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.
Why cleaning fees have increased by more than 33% during the pandemic
In May 2021, Airbnb rushed to promise to give full transparency on its cleaning fee, after Twitter and the media ...
Short-term rental data: Super-seasonal Europe breaking records in July and August, but lagging behind the US
During the 2021 edition of the Vacation Rental World Summit, short-term rental data provider AirDNA presented a study of the ...
Oliver’s Travels founder on growing a leading luxury villa rental company
Oliver Bell, the founder of Oliver’s Travels, one of the biggest British villa rental companies, tells Rental Scale-Up how he ...
What makes Gîtes de France and its network of 48,000 properties a powerful force within the French holiday rental market?
If you are French or a Western European traveller, you may have met the word “gîte” before. It is a ...
Airbnb Safety updates: New measures around Guest Safety and Party Prevention
In recent weeks, Airbnb has released new data and features to increase trust and safety on its platform. First, Airbnb ...
US vacation rentals: Booking.com spending money on TV, travel credits, and lower partner commissions (late summer push)
A few weeks ago, we published a deep-dive into Booking.com’s difficulties with cracking the US vacation rental market, in terms ...
Property management can be a headache – Not with Guesty
Complex operational needs that property managers face on a daily basis – from guest communication to task assignment to payment ...
GuestReady raises €1.5+M in second Seedrs crowdfunding campaign
GuestReady, a European property management company, has already raised more than €1.5M ($1.8M) on the equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs, a ...
8 industry experts share tips for growing your vacation rental property inventory
There is a reason why the vacation rental industry landscape has been a hotbed of acquisition activity all of 2021. ...
VTrips CEO Steve Milo on prioritising profitability in property management acquisitions
Investment activity in the short-term rental industry continues to gather momentum, and recently VTrips has been at the center of ...
Case study: How DPGO wants to shake up the STR dynamic pricing market
For a long time, the list of short-term rental dynamic pricing vendors was rather stable, with BeyondPricing and PriceLabs leading ...
Airbnb MultiFamily Home Sharing Redux: Will the RealPage Migo partnership fare better than Niido and Pillow in the quest to create Airbnb-friendly buildings?
As we mentioned in our article about long stays, Airbnb is renewing its efforts to capture a slice of the ...
Long stays: Airbnb renews efforts to capture slices of housing, real estate rental, and corporate stay markets. But why are room nights flat?
Since the onset of the pandemic, Airbnb had claimed that people were not just traveling, but also living and working ...
Going beyond smart monitoring devices for vacation rental hosts with NoiseAware
For an increasing number of vacation rental hosts, the fallout of not having a smart monitoring device installed is proving ...
How Much Should You Pay Your Vacation Rental Cleaners?
Vacation rental bookings on Airbnb are up 320% since last summer. The expansion of online accommodation sites such as Airbnb, ...
Q2 2021 Airbnb earnings: A unique moment in time when it closed in on giant OTAs like Booking?
Last week, Airbnb released its commercial and financial results for the second quarter (Q2) of 2021. We’ll look at the ...
Radical Storage: Simplifying luggage storage for vacation rental guests
Which vacation rental owner or manager is a stranger to those all too common requests for late checkouts? There are ...
Addicted to peddling discounted hotel rooms, can Booking.com ever fix its US vacation rental supply and demand issues? (Booking Holdings Q2 results)
Looking at the freshly published Booking Holdings Q2 2021 financial results, online travel agency Booking.com is confirming its image as ...
BookingSync and Smily’s Sebastien Grosjean on why he is looking forward to VRWS 21
As September 16-17, 2021 inch closer, the excitement among the attendees of the 2021 iteration of the Vacation Rental World ...
Use Case: How we used Instagram marketing to generate 500+ leads for our vacation rental business
Instagram is a powerful marketing channel for travel brands. But when you get started, you are faced with a unique ...
