Commissions from selling travel insurance products provide a significant source of ancillary revenue for vacation rental managers.
Over the last decade, travel insurance representatives taught...
The Florida Vacation Rental Managers Association and the Central Florida Vacation Rental Managers Association have joined together to create the 2014 VRM Xtravaganza, August 20-22...
Earlier this week Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN) named Marriott's Mary Lynn Clark as President, Wyndham Vacation Rentals North America following the resignation of current...
Across Florida, thousands of lodgings offer 370,000 rooms to Florida’s 95-million annual visitors.
Last year, only 132 lodgings, including all of Beach Vacation Rental’s properties,...
You’re invited to Tampa, FL on September 23 and 24, 2014 for Pro Resort Housekeeping’s 6th Annual Laundry/Linen seminar.
As usual, this seminar is for managers...
The effort the big distribution players are putting into improving the conversion rates on their listing pages provides property managers with areas of opportunity....
PMT, Property Manager Tools, the leader in automated quote responder technology, has launched their “Click and Go” Mobile Guest App for the vacation rental...
Here are special offers from vacation rental vendors:
TruPlace Floor Plan Tours -$40 off interactive floor plan tours
Late Summer Special: Order floor plan tours before...
What are vacation rental managers doing to optimize their property pages for better conversion? We reached out to several website designers in the vacation...
Vacation rental distribution sites, such as HomeAway, FlipKey and Airbnb, spend a significant amount of time and money testing and optimizing the design of...
The Metropolitan Planning Commission postponed a recommendation on whether to establish a definition for short-term residential rentals in the city's zoning ordinance, a change...
How many professional vacation rental managers are in the U.S.? This question arises often at VRM Intel. Due to varying definitions of second homes,...
Vacation rental managers who collect accurate data and learn to use their data in real-time for marketing, reservations, rate management and intelligent business decisions...
Brad Callahan, founder and president at Travel Advantage Network (TAN), needed vacation rental inventory in Ocean City, MD, to meet membership demand. After working...
2014 has already seen key acquisitions by growing vacation rental management companies, with several big announcements on the way. Late last year, Wyndham purchased...
Amy Hinote is the founder and editor of VRM Intel which provides news and education for the rapidly expanding professionally managed vacation rental industry....
Airbnb, HomeAway and TripAdvisor have joined Travel Tech and moved the management of the Short Term Rental Advocacy Center (STRAC) under the Travel Tech...
HomeAway today named Visa's Mariano Dima as chief marketing officer (CMO). In this position, Dima will oversee all global marketing, corporate communications and brand initiatives.
As...
HDR Photography or, what's commonly referred to as 'Fusion' photography, is ranking very high on the popularity chart nowadays.
For those of you unfamiliar, HDR...