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.
Niche Vacation Rental Listing Sites: More Bookings, More Independence
Vacation rental owners and managers want to find niche vacation rental listing sites for several reasons, such as getting more ...
How to find niche vacation rental listing sites to get more bookings
Searching and finding niche vacation rental sites for your properties should not be a time-consuming chore. But if you just use ...
Family Vacation Rentals: How Clanventure can help you get more bookings year round
Vacation rentals seem like a natural fit for families who need 2, 3 or more bedrooms when traveling. Yet, it ...
Misterbnb on growing a gay-friendly vacation rental listing site into a global brand
MisterBnB.com helps travelers find gay-friendly vacation and short-term rentals. This is a great example among niche vacation rental listing sites, ...
BringFido.com : Higher Occupancy and Higher Revenues with Dog-Friendly Vacation Rentals
Melissa Halliburton is the founder of BringFido.com, a dog travel directory that lists 14,000+ dog-friendly vacation rentals and offers the ...
How NicheEscapes.com helps owners reach out to travellers with specific interests
When you own a holiday property that can be seen as “niche”, it can be frustrating to find the right ...
How VR owners and managers can improve their listings with Tripping.com, the world’s largest vacation rental search engine
Only 22% of existing vacation rentals are listed with the big listing sites (e.g. HomeAway, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Booking.com, etc.). So, ...
Facebook Remarketing for Vacation Rentals: My VRMA Europe presentation
I was lucky and happy to be invited as a speaker to the annual European VRMA (Vacation Rental Manager Association) ...
Jeffrey Messud on growing Xotelia into a leading vacation rental software company
France is a huge market for the vacation rental industry and you may have read on this blog that French ...
Facebook Ad Goals Explained For Vacation Rentals
The world of Facebook ads is very complex compared to running Google AdWords or Bing Ads. While those platforms relatively ...
James C. Sells demystifies dynamic pricing and has a few actionable tips for vacation rental managers
Why is it that, as vacation rental managers and owners, we sometimes feel intimated when we hear words like “yield ...
How Bnbsitter helps short-term rental owners welcome guests in 3 different European countries
Multiple services have sprung up around Airbnb, for instance companies that relieve hosts from checking in and out guests, as well ...
How channel management solution Rentals United helps vacation rental businesses make more bookings
Rentals United is a channel management solution: It helps connect the inventory of a vacation rental management company with booking sites ...
5 French Vacation Rental Tech Companies Taking Over Paris and The World
I recently attended a low-key, but super cool and very interesting, meetup called VR Tech Paris. Created and hosted by Vanessa de ...
The Vacation Rental Formula: Heather Bayer’s New Learning Platform Delivers Real-Life Action Plans
Heather and Mike Bayer are respected experts within the vacation rental industry. In early 2016, they released The Vacation Rental Formula, ...
Alan Egan on how RentMoreWeeks.com got started
If you’ve been a vacation rental owner for a while, you’ve probably come across RentMoreWeeks.com, an online publication whose goal is ...
Vacation Rental Marketing: How to create a lead magnet to get more email signups
If you are a member of the RentalScaleup Club (It’s free to join!), you may have already watched a video where ...
Instagram for vacation rentals: How to market your vacation rental property business
Should I use Instagram for vacation rentals? The global popularity of the photo-sharing platform is undisputable. Instagram has more than ...
How vacation rental data can help assess real estate investment opportunities
How can you use rental vacation revenues to guide your real estate investment decisions? This was a great conversation topic ...
Instagram for vacation rentals: My resource list
What tools and techniques am I using to grow my Instagram account? This is a question I’ve been asked several ...
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