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How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 2: Why list with Google?
Getting your vacation rental properties on Google’s Vacation Rentals feature looks very appealing. It promises a new booking source, at ...
How to list on Google Vacation Rentals, Part 1: What does it look like?
Some property managers report getting more than 10% of their bookings from Google’s Vacation Rentals meta-search. In this first article, ...
Email Marketing Tips To Grow Your Direct Bookings: Our Top 10 Strategies
Direct marketing and remarketing are time-tested strategies that have shown consistent results in the travel industry. Collecting customer information to ...
Airbnb Hosting Highlights: Ideas that property managers can steal from Airbnb
When you manage a team, you can motivate your people by giving them positive feedback based on long-term accomplishments, peer ...
Vrbo Fast Start, a program to attract Airbnb Superhosts by solving issues common to all new properties
The battle for vacation rental supply growth is heating up among the big platforms. We’ve already covered how Airbnb was ...
How permanent are the remarkable changes in Airbnb’s listing numbers?
For more than a year now, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered demand patterns across most of the world’s short-term rental ...
Pricing, forecasting, and benchmarking: Master the two primary sources of competitive data
Competitive data in the short-term rental market provides managers answers to important questions regarding their pricing strategy. This type of ...
How property managers can drive direct bookings from repeat guests
A how-to guide for multi-property owners (Part 1 of 2) There’s a lot of discussion in the industry right now ...
How do I make my Airbnb listing better? Update your amenities in 2021
If you have not recently updated the Amenities section of your Airbnb listing, you may be missing out on visibility, ...
Vacation rental inventory growth: How Vintory helps VRMs grow their supply
D. Brooke Pfautz is the founder & CEO of Vintory, a company that helps vacation rental managers grow their inventory. ...
New bookings skyrocketed in February in the US but remained depressed in Europe.
For vacation rentals in the US, on average, February was exceptionally bad in terms of the number of nights stayed, ...
Airbnb COVID-19 safety practices: Mandatory mask-wearing, social distancing, and 5-step enhancing cleaning process
In October 2020, Airbnb rose the bar when it came to COVID-19 safety practices: All Airbnb hosts were required to ...
How Google Analytics 4 Will Enable More Detailed Measurement Of Your Vacation Rental Website
As a vacation rental business owner, it is vital to stay updated with market trends, current technology, and customer preferences. ...
Is it spring yet? HomeToGo and Sykes Holiday Cottages data turn positive
As reported in our analysis of the reservation data pulled by Transparent, the UK saw a surge in bookings starting ...
UK holiday rental reservation boom creates optimism for European holiday rental market
Up until mid-February, the situation between the US and European holiday market could not be more contrasted: in the US, ...
2020 Airbnb earnings reveal keys to its success: A strong brand and a tech platform that attract exclusive individual hosts
How would you explain Airbnb’s resilience in 2020, relative to its competitors? For instance, while Airbnb’s revenues dropped by 22% ...
How to evaluate vacation rental software, with Keystone Awards’ Terry Whyte
Sometimes it might feel like there’s a new vacation rental software out there every day, and let’s be real, this ...
Airbnb Flexible Dates, a search hack that gives more visibility to longer stays
Airbnb’s Flexible Dates new search feature enables guests to focus on WHERE they want to go instead of WHEN they ...
Fully refundable cancellation policies see booking demand at almost the same levels as pre-pandemic
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the requirement for generous cancellation policies has increased dramatically. Guests are demanding flexibility regarding credit, ...
European holiday rental market 2021 perspectives darker than US
How is 2021 shaping up for the European holiday rental market? As travel restrictions are very much in place across ...
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