Is Vacasa’s switch from pure M&A growth to direct homeowner acquisition succeeding? - 17 August 2022
Booking.com new damage policy discourages hosts from asking for a damage deposit - 10 August 2022
3 dramatically different villa rental market recovery stories: Bali vs Thailand vs Sri Lanka (2022 data) - 10 August 2022
How does the Airbnb search algorithm work? - 10 August 2022
Airbnb Q2 earnings picture a resilient company prioritizing occasional hosts to get through the recession - 3 August 2022
PriceLabs: $30M to help property managers better price their listings - 3 August 2022
Increase your revenues with dynamic cleaning fees (revenue management for vacation rentals) - 27 July 2022
Airbnb changing its policy on avoidable Host cancellations: Hosts must pay fee from $50 to $1,000 (updated) - 22 July 2022
(US data) Urban short-term rental demand recovering, yet still under 2019 level. International travelers still not fully back. - 21 July 2022
Add a new revenue stream by creating a “shoppable airbnb” - 20 July 2022
A glimpse at the Guadeloupe and Martinique vacation rental markets with Welcome à la maison - 13 July 2022
Why attend Rent Responsibly’s free educational online conference (July 12 – 13)? - 12 July 2022
How you can help shape England’s short-term letting regulations (open consultation) - 6 July 2022
“Go to Airbnb, pick a niche and execute it 10x better”: When Airbnb’s party ban favors smart entrepreneurs. - 5 July 2022
2022 Vacation Rental Trends: Sunny days in Europe and US, but what’s next? - 29 June 2022
What Airbnb horror movies can teach hosts about creating trust with guests - 29 June 2022
Short-term rentals for digital nomads: Still a trend to pursue in 2022? - 29 June 2022
2022 Update: Airbnb addresses concerns around listing titles, listing visibility, and categories attributed - 24 June 2022
Vacasa, Sonder, and Airbnb stocks down by up to 80% in 6 months: Should all property managers see it as a sign of a hard recession about to hit? - 23 June 2022
How to apply for the $10,000,000 Airbnb OMG! Fund (Airbnb Categories series) - 23 June 2022
Techsplained, the show that demystifies vacation rental tech - 15 June 2022
How to sell your property management company (1-hour conference) - 15 June 2022
Airbnb’s new Co-Hosting platform welcomes professional property managers and matches them with individual hosts - 15 June 2022
How to optimise your listings in view of the Airbnb Categories update - 8 June 2022
Airbnb Travel Insurance for Guests: Cost, details, limitations, differences with Aircover - 7 June 2022
Airbnb 2022 commercials: Airbnb Categories (Castles, Amazing Pools, Camping, and OMG!), with music and locations - 7 June 2022
Why Expedia Group is taking Vrbo’s Trip Boards to Expedia.com and Hotels.com - 31 May 2022
Vacation rental consultancy AJL Atelier and M&A specialist Raincatcher partner up to target the US market - 31 May 2022
Vrbo’s strengths within the Expedia group: Longer stays over hotels, success in France, Australia, and Brazil. - 31 May 2022
US: Booking.com invests in tech and ads to grow its “alternate accommodations” business - 25 May 2022
Fractional ownership of luxury vacation homes: Pacaso, Ember, Here, Kocomo, Prello, Altacasa & August - 25 May 2022
How do Airbnb Categories work? - 18 May 2022
How do Airbnb Split Stays work? - 17 May 2022
(video + text) Brian Chesky shows what Airbnb’s 2022 Summer Release is about - 13 May 2022
Airbnb 2022 Summer update release - 4 May 2022
Airbnb quarterly results: First profitable Q1 ever, great outlook for 2022 - 4 May 2022
Navigating the Operational Challenges of a Growing Business: Overcoming Inflation and Labor Shortages in Short-Term Rental Management - 3 May 2022
Finding the best vacation rental dynamic pricing tool made easy - 27 April 2022
Skift Future of Lodging Forum: Who is it for, what to expect, and how to attend - 26 April 2022
Alexander Limpert on how property management company GuestReady scaled operations to achieve excellence - 26 April 2022
$16 million in seed funding for Jarvis ML, a machine learning solution provider for vacation rental managers - 21 April 2022
Booking.com’s new €1,000,000 Partner Liability Insurance and Damage Deposits by Booking.com vs Airbnb vs Vrbo - 20 April 2022
How to Overcome Rising Costs with Operational Efficiency in times of inflation and labor shortages - 18 April 2022
What is HomeToGo’s “onsite booking” model and how it can help the company compete with Airbnb - 18 April 2022
Over $400,000 Raised in Record-Breaking VRMA Advocacy Fundraising Campaign Kickoff - 17 April 2022
How to pick a short-term rental software vendor - 13 April 2022
Listen up, property managers: we’ve launched the Scale Rentals podcast - 12 April 2022
What companies do Sykes own? A quick recap after a new string of acquisitions. - 12 April 2022
Investors buy into the importance of guest experience: Touch Stay closes seed funding round to ignite growth - 6 April 2022
Start Airbnb investing now – insights from James Svetec behind Airbnb For Dummies - 5 April 2022
How to increase direct bookings with WhatsApp and Instagram - 5 April 2022
New Airbnb Rebooking and Refund Policy tougher for Hosts … but Guests affected by new terms too - 1 April 2022
Top Acquisition Strategies to Grow Your Property Inventory in 2022 for property managers in the U.S - 31 March 2022
AirDNA review: Vacation Rental Data for the European Market (February 2022) - 30 March 2022
How Airbnb wants to unlock the next generation of Hosts - 29 March 2022
Why attend Scale Rentals Barcelona 2022? - 29 March 2022
How to get Airbnb host badges: Airbnb.org supporter, Host Advisory Board member, and Community Leader - 29 March 2022
Booking.com hacks its Deals and Promotions pages to create a “Ukrainian Refugee Rate” - 23 March 2022
Global Vacation Rental Report: Great insights despite skewed data due to respondent base - 23 March 2022
Futurestay, the vacation rental software platform for rentalpreneurs, raises $11M - 22 March 2022
Asking the Hard Questions When Picking a Tech Solution for Your Property Management Business - 17 March 2022
AirDNA and Transparent acquired: Hotels, Real Estate, OTAs and STR investors hungry for Vacation Rental Data - 17 March 2022
Vacasa (VCSA) 2021 results: High costs of supply growth and tech investment, but positive EBITDA expected in 2023 - 17 March 2022
Evolve Vacation Rental Network raises $100 million, on the heels of Vacasa - 17 March 2022
Vrbo: Stock booster for Expedia Group - 9 March 2022
How Airbnb Payments, Inc. became a money transfer platform to help Ukrainian hosts - 9 March 2022
Vacation rental company funding trends 2021 & 2022 - 3 March 2022
Green VR Events: Making Vacation Rental Industry Events Greener - 3 March 2022
The short-term rental industry joins forces on how to welcome Ukrainian refugees (or just donate) - 3 March 2022
Airbnb Help Ukraine initiative: How to list your place and host a refugee - 1 March 2022
Wave of money over the short-term rental industry. Exclusive report shows investment is not just into big players. - 23 February 2022
Inside Hopper Homes: Susan Ho on launching an MVP with 2 million listings and innovating where Airbnb and Booking.com are not - 23 February 2022
AvantStay and Saluda Grade create a $500 million short-term rental fund - 23 February 2022
Airbnb Q4 2021 financial results: Great earnings, but question about supply growth linger - 16 February 2022
2022 Airbnb strategy - 16 February 2022
Is Live Anywhere the new normal for Airbnb? - 16 February 2022
Airbnb’s Terms of Service Update Raises Security Deposit Questions - 16 February 2022
Best vacation rental markets 2022: Hawaii, Alaska, and Tennessee ahead of Florida - 16 February 2022
How to pick and enter a new vacation rental market (for property managers) - 15 February 2022
U.S. vacation rental market trends with VacayMyWay - 9 February 2022
Vacation rental owner lead generation campaigns: 3 Key Metrics to Watch for better ROI - 8 February 2022
Booking.Yeah Super Bowl commercial with Idris Elba (Booking.com) - 7 February 2022
Vrbo Super Bowl commercial: A place for together. - 7 February 2022
How to execute a Homeowner Acquisition Campaign (and when to outsource it to experts) - 2 February 2022
How Wil Slickers is building Hospitality.FM as the Spotify of hospitality - 1 February 2022
2022 U.S. Travel Trends According to Booking.com - 1 February 2022
2022 US Vacation Rental Trends According to Vrbo - 1 February 2022
How Hopper Homes plans to compete with Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia (2022 update) - 27 January 2022
#BookDirect Vendors Unite! The Benefits of Joining Forces to Better Serve the Vacation Rental Industry - 26 January 2022
2022 Holiday Let Industry Trends With Graham Donoghue (CEO, Sykes Holiday Cottages) - 25 January 2022
Listify.ai: Vacation rental and Airbnb listing descriptions powered by AI - 25 January 2022
How Nocturne Luxury Villas is consolidating the luxury vacation rental market - 25 January 2022
What #BookDirect Day 2022 can teach you even if you’re loyal to Airbnb and Vrbo - 19 January 2022
How HospitalityTech entrepreneur Henry Bennett created PropertyCare.com, after YourWelcome (product marketing series) - 19 January 2022
Product Marketing Case: Property monitoring solution Minut’s market entry into France and Spain - 18 January 2022
How to build and position a vacation rental tech company (with Hostaway CEO Marcus Räder) - 13 January 2022
3 experts share short-term rental trends EU property managers should prepare for in 2022 - 12 January 2022
Your action plan for #BookDirect Day 2022 (with Mark Simpson) - 12 January 2022
7 Ways Booking.com Is Trying to Drive Up Awareness and Consideration for its Short-Term Rentals - 5 January 2022
Brian Chesky is asking you: If Airbnb could launch anything in 2022, what would it be? - 4 January 2022
Why and how to create a home gym at your vacation rental property - 4 January 2022
