Industry News
Stay informed on the latest developments in the vacation rental and short-term rental industry. This category provides vacation rental managers and short-term rental managers with news on industry growth, trends, events, and insights into the future of short-term rental property management. From major updates across European markets to professional insights into industry shifts, explore the news shaping the landscape of vacation rentals.
EU Reaches Common Position on Short-Term Rental Regulation
On Thursday, March 2, the European Ministers for Competitiveness agreed on a plan to regulate how data is collected and ...
How A.I. is revolutionizing short-term rental management for increased efficiency and bookings
The mere mention of A.I. can sometimes invoke wariness and even fear among short-term rental hosts and managers who worry ...
Vrbo to Switch to Expedia Group Platform in 2023: Challenges and Opportunities
In 2023, vacation rental booking platform Vrbo will be switching to Expedia Group’s platform. This move presents both challenges and ...
Airbnb Plus and Luxe in 2023: A Comeback Story for Premium Stays?
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, Airbnb made the difficult decision to pause two of its ambitious ...
Decoding Airbnb’s strategic priorities for 2023
While commenting on its 2022 financial results, its first-ever profitable year, Airbnb uncovers its three strategic priorities for 2023: In ...
Airbnb Attains Yearly Profitability for First Time in 2022, Breaking Records With Most Profitable Quarter Ever
During the fourth quarter of 2022, Airbnb reported a net income of $319 million, its most profitable quarter ever. Compared ...
Comparing Airbnb and Vrbo’s Policies on Verifying Guests and Preventing Party Bookings
Airbnb and Vrbo have recently been in the news for presenting some of their measures to better protects hosts. As ...
Why it makes sense for Expedia to push individual hosts to Vrbo
Recently, there were murmurs that Expedia was set to remove vacation rentals from its website. But according to travel publication ...
booking.yeah doesn’t work, but Booking doubles down for Super Bowl 2023 with Melissa McCarthy
For the second year, Booking.com is releasing a Super Bowl ad. In 2022, its ad featured Idris Elba and relaunched ...
ChatGPT Prompts for Vacation Rental Managers: Combine content, SEO, and formatting
We’ve already covered how vacation rental managers can leverage A.I .text-generators for travel and tourism. As the weeks go by, ...
Short Term Rental Operators Leverage Sustainability Badges to Maximize Clicks and Bookings
The Pursuit of Sustainability: Accommodations and Travelers Show Interest Booking.com’s research reveals an appetite for sustainability on both the traveler ...
Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Tripadvisor Join Forces to Showcase Historical Rise of European Short-Term Rental Markets
Airbnb, Booking, Expedia, and Tripadvisor have teamed up with the European Union to provide exclusive monthly statistics on short-term accommodation ...
Evaluating the Evidence: A Closer Look at Data Provided by Airbnb on New Hosts’ Success
Airbnb’s recent “Airbnb It” advertising campaign has been designed to convince more people to become hosts on their platform. The ...
2023 Airbnb Commercials: Occasional hosts, airbnb it and get paid!
Over a decade ago, Airbnb’s first hosts were early adopters eager to be the first to join the Airbnb network. ...
Airbnb 2023 strategy playbook
What will Airbnb’s strategy be in 2023? We’ll first look at what Airbnb could take from 2022 and carry over ...
EnviroRental: A sustainability resource designed with short-term rental businesses in mind
It has become increasingly clear lately that the short-term rental industry must recognize the importance of sustainability initiatives and strive ...
Airbnb tells EU also to include Google Travel in upcoming European short-term rental regulations
When responding to the EU’s plan for continent-wide regulations and data-sharing duties for short-term rental platforms, Airbnb asked the Commission ...
Airbnb’s big stick: 4,000 hosts suspended for discrimination, 340,000 guest bookings blocked on New Year’s Eve
When a big company runs an international platform, it must ensure that users are treated fairly and not subject to ...
HomeToGo Modes launching in 2023
On December 20, 2022, HomeToGo‘s CEO Patrick Andrae announced the upcoming launch of HomeToGo Modes. The company says that is ...
How to predict short-term rental demand 2023
As a short-term rental pro, you do not want to miss out on future demand peaks: You risk getting bookings ...
