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Riding the Next Wave of Vacation Rental Consolidation

As the industry hits its third wave of maturity, thereโ€™s a renewed focus on consolidation. Vacasa continues acquiring vacation rental managers at a rapid...

Summer 2019: Vacation Rental Performance in NC, SC, AL and FL Panhandle

Average Daily Rates Are Up, But Overall Occupancy Rates Are Down At VRM Intel, we have been a long-time strong advocate for comparative data in...

Trust Flow Matters

Expediaโ€™s recent revenue miss is flushing out the true state of OTAs as it relates to our industry. Doing away with the HomeAway brand...

Whatโ€™s Going on with Google and Vacation Rentals?

What if the Only Website You Ever Needed for Travel Booking was Google.com? Related: Before you read this, check out: Google Adds Vacation Rentals   By Susan...

Direct Booking Case Study: How a Destin VRM Reduced Dependence on the OTAs by 52 Percent in Only Eight Months

These Vacation Rental Managers Are Winning against the OTAs! Nancy Fox and Larry Synder have a strong sense of their brand, their guests, and what...

Rethinking Communication for Smoother Operations and a Better Guest Experience

With the push for quality and rising expectations of property owners and guests, vacation rental managers are working harder than ever. The job requires...

How to Start a Podcast

Boost Your Influence with a Travel Podcast Around 48 million Americans listen to podcasts every week. By any measure, thatโ€™s a lot of listeners. As...
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Google Adds Vacation Rentals to Hotel Search

Google has officially jumped into the vacation rental industry, leading to both excitement and trepidation among rental providers. To be quite candid, much is unknown....

The Future of Brand Marketing

Expanding the Radius of Your Brand with Like-Minded Brand Amplification As we close out the first quarter of 2019, we are seeing continued changes that...

Girl, Fix Your Website

Like thousands of ladies across the world, I thoroughly enjoyed Rachel Hollisโ€™s book, Girl, Wash Your Face. If youโ€™ve never read the book, it...

Next Level Revenue Management from Red Awning’s Heather Richer

A Hotel Veteranโ€™s Perspective             After working in the boutique hotel world for over 15 years with a specific focus on revenue management and distribution, I...

Online ROI Rescue: Using Google Analytics for Greater Success

Data. Analytics. Conversions. Oh My! If you are walking precariously along the yellow brick road of vacation rental marketing, these words are as scary as...

Northeast Vacation Rental Professionals (NEVRP) partners with Fetch My Guest to launch NorthEastStays.com

NorthEastStays.com Released at Annual Conference on April 2nd.  Member companies can now advertise their properties directly to vacation rental travelers to drive more direct...

The Transformation of Todayโ€™s Vacation Rental Industry: What is going on out there? By Simon Lehmann

If you can keep track of everything that is happening in our fast-transforming vacation rental industry, then you are a genius. Letโ€™s face it, for...
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VRM Intel’s Spring Issue is Heading Your Way

  The latest issue of VRM Intel Magazine is at the printer and heading your way soon, and here is a link to the digital...

Expedia’s rebrand of VRBO to Vrbo leads to feedback and questions about the HomeAway brand

Today, Expedia announced that it has rebranded VRBO.com to Vrbo.com and asks consumers to pronounce the marketplace name going forward as โ€œver-bohโ€ instead of...

5 Ways Vacation Rental Managers Can Increase Direct Bookings

On the second #BookDirect Day in 2019, over 5 million travelers received emails with a social reach of 50 million+. about the advantages of...

Making the case for Condo Hotels: Condo Hotels Seek Their Own Category

By John Dalton Only a small percentage of the traveling public knows condo hotels exist. Many tourism insiders are unaware of the category, while others...

Distribution Strategiesโ€”The Big Picture

I once spoke at VRMA conferences about the changes, expense, and reality of OTAs coming into the vacation rental industry. Now we look back...

Maximize Revenue with Transactional Content

Content can often feel overwhelming to produce, but when written with intent, vacation rental managers have the incredible opportunity to boost their brand, integrate...

Unlocking Travel for All: How VillaKey is Making Vacations Accessible for Families with Autism

โ€œI got an opportunity just a couple weeks ago to spend some time with one of our families in Orlando,โ€ said Alice Horn, founder...
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Embracing the end-to-end guest experience: How Leslie Preston built Bachcare, New Zealandโ€™s largest property management company

In 2003, Leslie Preston bought a vacation rental home in Hahei, New Zealand, a small beach community in the Coromandel region. When she began...

The Opportunities In Between: Capturing the Niche Markets Others Donโ€™t

Thereโ€™s an old Irish blessing that goes, โ€œMay the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in itโ€ (or so the...

Niche Vacation Rental Listing Sites

As a landslide of new technology and OTA expansion barrels down the slopes of the vacation rental industry, some opportunities for growth become buried...

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