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COVID-19

Forecasting the Winter Season: Forces at Play in a Pandemic Economy

7 Key Drivers of Destination Travel Scenarios How can destination resorts plan and prepare for the upcoming Winter 2020/2021 season when there are so many...

How To Get Work Done In Chaos

“Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.” – George Peabody, American financier...

Customers Behaving Badly: The Psychology of Changes in Guest Behavior

After the flood of COVID-19 cancellations abated, property managers felt a renewed sense of hope as guests began to rebook vacation rentals destination by...

Vacation Rental Women Professional Development Series: Growing as a Thought Leader with Author and Speaker Amber Hurdle

VRM Intel and the Vacation Rental Women's Summit are presenting a supplemental professional development series in partnership with author and speaker Amber Hurdle titled,...

Booking Pace Snapshots: Examining Year-over-Year Adjusted Occupancy Rates, March through July

As the United States slowly awakened to the reality that COVID-19 was putting a halt on travel, Key Data Dashboard’s Melanie Brown and I...

Restoring Your Pricing Strategy

COVID-19 Road Map to Recovery Key Indicators Travel trends are changing daily as the world navigates through the COVID-19 crisis, especially in the vacation rental...

Scenario Planning: Determine Your Game Plan Using Scenario-Based Forecasting

Determining Your Coronavirus Game Plan As states and nations start reopening their economies, the business world looks a lot different than any of us could...
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Navigating COVID-19: What’s Next in Marketing

The vacation rental industry is a unique market that is constantly in flux, but one thing remains certain: vacation rental companies are as adaptable...

Three VRM Fundamentals That Haven’t Changed: Diversification, Relationships, and Branding

As we come out on the other side of this pandemic and prepare for relaunch, it is important to recognize that there were already...

Dear Vacation Rental Industry: Letters from Vacation Rental Industry Executives

In the vacation rental industry, facing crises is something we do well, from fires and earthquakes to hurricanes and oil spills. However, the seismic...

Airlines Are Not Waiting for a Vaccine. Why are we?

As states are buckling under the economic damage of stay-at-home orders, no industry has felt the effects of this order more than travel. The...

VacationRentPayment/Yapstone’s New Policy Delays Payments to Vacation Rental Managers by 30 days

VacationRentPayment, a Yapstone payment processing facilitator widely used by vacation rental managers and homeowners, is notifying its property management (PM) customers that it will...

Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia: How are vacation rental managers in Oceania and Southeast Asia adapting to COVID-19?

This week, Rental Scale-Up founder Thibault Masson is taking a deep dive into how COVID-19 is affecting holiday home rentals in Southeast Asia and...

Florida opens panhandle’s vacation rentals 72 hours before Memorial Day Weekend kick off. See approved short-term rental plans.

Today, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' office approved the reopening of vacation rentals in panhandle counties: Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Bay, Gulf, Franklin, and...
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Alabama’s tourism economy benefits from Florida Governor DeSantis’ shutdown of vacation rentals

Alabama's tourism economy is getting a boost from Florida’s continued shutdown of vacation rentals as travelers who are unable to stay in vacation homes...

Florida Governor to Counties: Submit a plan for short-term rentals

Today Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced, beginning Monday, the state would move into a "full Phase One," and short-term rentals can reopen if counties...

Airbnb reaches out to city officials to influence “transitional travel reopening plans”

Airbnb's Chris Lehane, vice president of global policy and communications, is reaching out to city officials to influence COVID-19-related reopening policies to "work together...

Airbnb demonstrates lack of strategic thinking in response to COVID-19

Only time will tell how the industry will assimilate the behavior of Airbnb during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the youngest major OTA at the...

What is the cost of Airbnb’s recommended 24- to 72-hour “buffer” time between stays?

Across the vacation rental industry, companies, associations, governments, and destination marketing organizations are proactively assessing new standards and augmented cleaning protocols to ensure guest...

FL Governor DeSantis Receives Demand Letter in Response to Decision to Prohibit Vacation Rentals While Keeping Hotels, Resorts, Timeshares Open

As President Trump continues to hand over decision-making power to individual states during the COVID-19 crisis, US governors find themselves with more executive control...

Hosts launch legal fund for collective action against Airbnb for unilateral refunds and inciting travelers to cancel reservations

Airbnb's home suppliers, or "hosts" using the Airbnb label, are beginning to use legal channels to hold Airbnb accountable for "unilaterally, and in violation...
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10-year anniversary of the BP-Deep Horizon Oil Spill brings comparisons to COVID-19

As the vacation rental industry faces challenges related to the spread of COVID-19, managers on the Gulf Coast are remembering another unanticipated, debilitating event...

VRM Intel Live Online 2-Day Conference for Vacation Rental Managers, April 16 – 17

VRM Intel Live Online, a virtual conference for vacation rental managers, is being held April 16 -17, 2020 with 14 live sessions over the...

Vacation Rental Occupancy Drops for Summer as Coronavirus-Related Shut Down Continues

The economic effects of COVID-19 on vacation rental bookings are being felt across key leisure destinations as shelter-in-place orders, travel restrictions, and beach/ski closings...

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