Most popular 2021 articles: Airbnb commercials, upgrades, and cancellation policies + Vacasa + Sonder - 28 December 2021
TikTok videos reveal quirky Airbnb listings and 2022 décor trends - 28 December 2021
Airbnb AirCover: Discover the new Host protections and why the Host Guarantee got killed - 22 December 2021
How to bulletproof your 2022 property management strategy - 22 December 2021
2022 US Vacation rental trends: The paradox of a “new normal” year that put an end to some record-breaking numbers - 15 December 2021
How Houfy is building a Book Direct OTA. - 14 December 2021
Airbnb’s response to the EU Short-Term Rental Initiative - 14 December 2021
Ask a Superhost and Superhost Ambassadors – Airbnb Insider - 8 December 2021
StayBillety, the Airbnb alternative for sports events and affinity groups, is raising money - 8 December 2021
Vacasa goes public. Discover the company behind the VCSA stock name. - 7 December 2021
How to pivot your vacation rental business TWICE to adapt to COVID - 1 December 2021
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking vs Hopper & Co - 1 December 2021
Vacation rental data: Has tourism become hyperseasonal in Europe? After a longer summer peak, is demand about to plunge again? - 30 November 2021
How to meet growing guest expectations and build trust as a vacation rental professional - 24 November 2021
From Vrbo to Airbnb: New listing, no reviews. How to break the curse of the Cold Start? - 23 November 2021
Instagram Marketing For Your Airbnb & Vacation Rental Business - 23 November 2021
Vrbo 2022 strategy: Focus on large families, more listings on Expedia and Hotels.com - 17 November 2021
How to get the highest channel yield for your vacation rentals - 17 November 2021
Airbnb: Best financial results ever. But why are long stays plateauing? How are listing numbers doing? - 16 November 2021
Scaling your vacation rental business? An outsourced reservation specialist can help. - 9 November 2021
Airbnb 2021 Winter Release - 7 November 2021
European STR market: September data boosted by cross-border travel and higher ADRs, yet last-minute bookings still the norm in Q4 2021 - 3 November 2021
Mid and long-term stay specialist Spotahome: €25m funding, adapting to COVID, expanding to more markets, and what Airbnb & Booking can learn - 3 November 2021
Why you need to test your wifi using your Airbnb app before November 4 - 2 November 2021
Does Dynamic Pricing software make you lose control over your business? Beyond answers (Bonus: Why they have a Customer Advisory Board) - 2 November 2021
Short Stay Week 2021: Alexis Barceló from ABAL Consulting - 27 October 2021
VITUR Summit 2021 (Malaga): Beyond and Alfred Smart Systems - 27 October 2021
Investment: Why are scaling property managers and listing sites turning to crowdfunding? - 27 October 2021
Plum Guide seeks $1.4m from crowdfunding investors, at $146m valuation - 27 October 2021
VITUR Summit 2021: Key conference speakers give you a preview - 20 October 2021
Short-term rental supply drops by 75% in key cities. Are black sheep gone? Airbnb reacting by working with cities and pushing its non-urban “unique stays“ narrative, despite the meager listing numbers. - 19 October 2021
Study of 127,183 Airbnb guest complaints: What we learned and what we didn’t. - 19 October 2021
Short Stay Week 2021: Rented.com’s Andrew McConnell on unlocking underutilized inventory - 19 October 2021
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking: Stealing the best from one another (supply, positioning, pricing) - 12 October 2021
Share your opinion and help the EU simplify short-term regulations - 12 October 2021
What Airbnb’s new Today host tab and price comparison tool with Booking.com say about the company’s priorities - 6 October 2021
Airbnb, Sonder, and HomeAway’s CEOs on 2021 – 2022 vacation rental trends - 5 October 2021
HomeToGo’s Bryan Boice on the company’s US strategy - 5 October 2021
Summer 2021: Demand for European holiday rentals crammed into fewer listings and over fewer months - 29 September 2021
Short Stay Week dates: November 22 – 26 (4 languages, 150 speakers, and 50 workshops) - 28 September 2021
Why cleaning fees have increased by more than 33% during the pandemic - 22 September 2021
Short-term rental data: Super-seasonal Europe breaking records in July and August, but lagging behind the US - 21 September 2021
Oliver’s Travels founder on growing a leading luxury villa rental company - 14 September 2021
What makes Gîtes de France and its network of 48,000 properties a powerful force within the French holiday rental market? - 14 September 2021
Airbnb Safety updates: New measures around Guest Safety and Party Prevention - 11 September 2021
US vacation rentals: Booking.com spending money on TV, travel credits, and lower partner commissions (late summer push) - 8 September 2021
Property management can be a headache – Not with Guesty - 7 September 2021
GuestReady raises €1.5+M in second Seedrs crowdfunding campaign - 7 September 2021
8 industry experts share tips for growing your vacation rental property inventory - 1 September 2021
VTrips CEO Steve Milo on prioritising profitability in property management acquisitions - 1 September 2021
Case study: How DPGO wants to shake up the STR dynamic pricing market - 31 August 2021
Airbnb MultiFamily Home Sharing Redux: Will the RealPage Migo partnership fare better than Niido and Pillow in the quest to create Airbnb-friendly buildings? - 25 August 2021
Long stays: Airbnb renews efforts to capture slices of housing, real estate rental, and corporate stay markets. But why are room nights flat? - 25 August 2021
Going beyond smart monitoring devices for vacation rental hosts with NoiseAware - 18 August 2021
How Much Should You Pay Your Vacation Rental Cleaners? - 18 August 2021
Q2 2021 Airbnb earnings: A unique moment in time when it closed in on giant OTAs like Booking? - 18 August 2021
Radical Storage: Simplifying luggage storage for vacation rental guests - 17 August 2021
Addicted to peddling discounted hotel rooms, can Booking.com ever fix its US vacation rental supply and demand issues? (Booking Holdings Q2 results) - 11 August 2021
BookingSync and Smily’s Sebastien Grosjean on why he is looking forward to VRWS 21 - 11 August 2021
Use Case: How we used Instagram marketing to generate 500+ leads for our vacation rental business - 11 August 2021
AJL Atelier’s Simon Lehmann on why not attending VRWS 21 is a mistake - 10 August 2021
Vacation Rental World Summit 2021 speakers and presenters - 4 August 2021
Vacasa SPAC presentation Slides: Deep-dive on their acquisition strategy (160+ property management companies and counting) - 4 August 2021
Attract more guests and remote workers with the Airbnb wifi speed test - 3 August 2021
Rentals United and VrTech founder Vanessa De Souza Lage on attending VRWS 2021 - 28 July 2021
What Airbnb’s 2021 mission statement says about the company’s ambitions - 28 July 2021
FinTech by Booking, Revolut Stays, Dtravel: Payment solution hype vs real-world problems - 27 July 2021
How to use content marketing to build authority and become an Airbnb alternative - 21 July 2021
AirDNA: VRWS 2021, Fascinating summer 2021 data, and dynamic pricing integration with Futurestay - 21 July 2021
Hometogo: $1bn value based on booking commissions and software revenues - 20 July 2021
Investment money and deal-making also flourishing in Europe - 14 July 2021
How sponsoring VRWS 2021 can help you get more leads, grow your authority, and gather market insights - 14 July 2021
Expedia Group (EXPE) and its subsidiary Vrbo – Growing Connections - 13 July 2021
Why attend Vacation Rental World Summit 2021 - 7 July 2021
(Videos) Deep-dives into Airbnb’s stunning search options: Flexible Destinations, Flexible Matching, and Flexible Dates. - 7 July 2021
Inclusivity in travel: Fabstayz, a dedicated platform for LGBTQ+ guests - 7 July 2021
India vacation rental trends 2021 with Rohit Taparia - 7 July 2021
7 new Vrbo developments that property managers and hosts should not miss - 2 July 2021
Airbnb vs. Vrbo 2021: 8 industry experts on which channel gets you the most bookings (and why) - 1 July 2021
2021 – 2023 US Short-term rental market trends, according to AirDNA - 30 June 2021
Airbnb firm cancellation policy: Differences with moderate and strict - 29 June 2021
Vacation rental tech: Own vs. Rent, a live workshop with Yoomondo - 29 June 2021
How flOasis, a new listing site of unique stays for remote workers, launched in under 12 months - 29 June 2021
The ridiculous debate about Airbnb’s cleaning fees. - 23 June 2021
No Vacancy | Record-High Vacation Rental Bookings Leave Vacation Rental Managers with No Supply - 22 June 2021
No, Airbnb’s Smart Pricing algorithm does not discriminate against black hosts. But … - 22 June 2021
Tourism Declares aims to make property managers more sustainable - 21 June 2021
Hottest U.S. vacation rental trends for summer 2021 - 21 June 2021
7 new Vrbo developments that property managers and hosts should not miss - 15 June 2021
Vrbo commercials: After a Long Wait series, with John Legend - 15 June 2021
Airbnb and Booking targets of G7 push for higher taxes for multinationals and EU focus on restraining gatekeepers - 15 June 2021
2021 Short Stay Summit: 3 major holiday rental associations get together - 14 June 2021
U.S. Vacation Rentals vs. Labor Shortages: Extenteam’s Luke Bujarski reports - 9 June 2021
3 thought-provoking data points from Airbnb’s 2021 travel report - 8 June 2021
Asia-Pacific: SE Asia villa market slumps (-66% in Bali), while Australia booms (+80% in Byron Bay) - 8 June 2021
Last-minute bookings, when should you drop or raise your price? - 3 June 2021
Summer 2021 Holiday rental market trends (Airbnb, Transparent) - 1 June 2021
Increasing the profitability of your rental business at the “Offer moment” - 1 June 2021
