Inquiries & bookings
Earlier this year, Google gave warning of the change with this announcement: 'Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search ...
According to Skift’s 2015 State of Travel Report (Europe), bookings via mobile smartphones in Europe have risen from 6% of total bookings to 17% in 2015 and are estimated to reach 22% by 2016. And they predict that by next year 70% of European leisure travelers will be using mobile phones. Many will ...
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 ...
These sites are your shop window on the web. The number of inquiries you get from them will depend on their ‘visibility’ as a vacation rental listings site and on your visibility on their sites. How many listings sites do you need? Many independent vacation rental owners wisely choose to list ...
At their 2015 European Seminar in Dublin, the VRMA (Vacation Rental Managers Association) revealed that 58 per cent of vacation rental bookings in 2014 came via the internet. Their Vacation Rental Industry Trends (Europe 2015) Report also shows that this is up on the previous year and compares ...
Some automation is essential if we vacation rental owners are to deal with inquiries and manage our properties efficiently while winning back time for ourselves. This thought was prompted by a recent blog from Revinate + Skift which reports that: 'Hotels are finding that the current state of guest ...
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 ...
Our unique Inquiry Manager toolbox was created with the express purpose of increasing your reservations while saving you time. It allows you to choose the level of automated response that suits you and your property while making light work of complex rate changes and tax calculations. You can ...
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 ...
Event Builder is one of the key features of the Homes and Rooms service which empower you, the busy vacation rental owner. Many prefer to focus their time and effort on making sure that their guests have a fantastic time yet don’t want to relinquish control of other aspects of management of their ...
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