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Heart Versus Technology in the Vacation Rental Business

I’ve been thinking about this topic for a couple of weeks and wanted to share it with you. As a service provider in the...

Trip Insurance: To Offer or Not to Offer?

"Offering trip insurance protects your guests, safeguards your homeowners, and increases your bottom line." Vacation rental property managers who offer trip cancellation insurance to their...

Vacation Rental Road Trip: 12 Months: 12 Fabulous Homes-Away-from-Home

Halloween 2014, an early Chicago snow left powdery flakes on my Hyundai as I packed to leave on a year-long Vacation Rental Road Trip....

A Conversation with Jim Olin

A leader in the vacation rental industry for close to 30 years, Jim is the former CEO of Abbott Resorts, ResortQuest, and Sterling Resorts....

Third Party Distribution Channels: The Changing Landscape of Third Party Booking Channels

Love them or hate them, third party distribution channels have fundamentally changed the way consumers shop for vacation rentals and the way property managers...

From Small Beginnings…Developing an Owner Acquisition Strategy

Growing a small property management company in a crowded market can be tough. There’s competition from other agencies as well as the ease in...

HomeAway, TurnKey leaders pen open letter to Austin City Council to protect vacation rentals

This week the Austin City Council once again tackles the issue of short term rentals, and leaders from HomeAway, TurnKey Vacation Rentals, BedandBreakfast.com, OnceThere, and KeyToAnywhere...
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Travel Tech Addresses Austin City Council About Pending Legislations

Today the Austin City Council will debate an initiative that potentially phases out short term rentals. The Travel Technology Association (Travel Tech), the trade...

Got Interfaces?

Integrating your technology Several years back, when I opened my Twitter account this was my first tweet, “Don't let software vendors hold your data hostage!”...

The Smart Home Wave and the Impact on the Vacation Rental Industry

Smart Tech is in the House Greg Burge, PresidentPointCentralThere is a significant technology trend occurring in the U.S. and other countries that is having a...

Jen O’Neal Takes the Vacation Rental Industry Tripping

  If you haven’t heard of Tripping.com before, you will very soon. Founded by Jen O’Neal in 2009, Tripping.com has become the world's largest metasearch platform...

Snaptrip raises $2.2M for last minute vacation rental marketplace

Tnooz - Even as vacation rentals draw the scrutiny of regulators worldwide, investors continue to see enormous potential in the fast-growing industry. Today, the last-minute...

Mobile Visits for Vacation Rentals Are On the Rise

By Vanessa Humes, ICND -- You’re probably tired of hearing about everything going mobile. It’s all you’ve heard about since responsive web design came on the scene...

The Important Role of Owner Service Providers in the Sharing Economy

Editorial by John Banczak, Co-founder and Chairman, TurnKey Vacation Rentals It would be virtually impossible for anyone involved in the sharing economy or vacation rental industry to...
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The Extraordinary Value of the Repeat Guest

As the volume of vacation rentals and the competition increases, guest acquisition is at the forefront of many Vacation Rental Property Management Companies’ concerns...

Employers Beware: Overtime Rules are Set to Change

Be aware there are major changes coming with how you pay your employees. If you have salaried employees earning less than $50,440 per year...

The Barbarians At The Gate

Why the Entire STR Industry Must Stand Up Against Onerous New Regulations. By Philip Minardi, Short Term Rental Advocacy Center Over the past year and a...

Your success depends on Theirs – An Introduction to Homeowner relations.

By Tim Cafferty GRI, ARM Recently I was requested to reprise a seminar I first conducted in 2006 on behalf of VRMA. “An Introduction to Homeowner Relations”...

LeisureLink Opening an Untapped Market for Vacation Rentals

Airbnb’s recent expansion into the vacation rental market heralded a strategic shift to move beyond the peer-to-peer model on which it was founded. This...

VRM Revenue Optimization

By Amber Mayer, Vacation Rental Consultant Revenue Optimization is the art of selling the right product to the right person at the right price.   I did...

LeisureLink Raises $17M to Fuel Explosive Growth

Vacation Rental Industry Evolution Creates Urgent Need for LeisureLink Distribution Management Services  SALT LAKE CITY, UT – January 19, 2016  LeisureLink, the world’s leader in...
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Stay Alfred Offers Free Vacation Rentals to Cancer Patients

Stay Alfred Vacation Rentals Offers Complimentary Lodging to Cancer Patients in 11 US Cities Stay Alfred is pleased to announce an agreement with the American...

Guest Communications: Is Your Brand at Risk?

brand a·ware·ness noun the extent to which consumers are familiar with the distinctive qualities or image of a particular brand of goods or services. Customer engagement is...

WSJ: HomeAway Mocks Airbnb Sharing Economy in New Ad

By Suzanne Vranica, WSJ --HomeAway Inc. wants to remind you of all about the funny and uncomfortable ways that sharing someone’s home on vacation...

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