Vacation Rental Market
Explore the global vacation rental market with insights into top regions like the US vacation rental market and the European vacation rental market, alongside platform performance from Airbnb, Booking.com, and Vrbo. This category provides vacation rental managers and short-term rental managers with essential data on market share, emerging trends, and the best markets for growth, helping you make informed investment and strategy decisions.

Cashing in on the Coronation: How Key Events Increase Short-Term Rental Profitability
In the ever-expanding realm of short-term rentals, events serve as powerful catalysts for boosting profitability among property managers and hosts. ...

Thanksgiving 2022 saw guests book earlier; ADRs skyrocket for the holiday season
The upcoming holiday season is shaping up to be one of the most expensive yet for North American and European ...

European booking trends show worrying signs for Winter 2022-23 after a soft September
For short-term rental operators in Europe, the Summer of 2022 was fantastic, with demand finally surpassing 2019 levels. Yet, the ...

(US data) Urban short-term rental demand recovering, yet still under 2019 level. International travelers still not fully back.
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a vacation rental boom in the US, with markets in coastal and mountain destinations recording record ...

2022 Vacation Rental Trends: Sunny days in Europe and US, but what’s next?
Vacation rental data provider AirDNA has used May and June data from Airbnb and Vrbo to look at what Summer ...

What companies do Sykes own? A quick recap after a new string of acquisitions.
Sykes Holiday Cottages has been on an acquisition spree as of late, scooping up a number of smaller companies in ...

How to pick and enter a new vacation rental market (for property managers)
If you’re a vacation rental manager, it’s important to know how to pick the right market to enter. In this ...

Vacation rental data: Has tourism become hyperseasonal in Europe? After a longer summer peak, is demand about to plunge again?
Our vacation rental data partner AirDNA has shared with us a treasure trove of charts, graphs, and, analytics about the ...

Short-term rental supply drops by 75% in key cities. Are black sheep gone? Airbnb reacting by working with cities and pushing its non-urban “unique stays“ narrative, despite the meager listing numbers.
COVID-19 run ruined into international and domestic demand, but new regulations have kicked in. For instance, on October 1, 2021, the number of listings in Amsterdam dropped by 78%, after platforms started enforcing mandatory registrations. It was a 13,000 drop in listings for just Airbnb. The story is the same from Prague to Vienna, Barcelona to Budapest.

No Vacancy | Record-High Vacation Rental Bookings Leave Vacation Rental Managers with No Supply
Travel Trends: What Do High Vacation Rental Bookings Mean For Family Vacations and Property Managers Across the United States? Key ...

Asia-Pacific: SE Asia villa market slumps (-66% in Bali), while Australia booms (+80% in Byron Bay)
While data about the surge in vacation rental bookings in the US abound, fewer reports are available about other regions. ...

Vacation rental industry M&A (mergers and acquisitions) activity on the rise in 2021
Investors are still pouring money into the vacation and short-term rental industry in 2021. While many property management and tech ...

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 ...

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, ...

How to track the recovery of vacation rentals 2021
This month we at Hostaway had a webinar with our partner PriceLabs regarding 10 ways to adjust your prices in ...

2021 vacation rental trends for the industry and your market
After looking at 2020 through data and graphs from Google Trends, our team assesses here a few trends (predictions?) for ...

AirDNA review: Better pricing and pacing data with My Properties and Comp Set
How to leverage AirDNA‘s new “My Properties” and “Comp Set” features to finetune your listing rates? How can you start ...

Vrbo HomeAway family vacation rental US trends for 2021
What can vacation rental owners and managers take away from Vrbo’s 2021 travel trend report? A first insight is that, ...

Summer 2020 vacation rental trends: France manages to lower the COVID-19 blow, while Italy, Portugal, and especially Spain are hit harder
Southern Europe is a big market for vacation rentals: Chalets in the French Alps, old farmhouses in Tuscany, villas on ...

Summer 2020 Trends: Rural places, cabins, Cottages, Private pools and “vacation rentals near me”.
In a previous article about Summer 2020 vacation rental recovery, we had shown you that searches on Google for terms ...