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Ever considered the accessibility of your vacation rental? You can open up new marketing opportunities and feel good too by making it more accessible. Accessibility is a big priority for many of us - more than you might think. There are more than 11 million people with disabilities in the UK alone ...
A recent report shows how behavioral science may help to boost those vital repeat bookings. Repeat bookings should be your holy grail! That was the message we put out in this blog almost a year ago and it’s even truer today. Now, as the big listing sites bid for even more control of vacation rental ...
What’s happened to the American vacation? Last year 41% of Americans took NO vacation. Should vacation rental owners be worried? According to a Skift survey, the American vacation is in decline and the majority of Americans will take little or no vacation in 2016. In fact, 41% will take no vacation ...
If you’re a self-managing vacation rental owner keen to boost income from your property, our new webinar shows how you could increase revenues by as much as 33%. As regular readers know, Homes and Rooms is here to empower the independent vacation rental owner. We provide the support to independent ...
The 7 October announcement of the Dwellable takeover by listings giant HomeAway has taken the industry by surprise. But how will it affect Homes and Rooms subscribers listed with Dwellable? Announcing the takeover on the company’s website, CEO Kirby Winfied said: ‘As part of the transition, the ...
Once you’ve secured a regular share of repeat guests, your workload as an independent vacation rental owner can be reduced. Equally important, as a Homes and Rooms subscriber with your own website (your own or provided by us), your income will go up more than if all your bookings come through ...
News is that owners in the USA are on the crest of a rising wave of foreign tourists. Close on 68.5 million visitors arrived there in the first 11 months of 2014 – a 7 per cent increase on the same period in 2013 – heading for an all-time high. But Americans, along with vacation rental owners ...
However much we might rely on online resources to run our enterprise, we never forget that we're in the people business and behave accordingly. And that should be the starting point for any vacation rental owner looking to build repeat reservations – with all the knock-on benefits of word of mouth ...
Every independent vacation rental owner will want to attract as many visitors to their vacation rental website as they can. Here are a number of things to consider when looking to attract more visitors to your website. Maximize the SEO of your site If you are already a Homes and Rooms subscriber, ...
To run at or near full capacity and maximize reservations and revenues has always been the aim of the independent vacation rental owner and now it’s possible for even the smallest operation to access the widening possibilities offered by a huge global market – given the right support. The vacation ...
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