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.
PriceLabs acquires Rental Scale-Up to deliver more vacation rental insights
PriceLabs, the dynamic pricing and revenue management software company, has acquired Rental Scale-Up. Our team, i.e. Uvika and me, will ...
Do vacation rental data confirm the travel boom in Europe and Booking.com’s good numbers?
As a short-term rental manager, how can you use demand and supply data to confirm what you see happening in ...
Airbnb impact on affordable housing: +50% New hosts in one year, STR bans in tourist destinations
Are we stuck in a vicious cycle? Airbnb says that people are turning out in droves to become new Airbnb ...
Booking.com: 32% of room nights from non-hotels, new features to attract short-term rental hosts.
There is no doubt that vacation rentals, short-term rentals, and other non-hotel properties are key to Booking.com’s growth. When Booking ...
PMS Guesty raises $170M and triples its valuation
Vacation rental software remains attractive to investors. Guesty announced on August 16, 2022, that it had closed its latest funding ...
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 ...
