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Gen Z and millennials make last-minute Thanksgiving travel plans

Thanksgiving

Reading Time: 3 minutesUS: 52 per cent of Gen Z and 49 per cent of millennials in the United States are planning to travel for this year’s Thanksgiving weekend [24-28 November], with many trips expected to be booked at the last minute. That is according to travel guidance platform TripAdvisor, which also states that 55 per cent of […]

Guesty For Hosts unveiled in Your Porter App rebranding

Guesty

Reading Time: 2 minutesIsrael: End-to-end property management platform Guesty, which seeks to automate and streamline complex operational needs accompanying short-term rental management, has unveiled Guesty For Hosts [formerly Your Porter App], its newly branded and enhanced offering for small hosts and property owners. Built for the needs of those managing a handful of rentals, Guesty For Hosts is […]

The future of industry consolidation in the short-term rental ecosystem

consolidation

Reading Time: 4 minutesWorldwide: Amiad Soto, co-founder and CEO of property management platform Guesty, a sponsor of the recent Short Stay Summit in London, discusses the who, what, where and next in terms of consolidation across the short-term rental ecosystem. While the entire world and hospitality industry has been rocked by Covid-19, travel isn’t slowing down. One and a […]

Boostly integrates with Guesty marketplace

Boostly

Reading Time: 3 minutesUK / Israel: Boostly, an online training platform for hospitality owners, has announced its integration with leading property management software platform Guesty. Thanks to the power of API, Guesty’s platform will now smartly connect with Boostly-designed websites to ease consumer booking experiences and increase direct bookings for property managers and owners. As the short-term rental industry continues […]

Labor Day to continue US travel streak after 4 July weekend

Labor Day

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Short-term rental management platform Guesty has outlined its latest travel data, with the Fourth of July weekend outperforming pre-Covid numbers and the upcoming Labor Day weekend [6 September] looking set to continue the strong streak in advance bookings. According to Guesty, US short-term rental bookings for the Fourth of July weekend netted out strong, […]

Join BOOM, Abode PR, Guesty + TravMedia for RockSTRz PR webinar

RockSTRz

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorldwide: Join BOOM, Abode PR, Guesty and TravMedia for the next webinar in the ShortTermRentalz RockSTRz 3.0 series tomorrow [Tuesday 13 July – 4pm BST] as an expert panel discusses ‘The importance of effective PR for hospitality businesses’. The session, which is being sponsored by series sponsor Flywire and session sponsor BOOM, will cover everything […]

Sign up for ‘Importance of effective PR’ RockSTRz webinar [13 July]

RockSTRz

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorldwide: The latest series of RockSTRz webinars continues on Tuesday 13 July [4pm BST] as an expert panel discusses ‘The importance of effective PR for hospitality businesses’. The session, which is being sponsored by series sponsor Flywire and session sponsor BOOM, will cover everything from how different PR agencies and teams have been leading the way in […]

Guesty: Booking habits “normalising” to pre-Covid times

Guesty

Reading Time: 4 minutesUS: Data released by short-term rental property management platform Guesty suggests that travel is “normalising” as pre-Covid booking habits return ahead of the 4 July Independence Day and Thanksgiving celebrations. The platform believes that consumers are starting to feel more comfortable booking shorter stays and making reservations more in advance rather than at the last […]

Guesty raises $50m in Series D funding and buys Your Porter

Guesty

Reading Time: 3 minutesIsrael: Tel Aviv-based property management platform Guesty has announced that it has raised $50 million in Series D funding, and acquired fellow property management software Your Porter. The round was led by the Apax Digital Fund with participation from the AMI Opportunities Fund, both advised by Apax Partners, and existing investors Viola Growth, Flashpoint, Vertex Ventures, Kingfisher Investment […]

Guesty confirms acquisition of fellow PMS MyVR

MyVR

Reading Time: 3 minutesIsrael / US: Property management platform Guesty, which automates and streamlines all complex operational needs accompanying short-term rental management, has announced that it has acquired another leading property management software in MyVR. According to Guesty, the deal “effectively makes the company the largest short-term rental property management platform worldwide”. Guesty’s investment showcases the promise of 2021 as […]