Watch Brian Chesky on Airbnb May 24 announcement (+ complete transcript) - 25 May 2021
Airbnb’s Q1 2021 data: What if Airbnb’s bet to become more than a travel company was paying off? - 19 May 2021
Leverage Google Dynamic Search Ads For Your Vacation Rental Business - 17 May 2021
7 things to learn from RedAwning’s plan to make its new owners and managers succeed fast - 17 May 2021
Learn from the experts (it’s not who you think it is) - 11 May 2021
US vacation rental boom favors Vrbo while Booking.com falls short due to lack of inventory. - 10 May 2021
How AI can help you write more attractive property descriptions and reply to guest reviews faster (even negative ones) - 9 May 2021
Vrbo vs Airbnb for hosts: Vrbo claims it is better at generating booking revenues - 5 May 2021
Top 10 slides from Sonder’s 2021 investor presentation, as company prepares to go public at a $2.2 billion value - 4 May 2021
Vrbo Premier Host program: Meaning, How to qualify, and who to contact? - 1 May 2021
While US vacation rentals are booming, Europe still stuck - 27 April 2021
How property managers can drive direct bookings through advocacy marketing - 27 April 2021
How Airbnb is capitalizing on the rural vacation rental boom - 27 April 2021
Live webinars and 1-to-1 host coaching: Airbnb Ambassadors power the “Made possible by hosting” campaign - 20 April 2021
How human touch beats smart technology to get more direct repeat bookings - 16 April 2021
Vacation rental industry M&A (mergers and acquisitions) activity on the rise in 2021 - 13 April 2021
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 3: Direct connection or connectivity providers? - 12 April 2021
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 2: Why list with Google? - 11 April 2021
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 1: What does it look like? - 6 April 2021
Email Marketing Tips To Grow Your Direct Bookings: Our Top 10 Strategies - 5 April 2021
Airbnb Hosting Highlights: Ideas that property managers can steal from Airbnb - 5 April 2021
Vrbo Fast Start, a program to attract Airbnb Superhosts by solving issues common to all new properties - 30 March 2021
How permanent are the remarkable changes in Airbnb’s listing numbers? - 30 March 2021
Pricing, forecasting, and benchmarking: Master the two primary sources of competitive data - 29 March 2021
How property managers can drive direct bookings from repeat guests - 23 March 2021
How do I make my Airbnb listing better? Update your amenities in 2021 - 22 March 2021
Vacation rental inventory growth: How Vintory helps VRMs grow their supply - 21 March 2021
New bookings skyrocketed in February in the US but remained depressed in Europe. - 16 March 2021
How Google Analytics 4 Will Enable More Detailed Measurement Of Your Vacation Rental Website - 10 March 2021
Is it spring yet? HomeToGo and Sykes Holiday Cottages data turn positive - 9 March 2021
UK holiday rental reservation boom creates optimism for European holiday rental market - 6 March 2021
2020 Airbnb earnings reveal keys to its success: A strong brand and a tech platform that attract exclusive individual hosts - 2 March 2021
How to evaluate vacation rental software, with Keystone Awards’ Terry Whyte - 1 March 2021
Airbnb Flexible Dates, a search hack that gives more visibility to longer stays - 27 February 2021
Fully refundable cancellation policies see booking demand at almost the same levels as pre-pandemic - 25 February 2021
European holiday rental market 2021 perspectives darker than US - 22 February 2021
Marketing plan for rental companies: Acting on your Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) - 22 February 2021
(2022 update) Airbnb commercials promote unique experiences “Made Possible by Hosts” - 21 February 2021
How to track the recovery of vacation rentals 2021 - 21 February 2021
Paying homage to Holiday Rental Master Rex Brown - 16 February 2021
Wheelhouse Pro launch: Demo, pricing, & interview with CEO Andrew Kitchell - 16 February 2021
2021, the summer of Vrbo? Impressive US booking data support Expedia Group’s optimism - 14 February 2021
ART Review: Competitive nightly pricing with Rented’s new pricing tool - 11 February 2021
How higher prices and stricter policies on OTAs get you more direct bookings and better cash-flow - 8 February 2021
Airbnb trends 2021: How to get bookings by answering the need to reconnect with loved ones - 8 February 2021
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: In 2021, travel as an antidote to isolation and disconnection. - 8 February 2021
PriceLabs Review: Revenue management with dynamic and data-driven pricing - 5 February 2021
4 vacation rental data specialists predict 2021 travel trends through seven graphs - 1 February 2021
2021 Residential tech for vacation rentals: Cool upgrades to delight guests, beyond smart locks - 1 February 2021
Transparent Review: Consolidated vacation rental data tracking with Smart Rental PRO - 29 January 2021
Discover unknown giants: Awaze, Travel + Leisure, OYO Vacation Homes, and HHD Group - 26 January 2021
Why the buzz around a Vrbo IPO and why it matters to you - 25 January 2021
Smiling House’s Moriya Rockman on the way forward for luxury rental property managers - 25 January 2021
Airbnb’s Extenuating Circumstances Policy in 2021 - 19 January 2021
Airbnb’s new cancellation policies: modified strict, non-refundable, and long-term - 18 January 2021
Marketing plan for rental companies: Acting on your Strengths and Weaknesses (SWOT) - 13 January 2021
Airbtics Review: Efficient property acquisition and competitive pricing for property managers - 11 January 2021
Airbnb.org for Hosts: Why and how to list with Airbnb’s Open Homes - 11 January 2021
Vacation Rental Marketing Strategies To Explore In 2021 - 9 January 2021
2021 vacation rental trends for the industry and your market - 3 January 2021
Surprising insights from 2020 Google Trends: While interest in Airbnb, cabins, and nearby destinations remained strong, topics like cleaning and cancellations faded away fast. - 29 December 2020
Forecasting 2021 Revenue: Why is it vital for vacation rentals? - 28 December 2020
The Ultimate List of Luxury Vacation Rental Websites - 25 December 2020
The first 4 things to optimize in your rental business post Covid-19 - 21 December 2020
Urban short-term rentals, family travel, and luxury properties: Takeaways from Skift’s 2020 Short-Term Rental Summit - 21 December 2020
AirDNA review: Better pricing and pacing data with My Properties and Comp Set - 20 December 2020
Vacation rental consultancy AJL Atelier partners with Hotel.school to launch online courses from top industry leaders & operators - 15 December 2020
Accor Apartments & Villas spans 3 short-term rental categories, from economy to luxury. - 15 December 2020
How to prevent parties at vacation rentals (with Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo tips) - 11 December 2020
Real Airbnb booking data show which travel trends should do well in Winter, Spring, and Summer 2021. - 8 December 2020
Airbnb host data: Who are Airbnb hosts? Why are individual hosts more important than professional ones? - 6 December 2020
Why and how do you become an Airbnb associate? - 30 November 2020
The Airbnb Ambassador Program wants you to find, vet and grow new hosts - 30 November 2020
Vrbo HomeAway family vacation rental US trends for 2021 - 30 November 2020
Airbnb business model: IPO SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) - 30 November 2020
Minimum Cleanliness Score: Booking.com to de-rank and de-list dirty properties - 23 November 2020
How to use Etsy to find great-looking Airbnb welcome books, house signs, and printables - 22 November 2020
Mashvisor vs. Airdna: Tools for your Airbnb Investment Property - 22 November 2020
Airbnb IPO S-1 prospectus: 7 thought-provoking facts for property managers - 22 November 2020
Should you list on Airbnb + Booking.com + Vrbo/Expedia? - 15 November 2020
Best Airbnb podcasts for hosts: Listen & grow your Airbnb business - 14 November 2020
Vacation rental party prevention: Airbnb gives discounts on monitoring solutions Minut, Roomonitor, and NoiseAware - 14 November 2020
Airbnb IPO: 5 podcasts with Airbnb’s founder Brian Chesky to understand the company’s valuation - 14 November 2020
Airbnb IPO prospectus: Market data and risk factors that will matter, according to AllTheRooms - 9 November 2020
The rise of risky reservations in the vacation rental industry, according to Hostfully, Autohost, and Noiseaware - 6 November 2020
The ultimate commented list of short-term rental and vacation rental podcasts - 6 November 2020
Expedia results confirm crucial role of Vrbo and of short-term rentals - 6 November 2020
Airbnb IPO for Hosts: Launch of the Airbnb Host Endowment and Airbnb Host Advisory Board - 6 November 2020
Airbnb wants more reliable guests and imposes new Trust, Health, and Safety standards upon travelers - 29 October 2020
What makes a good Vrbo? Discover the top 10 most popular amenities at vacation rentals - 29 October 2020
Family vacation rentals: How to optimize your Vrbo settings to get more bookings - 29 October 2020
Travel Trends 2021 post-Covid 19: What Booking.com’s predictions mean for short-term rentals - 29 October 2020
Airbnb 2021 travel trends point to renewed demand for vacation rentals - 20 October 2020
How to use the Airbnb 11-star experience framework to get raving reviews and repeat guests - 20 October 2020
Should I list my vacation rental on Expedia? - 20 October 2020
Vrbo commercials reveal its clear focus on family vacation rentals - 20 October 2020
Superhog’s Leo Walton on neutralizing the perils of short-term renting. - 14 October 2020
How vacation rental software companies can grow their business with Romain Giacalone - 14 October 2020
Airbnb Simplified Pricing: Changes to the host-only service fee structure - 9 October 2020
Noiseaware: Noise monitoring against COVID-19 house parties + Vrbo partnership - 4 October 2020
