Thibault Masson

Vacation rental pros depend less on Airbnb as they grow; PMS and dynamic pricing key to tech stack
Hostfully, a provider of property management software and guest guidebooks for the short-term rental industry, has released the 2022 edition ...

E.U.: VAT added to all STR stays, collected by Airbnb and other platforms. +20% on stays by 2025?
The European Commission’s proposal clarifies definitively that the short-term rental of accommodation is not exempt from VAT (value-added tax) in ...

Soaring energy costs push vacation rental owners and property managers to act on sustainability (but many think that traveler behavior is too hard to change)
Short-term rental managers are taking action to save on energy costs and thus help with environmental issues. Surprisingly, property owners ...

How vacation rental managers can leverage AI text generators for travel and tourism
How can artificial intelligence help vacation rental managers and Airbnb hosts save time and achieve better results? On Rental Scale-Up, ...

The Airbnb-friendly marketplace lets renters can find a place to live and then airbnb it part-time (i.e., the Airbnb Resident Hosting program)
Airbnb has launched a marketplace of Airbnb-friendly apartments in 175 buildings in 25+ markets across the US. This is not ...

Airbnb Setup: How the company wants to help millions of new hosts “Airbnb it”
Airbnb wants people to do more than consider listing their place on its platform. The company wants to actively help ...

Airbnb alternatives for hosts: News round-up for Vrbo, Hopper Homes, and Booking.com
Vrbo (Expedia Group), Hopper, and Booking.com (Booking Holdings) have recently disclosed business and financial data. We’ve collected the most interesting ...

#AirbnBUST: Will Airbnb’s 2022 Winter Release aggravate hosts’ fears about oversupply?
Is the #Airbnbust upon us? Is it even a real thing? While Airbnb has reported in Q3 2022 its strongest ...

Lodgify raises $30M while focusing on the long tail of STR hosts
Vacation rental SaaS startup Lodgify has just raised $30m in Series B funding. The solution acts as an online PMS ...

Brian Chesky & Fees: Airbnb to display total “all-in” price to fight against perception it’s become unaffordable
As we predicted last week, Airbnb will make prices more transparent to its users starting in December. Why is this ...

Takeaways from the 2022 VRMA International conference in Las Vegas
From October 23 to 26, I attended the 2022 VRMA International conference. It’s one of the biggest and most influential ...

Booking.com’s U.S. strategy for vacation rentals
Every year, it is interesting to sit at Booking.com’s VRMA presentation to learn what the Amsterdam-based OTA wants to tell ...

Airbnb 2022 Winter Release
On November 16, 2022, Airbnb unveiled its Airbnb 2022 Winter Release. This Release is a mixed bag: Some improvements are ...

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