Say Goodbye to Bad Guests: Solving the Challenge of Effective Screening with AI Technology
Traditional guest screening methods can be tedious, time-consuming, and often ineffective, leading to scenarios every property manager dreads.
Boost Your Direct Booking Credibility with Chris Maughan
Have you ever had a potential guest who seemed genuinely interested in your property, but decided to book elsewhere at the last moment? It's not uncommon to lose potential bookings due to your direct booking website simply lacking credibility. Discover the insights on trust marketing, the role of property certifications, and the first steps towards building credibility on your direct booking website.
How to Market Your Vacation Rental to Attract Remote Workers
Remote workers and “workationers" want a change of scenery from their usual work environment and to experience new destinations. While there’s an opportunity for owners and managers to tap into this growing market, it's important to consider the unique needs and desires of this group.
How to Build A Direct Vacation Rental Website For More Bookings
From tech challenges to knowing what to write, and figuring out whether you’ve included all the right elements, to getting all the tech working and replacing everything that OTAs provide (like guest screening, payment processing, and listings). And how including all of this helps to build trust with your would-be guests, and ensures your properties are protected and profitable.
Why and How to Set Up a Vacation Rental Loyalty Program
Question: What’s better than a happy vacation rental guest? Answer: A happy vacation rental guest who books again and again! And a great way to make that happen? Set up a successful loyalty and referral program. Read the post to discover the benefits, types, and best practices of loyalty programs.
How to Capture More Last-Minute Bookings and Win All 5 Stars Doing It
While last-minute bookings can do wonders for your occupancy rates, they can also create operational nightmares. Success means not just winning those last-minute reservations, but also providing the same quality guest experience.
7 Ways to Drive Repeat Direct Bookings
How can you make sure happy guests come back to you directly, so you don’t have to pay OTA fees over and over for the same guests? Especially when you’ve already done the hard work of building that good rapport and offering them a great stay?
Essential Steps to Creating a Website that Drives Direct Bookings
From setting up a direct booking website, taking great photos, showing calendar availability, taking payments, and sending confirmation emails—never mind making sure visitors actually see your site in the first place—it can feel like there are so many moving parts you barely know where to begin. We get it. But pushing past the overwhelm can literally pay off.
Choosing Vacation Rental Insurance for your Direct Bookings
Setting up your own direct booking platform is a great way to free yourself from the tyranny of booking platform fees. But what happens when your guests damage your vacation home or injure themselves during a stay? Let's review the top insurance providers out there!
How to Make Guest Screening Part of Your Direct Booking Strategy
While creating a direct booking strategy lets you sidestep OTA fees and rules, it also means going without their profile verification tools and background checks, and significantly increasing the risk of major issues. Faced with such risk, reliable and robust guest screening tools—such as Autohost, which integrates with Hospitable.com—are more important than ever.
