Industry News
Is Vacasa’s switch from pure M&A growth to direct homeowner acquisition succeeding?
What made Vacasa’s stock jump up more than 30% in mid-August 2022? Last June, we reported how the stocks of ...
Booking.com new damage policy discourages hosts from asking for a damage deposit
Booking.com has rolled out a new “damage policy” whose goal is to dissuade hosts from taking damage deposits. Instead, hosts ...
3 dramatically different villa rental market recovery stories: Bali vs Thailand vs Sri Lanka (2022 data)
While the US vacation rental market began booming as soon as the summer of 2020, the European market only started ...
How does the Airbnb search algorithm work?
While it is impossible to list all Airbnb ranking factors, we can briefly show you how search placement and ranking ...
Airbnb Q2 earnings picture a resilient company prioritizing occasional hosts to get through the recession
Airbnb as a resilient company Airbnb’s business model was shaken but then validated by the new ways that guests used ...
PriceLabs: $30M to help property managers better price their listings
PriceLabs, a leading dynamic pricing tool for the short-term rental industry, went from bootstrapping to raising $30m and from figuring ...
Increase your revenues with dynamic cleaning fees (revenue management for vacation rentals)
You probably know the concept of applying dynamic prices to vacation rental rates so that they automatically increase or decrease ...
Airbnb changing its policy on avoidable Host cancellations: Hosts must pay fee from $50 to $1,000 (updated)
(updated on July 27, 2022) Airbnb has announced that, starting August 22, 2022, hosts who cancel a reservation risk paying ...
(US data) Urban short-term rental demand recovering, yet still under 2019 level. International travelers still not fully back.
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a vacation rental boom in the US, with markets in coastal and mountain destinations recording record ...
Add a new revenue stream by creating a “shoppable airbnb”
Do you own a vacation rental or Airbnb? If so, you may be interested in offering “shoppable stays” to your ...
A glimpse at the Guadeloupe and Martinique vacation rental markets with Welcome à la maison
Madly Schenin-King is a female entrepreneur who’s managed to build Welcome à la Maison, the biggest short-term rental industry event ...
Why attend Rent Responsibly’s free educational online conference (July 12 – 13)?
Our partner Rent Responsibly is organizing a free educational conference on July 12 – 13, called the RR Summit. This ...
How you can help shape England’s short-term letting regulations (open consultation)
In its 2021 Tourism Recovery Plan, the English government set out its intention to consider a Tourist Accommodation Registration Scheme. ...
“Go to Airbnb, pick a niche and execute it 10x better”: When Airbnb’s party ban favors smart entrepreneurs.
On June 28, 2022, Airbnb turned its temporary global party ban into a permanent one. The ban was born from ...
2022 Vacation Rental Trends: Sunny days in Europe and US, but what’s next?
Vacation rental data provider AirDNA has used May and June data from Airbnb and Vrbo to look at what Summer ...
What Airbnb horror movies can teach hosts about creating trust with guests
When it comes to hospitality-linked horror movies, hotels had been dominating the screens for years, from Pyscho’s Bates Motel to ...
Short-term rentals for digital nomads: Still a trend to pursue in 2022?
Should all short-term rental managers and owners try and attract digital nomads? At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a ...
2022 Update: Airbnb addresses concerns around listing titles, listing visibility, and categories attributed
Since the release of the Summer 2022 Update, Airbnb hosts have shared recurring concerns about losing control over their listings. ...
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?
As a vacation rental manager, should you see the value of the shares of publicly-traded companies such as Vacasa, Sonder, ...
How to apply for the $10,000,000 Airbnb OMG! Fund (Airbnb Categories series)
Airbnb Categories, the company’s new way to help its users discover new listings and destinations, is at the front and ...
