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Covid vaccine results boost rental bookings
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: Following the promising news regarding the effectiveness of potential Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, data from property management software platform Guesty hints at a rise in consumer travel confidence and an uptick in short-term rental bookings. New York-based Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told Sky News that the company would be able to send […]
LateRooms launches LateCottages for last-minute rental bookings
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Last-minute hotel booking platform LateRooms has announced the creation of a companion site, LateCottages, for the short-term rental industry. Users will now be able to rent one of over 100,000 professionally-managed self-catering accommodation properties at the last-minute. Rest Easy Group, parent company of the two sites, launched LateCottages last month in order to cater […]
RedAwning sells Blizzard marketing unit to Beyond Pricing
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Vacation rental property network RedAwning has sold Blizzard Internet Marketing, only two years after its initial acquisition. Beyond Pricing has purchased the company for an undisclosed fee and will acquire all the assets, staff, contracts and ongoing business. Blizzard specialises in web hosting, site design, and email marketing for short-term rental companies. The platform […]
UK vacation rental bookings spike 716 per cent between April and May
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Data from online booking platform eviivo has shown that bookings for vacation rentals between 1 April 2020 and 6 May 2020 are three times more than hotel bookings for the same period. Overall, there has been a three-fold increase (276 per cent) in the number of holiday bookings between April and May, with nearly 60 per […]
Airbnb announces 2019 trending ski destinations
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: Airbnb has released a report of their top five trending ski destinations, based on internal data for year over year booking growth. Here are the top five trending ski destinations on the list: • Karuizawa, Japan Karuizawa in Japan is Airbnb’s top trending ski destination of the year. Located just an hour away from […]
Airbnb bookings set to surge in the UAE for New Year’s Eve celebrations
Reading Time: 2 minutesUAE: The number of people staying in rental accommodation listed on Airbnb in the UAE is set to more than double during New Year’s Eve. The short-term rental platform said it was currently seeing a 108 per cent rise in bookings during the New Year period, as travellers head to the Emirates to make the […]