How can you attract more digital nomads to your vacation rentals, for instance, to make up for softening demand in the winter months? We’ve read, analyzed, and summarized for you
If you could not attend the 2022 edition of the Vacation Rental World Summit, we’ve selected for you five thought-provoking gems shared by speakers such as AirDNA’s Sarah DuPré, Transparent’s
Booking.com’s new pilot program is a small revolution for the travel platform. In 3 countries, the company currently allows some new properties to offer a “request to book” option. For
High energy costs are hitting consumers and property owners, especially in Nothern Europe. We’ll have a look at some graphs showing the staggering increases in gas and electricity in some
The 2022 FIFA World Cup will take place in Qatar from November 20 to December 18, 2022. In the article below, we’ll look at the graph for the bookings already
If you’re in the vacation rental industry, VRWS 2022 is not an event you want to miss. VRWS 2022 is the Vacation Rental World Summit, and it’s coming up in
In February 2022, Airbnb launched a commercial called Baecation, made of a slideshow of still photos featuring a lovely old couple to the tune of Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s “03′ Bonnie
How has Hopper Homes been performing so far? With more than 1.72 million destinations searched and 800,000 vacation rental listings viewed by users, the 8-month-old vacation rental booking platform has
We’ve already covered how vacation rental managers could use AI-generated text to create more enticing listing descriptions, respond to reviews faster, or write about wide-ranging blog topics. Today, let’s have
PriceLabs, the dynamic pricing and revenue management software company, has acquired Rental Scale-Up. Our team, i.e. Uvika and me, will be joining PriceLabs. We’ll keep on running Rental Scale-Up and
As a short-term rental manager, how can you use demand and supply data to confirm what you see happening in your books or the streets around you? How can you
Are we stuck in a vicious cycle? Airbnb says that people are turning out in droves to become new Airbnb hosts (+50% new hosts in the US in Q2 2022),
There is no doubt that vacation rentals, short-term rentals, and other non-hotel properties are key to Booking.com’s growth. When Booking Holdings revealed its Q2 2022 numbers, it was clear: For
Vacation rental software remains attractive to investors. Guesty announced on August 16, 2022, that it had closed its latest funding round of $170 million. We’ll see that, in 2021 and
What made Vacasa’s stock jump up more than 30% in mid-August 2022? Last June, we reported how the stocks of Sonder, Airbnb, and Vacasa had been down up to -80%
Booking.com has rolled out a new “damage policy” whose goal is to dissuade hosts from taking damage deposits. Instead, hosts can make a claim up until 14 days after guests
While the US vacation rental market began booming as soon as the summer of 2020, the European market only started surging in the summer of 2021. Yet, the Asia-Pacific market
While it is impossible to list all Airbnb ranking factors, we can briefly show you how search placement and ranking influence what prospective guests will see within Airbnb search results.
Airbnb as a resilient company Airbnb’s business model was shaken but then validated by the new ways that guests used the platform. First, the company’s leadership wanted to convey that
PriceLabs, a leading dynamic pricing tool for the short-term rental industry, went from bootstrapping to raising $30m and from figuring out how to price a property to pricing more than
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