Overlooked, until it is too late: Talking Short-term Rental Safety with Justin Ford - 4 October 2020
Airbnb IPO timeline: A road to dominance or to accountability? - 29 September 2020
Antonio Bortolotti of VRWS 2020: I am a pain in the neck, but quality is the key to the success of a conference. - 28 September 2020
Vacation Rental World Summit 2020 – The quality, insightful and action-focused conference you need to attend - 27 September 2020
Vacation Rental World Summit 2020 – Full program & speaker roster - 27 September 2020
Why attend the Book Direct Show to start and grow your vacation rental business - 23 September 2020
Security, Safety, and Trust: How do Rental Platforms’ Sign-up Pages Reassure Hosts? - 23 September 2020
Inclusive Travel: Booking.com Launches its Travel Proud Program - 23 September 2020
Transparent launches Smart Rental (vacation rental and Airbnb data & analytics) - 23 September 2020
How the COVID-19 crisis helped Expedia Group turn a much-criticized HomeAway into a positively perceived Vrbo - 13 September 2020
Airbnb Hosts Update: Living on Airbnb long-term, re-hiring CS reps, and delayed payments - 10 September 2020
Booking.com launches weekly and monthly rental rates to cater to the needs of short-term rental operators - 9 September 2020
Nokori Pulse, the new vacation rental industry news and community site launched by Wes Melton - 1 September 2020
2020 VRMA International Conference is canceled: 4 alternative online vacation rental conferences to attend - 30 August 2020
Who And What Is Behind The 12 Most Popular YouTube Videos On How To Start And Scale An Airbnb Business - 24 August 2020
How To Sync Your Airbnb Calendar With Vrbo And Booking.Com With A Channel Manager - 24 August 2020
Airbnb IPO 2020: An incredible comeback story, but doubts about the business rebound linger - 23 August 2020
COVID-19 House parties: Airbnb extends booking restrictions to Spain, France, and UK and launches Summer Safety Campaign - 17 August 2020
How To Choose A Vacation Rental Dynamic Pricing Tool - 16 August 2020
Summer 2020 vacation rental trends: France manages to lower the COVID-19 blow, while Italy, Portugal, and especially Spain are hit harder - 16 August 2020
How To Sync Your Airbnb Calendar With Vrbo And Booking.Com With ICal - 13 August 2020
What are the main categories of vacation rental software? - 13 August 2020
Discover how Airbnb’s Global Head of Hosting wants to rebuild trust with Airbnb Hosts - 9 August 2020
Summer 2020 Trends: Rural places, cabins, Cottages, Private pools and “vacation rentals near me”. - 2 August 2020
While Booking.com launches a “Work-Friendly Program” for homes and apartments, Airbnb reduces Airbnb for Work into a more nimble “Laptop-Friendly Workspace” requirement. - 1 August 2020
Vrbo as the key engine to Expedia Group’s results in Q2 2020. Vrbo brand off to a good start with a lot of direct traffic coming in. Supply may increase as homeowners need to generate money during the COVID recession. - 1 August 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: How to hire an Airbnb Virtual Assistant to expand your vacation rental business - 27 July 2020
airbnb ceo Brian Chesky on drastic changes in travel patterns, pausing Airbnb plus and luxe, focusing on homes and experiences, refunding guests, firing employees, IPO plans and racial justice. - 27 July 2020
Why And How Should Hosts Use Airbnb’s New Listing Promotion? - 19 July 2020
misterb&b, the world’s largest booking platform dedicated to the LGBTQ community and its allies, on raising money, adapting to COVID, and investing in tech. - 10 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Luxury villa rental management lessons with Jack Eden from Eden Villas - 9 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Redefining luxury villa rental management in Asia and Bali - 8 July 2020
How To Set Promotions And Discounts On Airbnb - 8 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Luxury villa rental management company Villa Finder on Asia-Pacific trends - 8 July 2020
Elite Havens CEO: Why luxury villa rentals are the right format post-COVID - 7 July 2020
Airbnb Custom Promotions: How To Attract More Bookings With Better Merchandising - 6 July 2020
How to optimize your Airbnb for Summer 2020 travel trends - 6 July 2020
Vacation Rental Recovery, in Data and Charts (US and Europe) - 3 July 2020
COVID-19 certification for cleaning services: Discover Cristal International Standards, Vrbo’s expert - 3 July 2020
Goodbye, HomeAway: The Vrbo brand expands globally, while HomeAway disappears from the US - 26 June 2020
8 ways Vrbo has adapted to post-COVID traveler needs - 25 June 2020
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky on almost losing everything, and now running a leaner and More Agile Company - 25 June 2020
TurnoverBNB and Rental Scale-Up release their vacation rental cleaning checklist infographic - 19 June 2020
Airbnb go near Campaign: A global Effort to promote Domestic Travel and Vacation Rentals - 13 June 2020
Covid-19: Booking.com rolls out Health, Safety, and Cleaning guidelines and mentions on property pages - 12 June 2020
Vrbo and HomeAway enforce Mandatory Price Consistency for All Property Managers - 12 June 2020
The Airbnb Cleaning Handbook: Airbnb’s manual to its Enhanced Cleaning Protocol and Instructions ( + PDF) - 9 June 2020
Airbnb Professional Tools: Discover the new Airbnb performance report tab and its Quality metrics - 6 June 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Learnings from the 2020 Southeast Asia & Oceania villa and Holiday rental conference - 5 June 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: MadeComfy’s Quirin Schwaighofer on switched focus from acquiring supply to generating demand - 4 June 2020
Newsletter gets amazing results restarting my rental after lockdown - 4 June 2020
Online conference: how villa and holiday rental managers in south-east asia & oceania have adapted to covid-19. - 22 May 2020
Vacation Rental Data Analysis: PriceLabs Launches Market Dashboards - 22 May 2020
Vacation Rental Cleanliness: We compare 6 vacation rental cleaning checklists for you - 22 May 2020
Demand data show Why to advertise Your vacation rental property To domestic travelers for Summer 2020 - 13 May 2020
Jeff Hurst: vrbo coronavirus policy helped maintain a balanced Marketplace; Dramatic increase in booking volume - 12 May 2020
Vacation Rental Data Analysis: 5 Resources To Get Free Data On Your Local Short-Term Rental Market - 12 May 2020
Vrbo and HomeAway Cleaning Checklist Enhanced to face COVID-19 coronavirus (vacation rental cleanliness) - 11 May 2020
Vacation rental Cleanliness: Airbnb’s Cleaning Checklist and Guidelines (COVID-19) - 5 May 2020
Vacation Rental Cleanliness: VRMA launches SafeHome, its own COVID-19 cleaning checklist and guidelines - 5 May 2020
How to avoid fear and take action: Create Vacation Rental Property Managers Can Create A crisis plan, cut costs, adapt to longer stays, and negotiate with homeowners - 1 May 2020
Are Vacation Rental bans here to stay? How are OTAs enforcing them? - 21 April 2020
AJL PROFITABILITY HUB, Simon Lehmann’s online vacation rental conference with 9 experts - 12 April 2020
Join Rental scale-Up and support “To Guests, With Love”, a fun initiative to unite and promote the vacation rental industry - 12 April 2020
Coronavirus crisis makes dynamic and smart pricing not reliable. Which metrics and tools can you still use to see current patterns and forecast Recovery? - 12 April 2020
Airbnb Monthly Stays, the Airbnb feature eclipsed by the Online Experiences hype - 11 April 2020
Airbnb Professional Hosting Tools: What Property Managers Need to Know - 9 April 2020
How to Set Up and Maximize Your Airbnb Pro Marketing Page - 9 April 2020
“Are you a private or a business host?” asks Airbnb (and soon Booking.com) to comply with EU request - 9 April 2020
Coronavirus insights from Vacation rental & Airbnb data (US, Europe, Asia) + Forecasted Demand Trends - 3 April 2020
How vacation rental managers can take advantage of the $2tr stimulus Loans and package - 3 April 2020
Airbnb extends Extenuating circumstances until May 31, Pushes for Airbnb Travel Credit, while promising $260M in help to hosts - 1 April 2020
GETTING YOUR BUSINESS THROUGH THE COVID-19 CRISIS WITH ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS FROM WORLD-CLASS SHORT-TERM AND VACATION RENTAL EXPERTS - 25 March 2020
Three smart things to do when you have no guests - 19 March 2020
Coronavirus and Airbnb: “More Flexible Reservations” to balance the needs of guests and Hosts - 11 March 2020
Maximising short term rental bookings during Coronavirus uncertainty - 11 March 2020
Vacation Rental Data and Charts show that coronavirus has biggest impact on bookings in Europe (vs US), in urban areas, for the next 30 days. Drive-to destinations to fare better. - 8 March 2020
The guests stole our coffee machine! - 4 March 2020
How Will Coronavirus Affect Your Rental? - 4 March 2020
The Value Of A Newsletter In Hard Times - 4 March 2020
Airbnb Data Analytics in London: Comparing data sets from Inside Airbnb, AirDNA, and Airbnb - 4 March 2020
Google Ads for Vacation Rentals: Google’s efforts Get more visible but are attacked by travel companies - 23 February 2020
Why RentalPreneurs becomes Rental Scale-Up - 8 February 2020
Airbnb Trust and Safety Standards for Property Managers: What to Expect in 2020 - 2 February 2020
What are safety and security certifications for short-term rental and serviced apartment properties? How to leverage them to get more Bookings? - 2 February 2020
Vacation Rental Market Trends in Asia Pacific: Still growing, but signs of oversupply in key markets - 2 February 2020
How Airbnb Property Management Companies Are Tapping into the multi-family housing market - 2 February 2020
