Plum Guide (plumguide.com), one of the leading luxury vacation rental distribution channels, has just launched a crowdfunding campaign. The London-based company is hoping to raise £1m (€1.19m / $1.38m) in
A recent study of 127,183 Airbnb complaints on Twitter has caught the attention of many Airbnb hosts and property managers. While our Rental Scale-Up team found interesting insights from this massive research effort,
Airbnb, Booking, and Vrbo are busy finding ways to take the thunder away from each other. Vrbo wants Airbnb’s supply. Airbnb wants Vrbo’s large vacation rentals and Booking.com’s low prices.
Make your voice heard. It is crucial and easy to do. The European Union has plans to simplify short-term rental regulations across Europe, and you can influence the outcome by
Skift’s Global Forum is one of the most respected travel conferences in the world. It is a great place to hear industry leaders and researchers share data and insights about
Hopper, a fast-growing OTA, is building Hopper Homes, its product and service offer for the vacation rental market. Our Rental Scale-Up team looked at recent data, current product offers, and
In May 2021, Airbnb rushed to promise to give full transparency on its cleaning fee, after Twitter and the media got angry at the “ridiculous” level of cleaning fees on
Oliver Bell, the founder of Oliver’s Travels, one of the biggest British villa rental companies, tells Rental Scale-Up how he has grown the company, how COVID-19 impacts his business, what
If you are French or a Western European traveller, you may have met the word “gîte” before. It is a self-catering holiday cottage, 80% of the time located in a
A few weeks ago, we published a deep-dive into Booking.com’s difficulties with cracking the US vacation rental market, in terms of supply and demand. Booking Holdings’ leadership said that “it’s
GuestReady, a European property management company, has already raised more than €1.5M ($1.8M) on the equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs, a few days into its campaign. The initial goal was to
Investment activity in the short-term rental industry continues to gather momentum, and recently VTrips has been at the center of it. VTrips is a property management company from Jacksonville, Florida
As we mentioned in our article about long stays, Airbnb is renewing its efforts to capture a slice of the housing market. In turn, how can real estate businesses and
Since the onset of the pandemic, Airbnb had claimed that people were not just traveling, but also living and working at airbnbs. The company has been recording a higher share
Vacation rental bookings on Airbnb are up 320% since last summer. The expansion of online accommodation sites such as Airbnb, VRBO, and others introduced a need for short-term rental cleaners
Last week, Airbnb released its commercial and financial results for the second quarter (Q2) of 2021. We’ll look at the data, go over what CEO Brian Chesky said during the
Looking at the freshly published Booking Holdings Q2 2021 financial results, online travel agency Booking.com is confirming its image as a recovering travel platform, with deals, promotions, and loyalty schemes
Vacasa, the leading property management company in North America, representing 30,000 properties, is to go public in Q4 2021 through a merger with a public company. We’ve already looked at
Airbnb hosts can now test their wifi speed, see the results, and get their listing updated accordingly, straight from the Airbnb app. We show you how to do it and
A company’s mission statement says a lot about how it sees itself, how it wants others to see it, where it is now, and where it wants to go. Much
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