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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 ...

Airbnb Professional Hosting Tools: What Property Managers Need to Know
If you’ve managed properties on Airbnb for a while, then you’ve noticed how the system is constantly changing and evolving. ...

How to Set Up and Maximize Your Airbnb Pro Marketing Page
Included in Airbnb’s suite of professional hosting tools, along with rule-sets and the multi-calendar, is the pro marketing page. This ...

“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 ...

GETTING YOUR BUSINESS THROUGH THE COVID-19 CRISIS WITH ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS FROM WORLD-CLASS SHORT-TERM AND VACATION RENTAL EXPERTS
Discover how to navigate the coronavirus crisis with data across several urban and resort markets and concrete actions on how ...

Three smart things to do when you have no guests
So what do you do when there are no guests? The pause in bookings may go on for as long ...

Coronavirus and Airbnb: “More Flexible Reservations” to balance the needs of guests and Hosts
On March 10, Airbnb introduced “More flexible reservations”, an upcoming package of tools and programs whose goal is to better ...

Maximising short term rental bookings during Coronavirus uncertainty
Everyone is uncertain about travel right now. No one really knows how the coronavirus will affect them. Should I take ...

Vacation Rental Data and Charts show that coronavirus has biggest impact on bookings in Europe (vs US), in urban areas, for the next 30 days. Drive-to destinations to fare better.
Why do property managers in traditional resort areas in the US seem less worried about the impact of the COVID-19 ...