The Long Game in Airbnb property management (Phocuswright Conference Recap & Videos) - 1 February 2020
Trivago found guilty of deceptive advertising - 22 January 2020
Your Newsletter Can Be An Asset In A Crisis - 17 January 2020
Will Listing On Booking.Com Penalise My Pricing? - 17 January 2020
OTA Report – Calendars and Pricing - 10 December 2019
OTA report: Co-hosting - 6 November 2019
Growing direct bookings from 10% to 65% – Case study - 30 October 2019
Vacation Rental Revenue Management: The major 2019 industry trend you could not miss - 28 October 2019
Outstanding performer – Points South - 23 October 2019
The strange things that guests do - 15 October 2019
Deconstructing world class performers – are you one? - 26 September 2019
When the only cleaner in town leaves – Train - 18 September 2019
Three 2019 vacation rental industry trends: OTAs as property managers, property design as a booking factor, and the rise of business travelers. - 10 September 2019
Why attend Vacation Rental World Summit 2019 + EUR50 off your ticket - 10 September 2019
Do you ask this critical question? - 9 September 2019
Wow guests with 360 Photos - 2 September 2019
The Airbnb creative cockroach may lift your fees - 11 June 2019
Direct booking discount – or irrational gimmicks? - 28 May 2019
Getting VR direct bookings and why most owners don’t get them - 16 May 2019
Google Hotels – the big vacation rental experiment - 15 April 2019
How to get keys for short term rentals - 9 April 2019
Loyalty vs simplicity for keys – the vacation rental dilemma - 2 April 2019
Easy guest exits for your vacation rental - 12 March 2019
How to get a logo for your vacation rental - 5 March 2019
VRMA Europe 2019 – VRMA Prague - 4 March 2019
Meet StayFi, a wifi and marketing solution for vacation rental management companies - 4 March 2019
Syncing Airbnb, Booking and Homeaway calendars – it’s free and easy with iCal - 26 February 2019
Airbnb Management Software for Multi-Property Owners: - 25 February 2019
Operating instructions – When less is more - 19 February 2019
Ending the double booking nightmare – via channel managers - 12 February 2019
Humility – a cautionary tale about OTAs - 6 February 2019
Getting the little things right – via feedback - 22 January 2019
Are you missing the obvious for your Vacation Rental? - 22 January 2019
Six predictions for vacation rentals for 2019 - 8 January 2019
Improve your own Facebook ads by using this trick to discover which ads companies like Airbnb, Stay Alfred and Guesty are running - 4 January 2019
What ambitious Airbnb property management companies can learn from Phocuswright Europe conference videos featuring Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia - 3 January 2019
Branding & Quality Consistency: What startup vacation rental property management companies can learn from Airbnb Plus, Stay Alfred, Tujia and others. - 1 January 2019
Predicting leading OTAs and laggards – the Trends tool - 18 December 2018
The gift that keeps on giving - 11 December 2018
How I can read 28 vacation rental blogs every day (sharing this tool with you) - 4 December 2018
Professional Photographer advice for vacation rental owners - 4 December 2018
Why I fired a good cleaner - 19 November 2018
What’s in a name? You’d better care! - 12 November 2018
Is Facebook dead for Vacation Rental bookings? - 5 November 2018
Optimizing your vacation rental for HomeAway - 30 October 2018
Optimising your Vacation Rental for Bookingdotcom - 23 October 2018
Optimising your Vacation Rental for Airbnb bookings - 15 October 2018
VR Mastery Handbook – Table of Contents - 9 October 2018
Marketing your vacation rental offline - 9 October 2018
100 raving fans are a vacation rental business - 2 October 2018
Vacation rentals likely to benefit from new scrutiny on OTAs - 25 September 2018
The best advice I ever received – Go to the Vacation Rental workface - 17 September 2018
Keep your vacation rental knowledge fresh - 10 September 2018
Increase your vacation rental occupancy by 10% without extra bookings - 3 September 2018
Know more about your Vacation Rental guests than they do themselves - 27 August 2018
Nobody laughed when I said goodbye to the OTAs - 20 August 2018
I just said goodbye Airbnb and Homeaway and Booking - 13 August 2018
Harnessing the irrational behaviour of your vacation rental guests - 7 August 2018
Your own online booking facility - 30 July 2018
Get to the top of Google for free with Google My Business - 26 July 2018
Airbnb thrives but is reprimanded by the EU - 23 July 2018
A mastermind group drives success - 23 July 2018
Why barriers to entry are your friend - 10 July 2018
The 8 parts to a winning loyalty program - 30 June 2018
Why your website is golden - 27 June 2018
Short term rental clampdown in Sydney - 27 June 2018
The OTAs compared – Airbnb vs Homeaway vs Booking.com vs Tripadvisor - 20 June 2018
How STANDING OUT brings you bookings - 12 June 2018
The domination of Airbnb - 7 June 2018
We are back – after 3 disasters - 29 May 2018
GDPR for Vacation Rental Business Entrepreneurs: Quick and Not-So Dirty - 21 May 2018
Could Property Management Companies Disappear? Speakers at vacation rental conference show concern. - 18 June 2017
5 Tips to Land a Job at Booking.com’s Homes and Apartments Division - 11 December 2016
Why you should be attending Vacation Rental World Summit 2016 - 14 August 2016
Let’s meet up at the 2016 VRMA National Conference #VRMA2016 - 10 August 2016
Home-Sharing Platforms You Need to Incorporate into Your Business - 8 August 2016
Booking.Yeah: Why my joining Booking.com Homes & Apartments division could be good for you - 10 July 2016
Discover Matt Landau’s Vacation Rental Marketing Blog and See Why You Should Join His Inner Circle - 15 May 2016
Disaster Planning – a precautionary tale - 28 April 2016
Firebnb – Making your last-minute deals on Airbnb more visible - 8 April 2016
Niche Vacation Rental Listing Sites: More Bookings, More Independence - 27 March 2016
How to find niche vacation rental listing sites to get more bookings - 25 March 2016
Family Vacation Rentals: How Clanventure can help you get more bookings year round - 25 March 2016
Misterbnb on growing a gay-friendly vacation rental listing site into a global brand - 24 March 2016
BringFido.com : Higher Occupancy and Higher Revenues with Dog-Friendly Vacation Rentals - 24 March 2016
How NicheEscapes.com helps owners reach out to travellers with specific interests - 24 March 2016
How VR owners and managers can improve their listings with Tripping.com, the world’s largest vacation rental search engine - 22 March 2016
Facebook Remarketing for Vacation Rentals: My VRMA Europe presentation - 10 March 2016
Jeffrey Messud on growing Xotelia into a leading vacation rental software company - 25 February 2016
Facebook Ad Goals Explained For Vacation Rentals - 24 February 2016
James C. Sells demystifies dynamic pricing and has a few actionable tips for vacation rental managers - 5 February 2016
How Bnbsitter helps short-term rental owners welcome guests in 3 different European countries - 4 February 2016
How channel management solution Rentals United helps vacation rental businesses make more bookings - 27 January 2016
5 French Vacation Rental Tech Companies Taking Over Paris and The World - 20 January 2016
The Vacation Rental Formula: Heather Bayer’s New Learning Platform Delivers Real-Life Action Plans - 13 January 2016
Alan Egan on how RentMoreWeeks.com got started - 13 January 2016
Vacation Rental Marketing: How to create a lead magnet to get more email signups - 12 December 2015
Instagram for vacation rentals: How to market your vacation rental property business - 16 November 2015
How vacation rental data can help assess real estate investment opportunities - 4 November 2015
Instagram for vacation rentals: My resource list - 28 October 2015
23 Experts Weigh In On The Biggest Vacation Rental Website Design Mistakes - 30 September 2015
Vacation Rental World Summit 2015: Learn how to grow your vacation rental business from successful peers - 10 September 2015
Airbnb to collect local tourist tax in Paris - 26 August 2015
When can you raise the rates at your vacation rental? The St Barths Case. - 20 August 2015
How Kim Kardashian and Instagram Help Me Get More Bookings for My Vacation Rentals - 20 August 2015
My Obsession: Generating leads for my vacation rental business - 19 June 2015
Rental Owners Share Their Proven Tips and Useful Tools + More Rental Marketing Advice - 16 May 2015
Steal these 5 PDFs from HomeAway + More Rental Advice - 9 May 2015
My French Airbnb book "Airbnb : Doublez vos Réservations" has been released - 8 May 2015
How to use email marketing to increase repeat visits - 11 February 2015
My experience with OneFineStay, the unhotel, as a Luxury Vacation Rental owner - 9 February 2015
Future proofing your vacation rental - 22 January 2015
Vacation Rental Marketing for Luxury Property Owner - 5 January 2015
Insider’s tips for luxury vacation rental owners - 5 January 2015
Its a cleaning business - 6 December 2014
Rental tragedies repeating – the psychology of feedback - 27 November 2014
Have you made yourself free of your rental business? - 4 September 2014
How to target a customer niche – the dog owner example - 6 July 2014
Google trends – threats and opportunities for VR owners - 5 June 2014
Choosing where to advertise your vacation rental – Do you ignore the obvious? - 2 June 2014
The astonishing growth of Airbnb – its impact on vacation rentals - 27 April 2014
More holiday rental bookings – the magical sound alert - 11 March 2014
The powerful enquiry SMS sound alert – How To Do It - 11 March 2014
Setting Simple Email Alerts – How To Do It - 11 March 2014
Fully booked? I laughed when the sceptic called me a bull tish artist. - 26 February 2014
How I Converted 60% of My Enquiries to Bookings - 14 February 2014
How I got started. - 14 February 2014
Are you a fully booked rental owner? - 14 February 2014

