All posts tagged "OTAs"

In the never-ending battle for winning online bookings, OTAs and major hotel brands have become even more...

When I first got started with the vacation rental industry in the mid-1980s, the landscape was fundamentally...

The first guest loyalty app that supports independent vacation rental professionals The beta release will take advantage...

KPIs Show the Value of Direct Bookings, but Airbnb is Quickly Gaining Ground as a Percentage of...

Spoiler alert…you won’t get very far. Getting the most out of your marketing efforts means investing in...

My experience on this topic began with a foundation in the hotel industry where I saw distribution,...

  A $70 Billion Difference  A manager at one of the three big global listing platforms recently...

For years now, vacation rental companies have been fighting desperately to win back market share from third...

“We’re seeing lots of traffic, it’s not just converting.” How many times have you heard this? How many...

In business and life in general, they say to avoid extremes. Make a solid plan, make corrective...

2021 Will Be the Year That Managers Stop Being Passengers and Start Piloting Their Own Marketing Futures...

The Fourth Annual #BookDirect Guest Education Day, recurring on the first Wednesday in February, is coming soon....

Property detail pages (PDPs) on your website, as well as the vacation property’s assets you provide to...

As most of my readers and clients in the vacation rental (VR) niche of lodging know, I...

Some History While extended stays or mid-term stays (these go by many names) have been a hot...

As we come out on the other side of this pandemic and prepare for relaunch, it is...

I have spent more than a decade in the hospitality industry learning and sharing how to capture...

Condo-World Continues to Leverage Proprietary Technology and its Hybrid-OTA Model in 2020 Expansion Strategy Late last year,...

In a refreshingly clear-eyed and candid earnings call on Thursday, Expedia Group Chairman and senior executive Barry...

The Winter 2020 issue of VRM Intel Magazine is here. From the top of the marketing funnel...

The way guests book vacation rentals (VRs) has changed dramatically in the past five years. One of...

I’m ashamed (or maybe proud?) to admit it, but I’ve been around the property management industry long...

The vacation rental industry may be changing, but now is not the time to give up At...

Play to Your Strengths as a Local Vacation Rental Brand Like virtually all industries these days, the...