Thibault Masson

Vacation Rental Data Analysis: PriceLabs Launches Market Dashboards
Wondering what’s happening in your market – or perhaps markets where you’re considering a new investment? PriceLabs, known for their ...

Vacation Rental Cleanliness: We compare 6 vacation rental cleaning checklists for you
Keeping your short-term rentals clean is both a challenge and a necessity as a property manager. If a guest notices ...

Demand data show Why to advertise Your vacation rental property To domestic travelers for Summer 2020
Summer 2020 is not going to be great for many vacation rental managers and owners. Several Airbnb property management companies, ...

Call for Speakers: South-East Asia & Oceania holiday rental, Villa, and Apartment experts
Do you want to be a speaker at Rental Scale-Up’s next conference: “How villa and apartment managers are navigating the ...

Jeff Hurst: vrbo coronavirus policy helped maintain a balanced Marketplace; Dramatic increase in booking volume
Vrbo’s Jeff Hurst sent an optimistic message to Vrbo and HomeAway partners: He said that Vrbo had trusted its partners ...

Vrbo and HomeAway Cleaning Checklist Enhanced to face COVID-19 coronavirus (vacation rental cleanliness)
The vacation rental cleanliness topic is a hot one, as travel bans get lifted across the world. We have already ...

Vacation rental Cleanliness: Airbnb’s Cleaning Checklist and Guidelines (COVID-19)
Airbnb published in April recommendations for hosts regarding the cleanliness of listings in a COVID-19 world. This Airbnb Cleaning Checklist ...

Vacation Rental Cleanliness: VRMA launches SafeHome, its own COVID-19 cleaning checklist and guidelines
The Vacation Rental Housekeeping Professionals (VRHP), a subsidiary of the Vacation Rental Management Association (VRMA), has developed expanded recommendations for ...

Summer 2020 according to Carlos Villaro Lassen of the European Holiday Home Association: Drive-to destinations, closed or open borders, uncertainty. Why local property managers should unite, while hotels are lobbying against them
During our free online conference “Local Property Managers vs Global Coronavirus Epidemic“, 14 speakers shared their experience of getting vacation ...

How to avoid fear and take action: Create Vacation Rental Property Managers Can Create A crisis plan, cut costs, adapt to longer stays, and negotiate with homeowners
During our free online conference “Local Property Managers vs Global Coronavirus Epidemic“, 14 speakers shared their experience of getting vacation ...

The 24-hour and 72-hour buffers between Stays are the real Health Measures in Airbnb’s “new Enhanced Cleaning Initiative” and “Booking Buffer”
(This article is part of our series: Vacation rental safety & is Airbnb safe?) To get travelers to trust the ...

Are Vacation Rental bans here to stay? How are OTAs enforcing them?
After massive refunds and cancellations, vacation rental managers and short-term rental operators are facing another source of adverse winds: Bans ...

AJL PROFITABILITY HUB, Simon Lehmann’s online vacation rental conference with 9 experts
Simon Lehmann, CEO of AJL Consulting, is launching a free online conference on April 15th, 2020 at 5:30 PM CET. ...

Join Rental scale-Up and support “To Guests, With Love”, a fun initiative to unite and promote the vacation rental industry
To Guests, With Love, is a fun initiative to unite and promote the vacation rental industry with an uplifting video. If ...

Coronavirus crisis makes dynamic and smart pricing not reliable. Which metrics and tools can you still use to see current patterns and forecast Recovery?
How can help you feel a bit more in control when it comes to understanding the current demand and forecasting ...

Airbnb Monthly Stays, the Airbnb feature eclipsed by the Online Experiences hype
On April 9, Airbnb’s homepage changed and revealed 2 new product categories: Next to the usual “Places To Stay” and ...

“Are you a private or a business host?” asks Airbnb (and soon Booking.com) to comply with EU request
Airbnb and Booking.com have agreed to ask, respectively, Airbnb hosts and Booking partners whether or not they are professionals in ...

Coronavirus insights from Vacation rental & Airbnb data (US, Europe, Asia) + Forecasted Demand Trends
Here’s an updated version of our March 8 article “Vacation Rental Data and Charts show that coronavirus has biggest impact ...

How vacation rental managers can take advantage of the $2tr stimulus Loans and package
All over the world, local and national governments have taken relief measures to help big and small businesses survive the ...

Airbnb extends Extenuating circumstances until May 31, Pushes for Airbnb Travel Credit, while promising $260M in help to hosts
While most hosts were busy looking at Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky’s live stream, where he promised to give back $260 ...