Listing on directory sites

“Go to Airbnb, pick a niche and execute it 10x better”: When Airbnb’s party ban favors smart entrepreneurs. - 5 July 2022
How Hopper Homes plans to compete with Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia (2022 update) - 27 January 2022
How Houfy is building a Book Direct OTA. - 14 December 2021
StayBillety, the Airbnb alternative for sports events and affinity groups, is raising money - 8 December 2021
Mid and long-term stay specialist Spotahome: €25m funding, adapting to COVID, expanding to more markets, and what Airbnb & Booking can learn - 3 November 2021
Plum Guide seeks $1.4m from crowdfunding investors, at $146m valuation - 27 October 2021
HomeToGo’s Bryan Boice on the company’s US strategy - 5 October 2021
What makes Gîtes de France and its network of 48,000 properties a powerful force within the French holiday rental market? - 14 September 2021
How to use content marketing to build authority and become an Airbnb alternative - 21 July 2021
Hometogo: $1bn value based on booking commissions and software revenues - 20 July 2021
Keep your vacation rental knowledge fresh - 10 September 2018

Market Data & Pricing

Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Tripadvisor Join Forces to Showcase Historical Rise of European Short-Term Rental Markets - 19 January 2023
Thanksgiving 2022 saw guests book earlier; ADRs skyrocket for the holiday season - 30 November 2022
European booking trends show worrying signs for Winter 2022-23 after a soft September - 19 October 2022
Energy crisis: How can vacation rental owners pass on the costs and reduce consumption? Can you market longer stays to “energy tourists”? - 13 September 2022
Do vacation rental data confirm the travel boom in Europe and Booking.com’s good numbers? - 24 August 2022
3 dramatically different villa rental market recovery stories: Bali vs Thailand vs Sri Lanka (2022 data) - 10 August 2022
PriceLabs: $30M to help property managers better price their listings - 3 August 2022
Increase your revenues with dynamic cleaning fees (revenue management for vacation rentals) - 27 July 2022
(US data) Urban short-term rental demand recovering, yet still under 2019 level. International travelers still not fully back. - 21 July 2022
2022 Vacation Rental Trends: Sunny days in Europe and US, but what’s next? - 29 June 2022
Finding the best vacation rental dynamic pricing tool made easy - 27 April 2022
AirDNA review: Vacation Rental Data for the European Market (February 2022) - 30 March 2022
Global Vacation Rental Report: Great insights despite skewed data due to respondent base - 23 March 2022
AirDNA and Transparent acquired: Hotels, Real Estate, OTAs and STR investors hungry for Vacation Rental Data - 17 March 2022
Best vacation rental markets 2022: Hawaii, Alaska, and Tennessee ahead of Florida - 16 February 2022
U.S. vacation rental market trends with VacayMyWay - 9 February 2022
2022 US Vacation rental trends: The paradox of a “new normal” year that put an end to some record-breaking numbers - 15 December 2021
Vacation rental data: Has tourism become hyperseasonal in Europe? After a longer summer peak, is demand about to plunge again? - 30 November 2021
European STR market: September data boosted by cross-border travel and higher ADRs, yet last-minute bookings still the norm in Q4 2021 - 3 November 2021
Does Dynamic Pricing software make you lose control over your business? Beyond answers (Bonus: Why they have a Customer Advisory Board) - 2 November 2021
Short Stay Week 2021: Rented.com’s Andrew McConnell on unlocking underutilized inventory - 19 October 2021
Summer 2021: Demand for European holiday rentals crammed into fewer listings and over fewer months - 29 September 2021
Short-term rental data: Super-seasonal Europe breaking records in July and August, but lagging behind the US - 21 September 2021
Beyond: Data-driven solutions that increase vacation rental profitability - 20 August 2021
AirDNA: VRWS 2021, Fascinating summer 2021 data, and dynamic pricing integration with Futurestay - 21 July 2021
2021 – 2023 US Short-term rental market trends, according to AirDNA - 30 June 2021
Hottest U.S. vacation rental trends for summer 2021 - 21 June 2021
Asia-Pacific: SE Asia villa market slumps (-66% in Bali), while Australia booms (+80% in Byron Bay) - 8 June 2021
Last-minute bookings, when should you drop or raise your price? - 3 June 2021
Summer 2021 Holiday rental market trends (Airbnb, Transparent) - 1 June 2021
While US vacation rentals are booming, Europe still stuck - 27 April 2021
How permanent are the remarkable changes in Airbnb’s listing numbers? - 30 March 2021
Pricing, forecasting, and benchmarking: Master the two primary sources of competitive data - 29 March 2021
New bookings skyrocketed in February in the US but remained depressed in Europe. - 16 March 2021
Is it spring yet? HomeToGo and Sykes Holiday Cottages data turn positive - 9 March 2021
UK holiday rental reservation boom creates optimism for European holiday rental market - 6 March 2021
European holiday rental market 2021 perspectives darker than US - 22 February 2021
ART Review: Competitive nightly pricing with Rented’s new pricing tool - 11 February 2021
PriceLabs Review: Revenue management with dynamic and data-driven pricing - 5 February 2021
4 vacation rental data specialists predict 2021 travel trends through seven graphs - 1 February 2021
Transparent Review: Consolidated vacation rental data tracking with Smart Rental PRO - 29 January 2021
Airbtics Review: Efficient property acquisition and competitive pricing for property managers - 11 January 2021
Surprising insights from 2020 Google Trends: While interest in Airbnb, cabins, and nearby destinations remained strong, topics like cleaning and cancellations faded away fast. - 29 December 2020
Forecasting 2021 Revenue: Why is it vital for vacation rentals? - 28 December 2020
AirDNA review: Better pricing and pacing data with My Properties and Comp Set - 20 December 2020
Transparent launches Smart Rental (vacation rental and Airbnb data & analytics) - 23 September 2020
How To Choose A Vacation Rental Dynamic Pricing Tool - 16 August 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Technology: When market data reveal dramatic changes - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: AirDNA reviews the dramatic changes in Airbnb market data (COVID-19) - 9 July 2020
Airbnb Professional Tools: Discover the new Airbnb performance report tab and its Quality metrics - 6 June 2020
Vacation Rental Data Analysis: PriceLabs Launches Market Dashboards - 22 May 2020
Demand data show Why to advertise Your vacation rental property To domestic travelers for Summer 2020 - 13 May 2020
Vacation Rental Data Analysis: 5 Resources To Get Free Data On Your Local Short-Term Rental Market - 12 May 2020
Coronavirus crisis makes dynamic and smart pricing not reliable. Which metrics and tools can you still use to see current patterns and forecast Recovery? - 12 April 2020
Coronavirus insights from Vacation rental & Airbnb data (US, Europe, Asia) + Forecasted Demand Trends - 3 April 2020
Vacation Rental Data and Charts show that coronavirus has biggest impact on bookings in Europe (vs US), in urban areas, for the next 30 days. Drive-to destinations to fare better. - 8 March 2020
Airbnb Data Analytics in London: Comparing data sets from Inside Airbnb, AirDNA, and Airbnb - 4 March 2020
Vacation Rental Revenue Management: The major 2019 industry trend you could not miss - 28 October 2019
How to maximize your rental revenues with Airdna’s Pricing Copilot - 5 April 2016
James C. Sells demystifies dynamic pricing and has a few actionable tips for vacation rental managers - 5 February 2016
How vacation rental data can help assess real estate investment opportunities - 4 November 2015
When can you raise the rates at your vacation rental? The St Barths Case. - 20 August 2015

Marketing

How to increase direct bookings with WhatsApp and Instagram - 5 April 2022
Your action plan for #BookDirect Day 2022 (with Mark Simpson) - 12 January 2022
From Vrbo to Airbnb: New listing, no reviews. How to break the curse of the Cold Start? - 23 November 2021
Instagram Marketing For Your Airbnb & Vacation Rental Business - 23 November 2021

Short term rental investment

Vacation rental consultancy AJL Atelier and M&A specialist Raincatcher partner up to target the US market - 31 May 2022
Fractional ownership of luxury vacation homes: Pacaso, Ember, Here, Kocomo, Prello, Altacasa & August - 25 May 2022
Start Airbnb investing now – insights from James Svetec behind Airbnb For Dummies - 5 April 2022
AirDNA and Transparent acquired: Hotels, Real Estate, OTAs and STR investors hungry for Vacation Rental Data - 17 March 2022
Vacasa (VCSA) 2021 results: High costs of supply growth and tech investment, but positive EBITDA expected in 2023 - 17 March 2022
Evolve Vacation Rental Network raises $100 million, on the heels of Vacasa - 17 March 2022
Vacation rental company funding trends 2021 & 2022 - 3 March 2022
Investment: Why are scaling property managers and listing sites turning to crowdfunding? - 27 October 2021
Plum Guide seeks $1.4m from crowdfunding investors, at $146m valuation - 27 October 2021
GuestReady raises €1.5+M in second Seedrs crowdfunding campaign - 7 September 2021
VTrips CEO Steve Milo on prioritising profitability in property management acquisitions - 1 September 2021
Q2 2021 Airbnb earnings: A unique moment in time when it closed in on giant OTAs like Booking? - 18 August 2021
Vacasa SPAC presentation Slides: Deep-dive on their acquisition strategy (160+ property management companies and counting) - 4 August 2021
Investment money and deal-making also flourishing in Europe - 14 July 2021
Top 10 slides from Sonder’s 2021 investor presentation, as company prepares to go public at a $2.2 billion value - 4 May 2021
Vacation rental industry M&A (mergers and acquisitions) activity on the rise in 2021 - 13 April 2021
2020 Airbnb earnings reveal keys to its success: A strong brand and a tech platform that attract exclusive individual hosts - 2 March 2021
Discover unknown giants: Awaze, Travel + Leisure, OYO Vacation Homes, and HHD Group - 26 January 2021
Why the buzz around a Vrbo IPO and why it matters to you - 25 January 2021

