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.
Professional Photographer advice for vacation rental owners
How do you get the best professional photographs? Is it hit and miss – or is there a sure fire ...
Why I fired a good cleaner
The cleaner I fired A few years back, I had to make a difficult decision when I fired a good ...
What’s in a name? You’d better care!
There’s a great name game going on and it’s serious. This is the great name game: On the one hand, ...
Is Facebook dead for Vacation Rental bookings?
You might be wondering why I haven’t posted an article about social media rccently. It is because I haven’t seen ...
Optimizing your vacation rental for HomeAway
We continue with our series on optimizing your performance on the big listing sites – this week HomeAway. It has ...
Optimising your Vacation Rental for Bookingdotcom
Last week we looked at Airbnb. However this week, we see that Booking.com is a very different business to the ...
Optimising your Vacation Rental for Airbnb bookings
How do you get listed higher in the Airbnb search results? Airbnb doesn’t publish its ranking algorithm, but in general ...
VR Mastery Handbook – Table of Contents
The Vacation Rental Mastery Handbook is due for publication in December 2018. It is currently with the copy editor, and ...
Marketing your vacation rental offline
The VR world doesn’t just live on the internet! If you understand your guest niches really well, you will find ...
100 raving fans are a vacation rental business
So you have given your guests a fabulous experience, and you have a warm relationship. Not all, but some of ...
Vacation rentals likely to benefit from new scrutiny on OTAs
A recent campaign to reduce Online Travel Agency (OTA) dominance has had the beginnings of success in Australia, getting the ...
The best advice I ever received – Go to the Vacation Rental workface
Way back in 1991 I received my best work advice applying to vacation rentals. A visiting Japanese quality guru called ...
Keep your vacation rental knowledge fresh
There is no doubt that the key to vacation rental mastery is knowledge. When we started Sea Zen and attained ...
Increase your vacation rental occupancy by 10% without extra bookings
A lot of vacation rental owners leave money on the table by leaving gaps between bookings. A vacant day here ...
Know more about your Vacation Rental guests than they do themselves
You can know more about your guests’ preferences as a group than they do themselves! Armed with this critical knowledge, you ...
Nobody laughed when I said goodbye to the OTAs
I was interested to see reactions to last week’s article where I explained I had said goodbye to the OTAs ...
I just said goodbye Airbnb and Homeaway and Booking
Last week I started my biggest experiment in 20 years of running a vacation rental. I suspended my Online Travel ...
Harnessing the irrational behaviour of your vacation rental guests
We humans are strange people, we do the strangest things, and we are also culturally programmed to behave irrationally and ...
Your own online booking facility
It really helps if guests can book directly online from your own website. Ten years ago, most guests preferred booking ...
Get to the top of Google for free with Google My Business
Did you know you can get to the top of Google for free? You can use a Google feature called ...
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