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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...

The New Normal: Adapting to a Changed Reality

As the professional community begins to work its way through the COVID-19 curve and the associated rolling economic calamity induced by the virus, we...

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...

Lasting Impact: Leveraging Professionalism to Meet the New Traveler Persona

I’m writing this from quarantine in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, a market where vacation rentals have been on hold this spring and where the...

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...

COVID‐19 and Vacation Rental Payment Risk: THE BIG PICTURE

ASCENT has been helping merchants take credit card payments in the Vacation Rental (VR) industry for more than 20 years. We are, therefore, uniquely...

The Importance of Deep Cleans – Let’s Get Real

Since submitting this article, COVID-19 has surfaced and ravaged the globe, the economy and this industry. Now, more than ever, it is the property...
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Latest Data Show Sharp Drop in Forward-Looking Occupancy for Vacation Rental Companies

Over the last two weeks, booking pace in the US leisure-based vacation rental industry--for stays through July--has seen a significant slowdown as travel restrictions...

Help Vacation Rental Companies Get Federal Relief: A Message from VRMA Pres Toby Babich

We've been receiving calls and emails asking how property managers can petition for federal assistance for vacation rental management companies. Below is a letter from...

Vacasa announces layoffs, executive pay cuts, and cuts in hours for others

Earlier today, Vacasa notified employees it is laying off an unspecified number of workers, cutting the hours of others in half, and reducing executive...

For Vacation Rental Management Executives: What Do You Need to Do Now?

Over the past 72 hours, it has become clear that vacation rental managers are facing a much more serious impact from COVID-19 than previously...

Outer Banks Closes Doors to Visitors

As reported by OBX Today, Dare County is restricting visitor access to North Carolina's Outer Banks beginning at 2 p.m. Tuesday.  Read entire article.  In response...

CNN: Rich people are going to isolated vacation homes to “sit it out”

In a segment on Saturday on CNN's Smerconish, talk show host Michael Smerconish discussed wealth disparity in the US with author Nelson D. Schwartz. "There...

Current Data Shows Vacation Rental Booking Activity for Spring Break and Summer in US Leisure Destinations Still Strong, In Spite of Coronavirus Concerns

As news circulated throughout the world about the highly contagious coronavirus, or COVID-19, the travel industry began to see increases in cancellations and decreases...
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Webinar: Is the coronavirus affecting short-term vacation rental booking activity?

With all the questions we've had this week about the potential slowdown in travel, we decided to ask the experts. Is it panic or...

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