Software

Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking Software Partner Programs: How to Qualify and Should Property Managers Care? - 30 March 2023
How A.I. is revolutionizing short-term rental management for increased efficiency and bookings - 2 March 2023
How to predict short-term rental demand 2023 - 20 December 2022
How vacation rental managers can leverage AI text generators for travel and tourism - 7 December 2022
Lodgify raises $30M while focusing on the long tail of STR hosts - 8 November 2022
Why is Guesty morphing into the new Pac-Man of the short-term rental industry? - 12 October 2022
AI-Generated Vacation Rental Photos: From fake listing photos to blog posts, why you need to learn to use them - 30 August 2022
PriceLabs acquires Rental Scale-Up to deliver more vacation rental insights - 24 August 2022
PMS Guesty raises $170M and triples its valuation - 17 August 2022
PriceLabs: $30M to help property managers better price their listings - 3 August 2022
Techsplained, the show that demystifies vacation rental tech - 15 June 2022
$16 million in seed funding for Jarvis ML, a machine learning solution provider for vacation rental managers - 21 April 2022
Investors buy into the importance of guest experience: Touch Stay closes seed funding round to ignite growth - 6 April 2022
AirDNA and Transparent acquired: Hotels, Real Estate, OTAs and STR investors hungry for Vacation Rental Data - 17 March 2022
How to execute a Homeowner Acquisition Campaign (and when to outsource it to experts) - 2 February 2022
Listify.ai: Vacation rental and Airbnb listing descriptions powered by AI - 25 January 2022
How HospitalityTech entrepreneur Henry Bennett created PropertyCare.com, after YourWelcome (product marketing series) - 19 January 2022
How to build and position a vacation rental tech company (with Hostaway CEO Marcus Räder) - 13 January 2022
Property management can be a headache – Not with Guesty - 7 September 2021
Case study: How DPGO wants to shake up the STR dynamic pricing market - 31 August 2021
Rentals United and VrTech founder Vanessa De Souza Lage on attending VRWS 2021 - 28 July 2021
Vacation rental tech: Own vs. Rent, a live workshop with Yoomondo - 29 June 2021
How AI can help you write more attractive property descriptions and reply to guest reviews faster (even negative ones) - 9 May 2021
Wheelhouse Pro launch: Demo, pricing, & interview with CEO Andrew Kitchell - 16 February 2021
ART Review: Competitive nightly pricing with Rented’s new pricing tool - 11 February 2021
PriceLabs Review: Revenue management with dynamic and data-driven pricing - 5 February 2021
Transparent Review: Consolidated vacation rental data tracking with Smart Rental PRO - 29 January 2021
Airbtics Review: Efficient property acquisition and competitive pricing for property managers - 11 January 2021
AirDNA review: Better pricing and pacing data with My Properties and Comp Set - 20 December 2020
Mashvisor vs. Airdna: Tools for your Airbnb Investment Property - 22 November 2020
How To Sync Your Airbnb Calendar With Vrbo And Booking.Com With A Channel Manager - 24 August 2020
How To Choose A Vacation Rental Dynamic Pricing Tool - 16 August 2020
How To Sync Your Airbnb Calendar With Vrbo And Booking.Com With ICal - 13 August 2020
What are the main categories of vacation rental software? - 13 August 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: AirDNA reviews the dramatic changes in Airbnb market data (COVID-19) - 9 July 2020
Coronavirus crisis makes dynamic and smart pricing not reliable. Which metrics and tools can you still use to see current patterns and forecast Recovery? - 12 April 2020
Airbnb Management Software for Multi-Property Owners: - 25 February 2019
Jeffrey Messud on growing Xotelia into a leading vacation rental software company - 25 February 2016
James C. Sells demystifies dynamic pricing and has a few actionable tips for vacation rental managers - 5 February 2016
How channel management solution Rentals United helps vacation rental businesses make more bookings - 27 January 2016

Sustainability

Trust & Safety

How to meet growing guest expectations and build trust as a vacation rental professional - 24 November 2021
Airbnb COVID-19 safety practices: Mandatory mask-wearing, social distancing, and 5-step enhancing cleaning process - 15 March 2021
How to prevent parties at vacation rentals (with Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo tips) - 11 December 2020
Vacation rental party prevention: Airbnb gives discounts on monitoring solutions Minut, Roomonitor, and NoiseAware - 14 November 2020
The rise of risky reservations in the vacation rental industry, according to Hostfully, Autohost, and Noiseaware - 6 November 2020
Airbnb wants more reliable guests and imposes new Trust, Health, and Safety standards upon travelers - 29 October 2020
Superhog’s Leo Walton on neutralizing the perils of short-term renting. - 14 October 2020
Noiseaware: Noise monitoring against COVID-19 house parties + Vrbo partnership - 4 October 2020
Overlooked, until it is too late: Talking Short-term Rental Safety with Justin Ford - 4 October 2020
Security, Safety, and Trust: How do Rental Platforms’ Sign-up Pages Reassure Hosts? - 23 September 2020
COVID-19 House parties: Airbnb extends booking restrictions to Spain, France, and UK and launches Summer Safety Campaign - 17 August 2020
Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Trip endorse WTTC’s Safe Travels protocols for Short-Term Rentals - 24 June 2020
TurnoverBNB and Rental Scale-Up release their vacation rental cleaning checklist infographic - 19 June 2020
Property managers found Vrbo’s response to COVID-19 crisis the best, while trust in Airbnb collapses, Survey finds - 19 June 2020
Covid-19: Booking.com rolls out Health, Safety, and Cleaning guidelines and mentions on property pages - 12 June 2020
How to add key Vrbo cleaning practices to your listings - 6 June 2020
Vacation rental Cleanliness: Airbnb’s Cleaning Checklist and Guidelines (COVID-19) - 5 May 2020
Vacation Rental Cleanliness: VRMA launches SafeHome, its own COVID-19 cleaning checklist and guidelines - 5 May 2020
The 24-hour and 72-hour buffers between Stays are the real Health Measures in Airbnb’s “new Enhanced Cleaning Initiative” and “Booking Buffer” - 30 April 2020
Airbnb Trust and Safety Standards for Property Managers: What to Expect in 2020 - 2 February 2020
What are safety and security certifications for short-term rental and serviced apartment properties? How to leverage them to get more Bookings? - 2 February 2020

Vacasa

Is Vacasa’s switch from pure M&A growth to direct homeowner acquisition succeeding? - 17 August 2022

Vacation Rental & Airbnb Management Company

Vacation Rental & Airbnb Vendors

Techsplained, the show that demystifies vacation rental tech - 15 June 2022
Futurestay, the vacation rental software platform for rentalpreneurs, raises $11M - 22 March 2022
How to execute a Homeowner Acquisition Campaign (and when to outsource it to experts) - 2 February 2022
#BookDirect Vendors Unite! The Benefits of Joining Forces to Better Serve the Vacation Rental Industry - 26 January 2022
Product Marketing Case: Property monitoring solution Minut’s market entry into France and Spain - 18 January 2022
How to build and position a vacation rental tech company (with Hostaway CEO Marcus Räder) - 13 January 2022
Does Dynamic Pricing software make you lose control over your business? Beyond answers (Bonus: Why they have a Customer Advisory Board) - 2 November 2021
Pricing, forecasting, and benchmarking: Master the two primary sources of competitive data - 29 March 2021
Vacation rental inventory growth: How Vintory helps VRMs grow their supply - 21 March 2021
Wheelhouse Pro launch: Demo, pricing, & interview with CEO Andrew Kitchell - 16 February 2021
4 vacation rental data specialists predict 2021 travel trends through seven graphs - 1 February 2021
2021 Residential tech for vacation rentals: Cool upgrades to delight guests, beyond smart locks - 1 February 2021
Forecasting 2021 Revenue: Why is it vital for vacation rentals? - 28 December 2020
How to use Etsy to find great-looking Airbnb welcome books, house signs, and printables - 22 November 2020
Mashvisor vs. Airdna: Tools for your Airbnb Investment Property - 22 November 2020
The ultimate commented list of short-term rental and vacation rental podcasts - 6 November 2020
Superhog’s Leo Walton on neutralizing the perils of short-term renting. - 14 October 2020
How vacation rental software companies can grow their business with Romain Giacalone - 14 October 2020
Noiseaware: Noise monitoring against COVID-19 house parties + Vrbo partnership - 4 October 2020
Transparent launches Smart Rental (vacation rental and Airbnb data & analytics) - 23 September 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Consultant Natacha Parmantier on Direct Bookings & Social Media - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Cleaning & Coronavirus: Best Practices for Property Managers - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Technology: When market data reveal dramatic changes - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation rental consultant Adrienne Fors on Channel Managers & PMS - 16 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: AirDNA reviews the dramatic changes in Airbnb market data (COVID-19) - 9 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation rental software provider Guesty on Asia-Pacific market trends - 9 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation rental pricing company PriceLabs reviews market trends in Asia - 8 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Vacation Rental Technology: Self Check-in with igloohome’s Best Haputpong - 8 July 2020
COVID-19 certification for cleaning services: Discover Cristal International Standards, Vrbo’s expert - 3 July 2020
Airbnb Professional Tools: Discover the new Airbnb performance report tab and its Quality metrics - 6 June 2020
Vacation Rental Data Analysis: PriceLabs Launches Market Dashboards - 22 May 2020
Airbnb Data Analytics in London: Comparing data sets from Inside Airbnb, AirDNA, and Airbnb - 4 March 2020
Meet StayFi, a wifi and marketing solution for vacation rental management companies - 4 March 2019
Airbnb Management Software for Multi-Property Owners: - 25 February 2019
Vacation Rental Marketing: How to conduct fast, fun and efficient user research - 8 April 2018
Firebnb – Making your last-minute deals on Airbnb more visible - 8 April 2016
How to maximize your rental revenues with Airdna’s Pricing Copilot - 5 April 2016
How Bnbsitter helps short-term rental owners welcome guests in 3 different European countries - 4 February 2016
5 French Vacation Rental Tech Companies Taking Over Paris and The World - 20 January 2016
The Vacation Rental Formula: Heather Bayer’s New Learning Platform Delivers Real-Life Action Plans - 13 January 2016
Alan Egan on how RentMoreWeeks.com got started - 13 January 2016

