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6 Hot Takes on the Future and Growing Pains of Short-Term Rentals with Simon Lehmann

“Short-term rental is mainstream hospitality. It accounts for 14% of the global hospitality industry. And mainstream industries must operate by a different set of rules.”...

PriceLabs Announces $30 Million Investment from Summit Partners

Funding to support continued team expansion and product development to support growing demand for innovative, easy-to-use dynamic pricing solutions for the short-term rental industry.   PriceLabs...

Aspen and Pitkin County, CO Limit Vacation Rentals to 120 Days a Year

In the last week, both Aspen City Council and the Pitkin County Board of Commissioners unanimously passed ordinances that limit short-term rental activity to...

Vermont Scraps State Rental Registry Attempt, Retries for Housing Programs and Local Rules

As a progressive state with a population of less than 625,000, Vermont has long been a laboratory for lawmaking. Legislation in Vermont can serve...

Stays Group and Touch Stay Announce Partnership that Strengthens The Vacation Rental Travel Ecosystem

Delivering guest centric tools that lead to more direct bookings is a win-win for the vacation rental traveler and the dedicated hosts who serve...

Don’t Press Pause on Homeowner Marketing This Season— It’s Time to Hit the Gas!

If you had 10 more properties, could you book them? Spoiler alert: The answer is yes. Demand for vacation rental properties is at an all-time...

Safety First: Evaluating and Addressing Safety Risks at Your Vacation Rentals

On an early January morning in 2021, a devastating fire broke out in a vacation rental home in Malibu where smoke alarms had not...
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Stays Group Announces Guest Loyalty App for Vacation Rental Travelers

The first guest loyalty app that supports independent vacation rental professionals The beta release will take advantage of the rapid growth of the Stays Group...

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Predicts Travel Revolution: “Travel as we know it is never coming back.”

At this week’s Skift Global Forum, Airbnb cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky told an audience of travel providers that the world is experiencing a...

The Industry Needs Your Feedback in Phocuswright’s 2021 Short-Term Rental Survey

Short-term rentals in the US have been on a steady growth trajectory over the past decade. Since 2013, Phocuswright, a leading travel industry research...

Helping Your Guests Create Memories that Matter One Experience at a Time

A guest’s memories of a vacation can be different from their true experience and are sometimes shaped by a single event. That is why...

Stays Group Announces Release of SouthwestStays

The member driven marketplace is part of the largest cooperative network of independent vacation rental brands working together to drive book direct initiatives that...

Property Managers as Hospitality Providers and the Future of Service

There’s a push-pull situation emerging in vacation home rentals where operators must determine the right balance between how much touch-free service they can or...

Rent Responsibly Announces Five Founding Partnerships to Bring Alliance-Building and Advocacy Tools to More Vacation Rental Markets

Rent Responsibly, a community-building platform for local vacation rental alliances, announced today the launch of five new partnerships across the industry. Expedia Group, Breezeway,...
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Founder of Newly Launched Kaiser Vacation Rentals Says, “Things Will Be Different … This Time”

In an exclusive interview with VRM Intel Magazine, Glen Kaiser announced today that he and his brother, Leonard Kaiser, are founding partners of Kaiser...

The Principles That Have Guided Meredith Lodging through the Global Pandemic, Raging Forest Fires and Personal Family Challenges

Meredith Oksenholt and son, EJ, keeping an eye out for passing whales in the Bella Beach community of Depoe Bay. As with many vacation...

9 Key Revenue Management Basics

The economic landscape for short-term and vacation rentals is swiftly changing, bringing new challenges each day. The industry experienced a screeching halt in demand...

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...

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...

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...

Smart City Policy Summit 2019

Inaugural Short-term Rental Regulations Forum Coming to Austin, August 16 When I was coming up in local politics, a community leader would hold meetings throughout...
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Bedbugs, Block Parties, and Broken Bones

Safeguard Your Short-Term Vacation Rental Business from the Unexpected With the growing number of vacation rental insurance options available today, it can be difficult...

Who Are We? The Consequences of the Expanded Scope of the “Private Accommodations” Industry

The Scope of the Vacation Rental Industry has Broadened, Forever Changing the Playing Field for Property Managers If it seems like the vacation rental industry...

The Push for Quality: How Hotel Convergence is Affecting Vacation Rentals 

A dozen years ago, before HomeAway acquired VRBO and before vacation rentals had any presence with major online travel agencies (OTAs), rental managers were...

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