Vacation Rental Market

Vacation Rental Owner & Airbnb Host

The Book Direct Blueprint: A Short-Term Rental Guidebook - 23 November 2022
15 things to do today to get more low season vacation rental bookings - 4 January 2021
How To Set Promotions And Discounts On Airbnb - 8 July 2020
Vacation Rental Management Conference: Holiday Rental Mastery author Rex Brown on creating guest loyalty - 8 July 2020
Airbnb Custom Promotions: How To Attract More Bookings With Better Merchandising - 6 July 2020
How to optimize your Airbnb for Summer 2020 travel trends - 6 July 2020
Airbnb hosting cleaning commitment: 5-step protocol, Education & Online Quiz to get the Airbnb Cleaning Highlight - 8 June 2020
Airbnb Professional Hosting Tools: What Property Managers Need to Know - 9 April 2020
How to Set Up and Maximize Your Airbnb Pro Marketing Page - 9 April 2020
“Are you a private or a business host?” asks Airbnb (and soon Booking.com) to comply with EU request - 9 April 2020
GDPR for Vacation Rental Business Entrepreneurs: Quick and Not-So Dirty - 21 May 2018
How vacation rental data can help assess real estate investment opportunities - 4 November 2015
Rental Owners Share Their Proven Tips and Useful Tools + More Rental Marketing Advice - 16 May 2015

Videos

Vrbo

Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking Software Partner Programs: How to Qualify and Should Property Managers Care? - 30 March 2023
Vrbo One Key: A Game-Changing Loyalty Program Boosting Expedia Group’s Brand Synergy - 30 March 2023
Vrbo to Switch to Expedia Group Platform in 2023: Challenges and Opportunities - 23 February 2023
Comparing Airbnb and Vrbo’s Policies on Verifying Guests and Preventing Party Bookings - 12 February 2023
Why it makes sense for Expedia to push individual hosts to Vrbo - 12 February 2023
Airbnb alternatives for hosts: News round-up for Vrbo, Hopper Homes, and Booking.com - 9 November 2022
Why Expedia Group is taking Vrbo’s Trip Boards to Expedia.com and Hotels.com - 31 May 2022
Vrbo’s strengths within the Expedia group: Longer stays over hotels, success in France, Australia, and Brazil. - 31 May 2022
Vrbo: Stock booster for Expedia Group - 9 March 2022
Vrbo Super Bowl commercial: A place for together. - 7 February 2022
2022 US Vacation Rental Trends According to Vrbo - 1 February 2022
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking vs Hopper & Co - 1 December 2021
Vrbo 2022 strategy: Focus on large families, more listings on Expedia and Hotels.com - 17 November 2021
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking: Stealing the best from one another (supply, positioning, pricing) - 12 October 2021
Airbnb, Sonder, and HomeAway’s CEOs on 2021 – 2022 vacation rental trends - 5 October 2021
Expedia Group (EXPE) and its subsidiary Vrbo – Growing Connections - 13 July 2021
7 new Vrbo developments that property managers and hosts should not miss - 2 July 2021
Airbnb vs. Vrbo 2021: 8 industry experts on which channel gets you the most bookings (and why) - 1 July 2021
7 new Vrbo developments that property managers and hosts should not miss - 15 June 2021
Vrbo commercials: After a Long Wait series, with John Legend - 15 June 2021
US vacation rental boom favors Vrbo while Booking.com falls short due to lack of inventory. - 10 May 2021
Vrbo vs Airbnb for hosts: Vrbo claims it is better at generating booking revenues - 5 May 2021
Vrbo Premier Host program: Meaning, How to qualify, and who to contact? - 1 May 2021
Vrbo Fast Start, a program to attract Airbnb Superhosts by solving issues common to all new properties - 30 March 2021
2021, the summer of Vrbo? Impressive US booking data support Expedia Group’s optimism - 14 February 2021
Why the buzz around a Vrbo IPO and why it matters to you - 25 January 2021
Vrbo HomeAway family vacation rental US trends for 2021 - 30 November 2020
Should you list on Airbnb + Booking.com + Vrbo/Expedia? - 15 November 2020
Expedia results confirm crucial role of Vrbo and of short-term rentals - 6 November 2020
What makes a good Vrbo? Discover the top 10 most popular amenities at vacation rentals - 29 October 2020
Family vacation rentals: How to optimize your Vrbo settings to get more bookings - 29 October 2020
Should I list my vacation rental on Expedia? - 20 October 2020
Vrbo commercials reveal its clear focus on family vacation rentals - 20 October 2020
How the COVID-19 crisis helped Expedia Group turn a much-criticized HomeAway into a positively perceived Vrbo - 13 September 2020
How To Sync Your Airbnb Calendar With Vrbo And Booking.Com With ICal - 13 August 2020
Vrbo as the key engine to Expedia Group’s results in Q2 2020. Vrbo brand off to a good start with a lot of direct traffic coming in. Supply may increase as homeowners need to generate money during the COVID recession. - 1 August 2020
Goodbye, HomeAway: The Vrbo brand expands globally, while HomeAway disappears from the US - 26 June 2020
8 ways Vrbo has adapted to post-COVID traveler needs - 25 June 2020
Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Trip endorse WTTC’s Safe Travels protocols for Short-Term Rentals - 24 June 2020
Property managers found Vrbo’s response to COVID-19 crisis the best, while trust in Airbnb collapses, Survey finds - 19 June 2020
Vrbo and HomeAway enforce Mandatory Price Consistency for All Property Managers - 12 June 2020
How to add key Vrbo cleaning practices to your listings - 6 June 2020
Jeff Hurst: vrbo coronavirus policy helped maintain a balanced Marketplace; Dramatic increase in booking volume - 12 May 2020
Vrbo and HomeAway Cleaning Checklist Enhanced to face COVID-19 coronavirus (vacation rental cleanliness) - 11 May 2020
Coronavirus crisis (updated Weekly): Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com’s refund and cancellation policies, travel restrictions, how to price your urban or vacation rental. - 4 March 2020
What ambitious Airbnb property management companies can learn from Phocuswright Europe conference videos featuring Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia - 3 January 2019
Steal these 5 PDFs from HomeAway + More Rental Advice - 9 May 2015

Websites

Unleashing the Power of Heritage Travel and Film Fans: A Guide for Vacation Rental Managers and Airbnb Hosts - 22 March 2023
“Go to Airbnb, pick a niche and execute it 10x better”: When Airbnb’s party ban favors smart entrepreneurs. - 5 July 2022
What is HomeToGo’s “onsite booking” model and how it can help the company compete with Airbnb - 18 April 2022
Inside Hopper Homes: Susan Ho on launching an MVP with 2 million listings and innovating where Airbnb and Booking.com are not - 23 February 2022
U.S. vacation rental market trends with VacayMyWay - 9 February 2022
How Hopper Homes plans to compete with Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia (2022 update) - 27 January 2022
How Houfy is building a Book Direct OTA. - 14 December 2021
StayBillety, the Airbnb alternative for sports events and affinity groups, is raising money - 8 December 2021
Airbnb vs Vrbo vs Booking vs Hopper & Co - 1 December 2021
Plum Guide seeks $1.4m from crowdfunding investors, at $146m valuation - 27 October 2021
HomeToGo’s Bryan Boice on the company’s US strategy - 5 October 2021
FinTech by Booking, Revolut Stays, Dtravel: Payment solution hype vs real-world problems - 27 July 2021
How to use content marketing to build authority and become an Airbnb alternative - 21 July 2021
Hometogo: $1bn value based on booking commissions and software revenues - 20 July 2021
Inclusivity in travel: Fabstayz, a dedicated platform for LGBTQ+ guests - 7 July 2021
How flOasis, a new listing site of unique stays for remote workers, launched in under 12 months - 29 June 2021
Hottest U.S. vacation rental trends for summer 2021 - 21 June 2021
7 things to learn from RedAwning’s plan to make its new owners and managers succeed fast - 17 May 2021
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 1: What does it look like? - 6 April 2021
Smiling House’s Moriya Rockman on the way forward for luxury rental property managers - 25 January 2021
The Ultimate List of Luxury Vacation Rental Websites - 25 December 2020
Accor Apartments & Villas spans 3 short-term rental categories, from economy to luxury. - 15 December 2020
Should you list on Airbnb + Booking.com + Vrbo/Expedia? - 15 November 2020
Inclusive Travel: Booking.com Launches its Travel Proud Program - 23 September 2020
misterb&b, the world’s largest booking platform dedicated to the LGBTQ community and its allies, on raising money, adapting to COVID, and investing in tech. - 10 July 2020
Home-Sharing Platforms You Need to Incorporate into Your Business - 8 August 2016
Niche Vacation Rental Listing Sites: More Bookings, More Independence - 27 March 2016
How to find niche vacation rental listing sites to get more bookings - 25 March 2016
Family Vacation Rentals: How Clanventure can help you get more bookings year round - 25 March 2016
Misterbnb on growing a gay-friendly vacation rental listing site into a global brand - 24 March 2016
BringFido.com : Higher Occupancy and Higher Revenues with Dog-Friendly Vacation Rentals - 24 March 2016
How NicheEscapes.com helps owners reach out to travellers with specific interests - 24 March 2016
How VR owners and managers can improve their listings with Tripping.com, the world’s largest vacation rental search engine - 22 March 2016
23 Experts Weigh In On The Biggest Vacation Rental Website Design Mistakes - 30 September 2015
My experience with OneFineStay, the unhotel, as a Luxury Vacation Rental owner - 9 February 2015