Tag: James Burrows

Rentals United partners with GUARDHOG

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpain: Channel management solution Rentals United has announced a partnership with GUARDHOG Technologies to provide a risk management platform for hosts. The platform, called SUPERHOG, will offer risk management tools including ID verification, all backed by a £1 million guarantee. A search functionality can also allow property managers to find information about their guests. Rentals […]

Rentals United announces opening of first US office

Reading Time: 2 minutesBarcelona: With the short-term rental sector expanding in the United States in recent years [albeit de-tracked by the Covid pandemic], outpacing even that of hotels, vacation rental channel manager Rentals United has announced the opening of its first North American office in the USA. Already claiming to hold a large roster of high-profile property managers in the USA in […]

Short-term rental advocacy in time of crisis

Reading Time: 5 minutesWorldwide: James Burrows, CEO of channel management solution Rentals United, talks to prominent short-term rental associations, the STAA [Short Term Accommodation Association, in the UK] and FEVITUR [Spain], to discern the key areas in the short-term rental industry that are critical for advocacy and how the pandemic has affected those efforts. The short-term rental market has […]

The role of metasearches during an economic downturn

Reading Time: 4 minutesSpain: Rentals United CEO James Burrows analyses how metasearches could become property managers’ best source of bookings during these uncertain times and why they are proving so popular right now with travellers, utilising exclusive insight from Holidu and HomeToGo. In the past few months, metasearches have been gaining popularity. Booking channels that aggregate listings from thousands […]

Rentals United partners with Wheelhouse

Reading Time: 2 minutesBarcelona: Channel management solution Rentals United has partnered with San Francisco-based Wheelhouse, a revenue and growth management company which helps property managers and owners determine the perfect revenue strategy by providing real-time, automated pricing recommendations and market intelligence. As the travel industry starts to slowly recover from Covid-19, having a solid pricing strategy will be crucial to outrun the competition. In […]

Rentals United appoints Truitt as head of revenue success

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBarcelona: Enterprise channel management solution Rentals United has emphasised the importance of revenue optimisation strategies for short-term property managers by bringing in Doug Truitt as its new head of revenue success. In the newly-created role of head of revenue success, Truitt will strive to combine Rental United’s channel management technology with sophisticated and individualised revenue optimisation strategy for its […]

It’s a vacation rental inventory gold rush! James Burrows, Rentals United

Reading Time: 4 minutesSpain: Rentals United CEO James Burrows addresses how OTAs are rushing to expand vacation rental inventory to meet increasing demand. As the world comes to grips with the ‘new normal’, the travel industry has an opportunity to begin its recovery. The vacation rental world especially is having a faster speed of recovery or is even the only sector bouncing […]

Rentals United confirms partnership with Trip.com

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBarcelona: Channel management solution Rentals United has announced a partnership to directly integrate with the Trip.com group. With over 400 million registered users worldwide, Trip.com is a Chinese provider of travel services who owns Trip.com, Ctrip.com and Skyscanner. It is the largest OTA in China and one of the largest travel service providers in the world. The site provides booking services […]

When borders open, Chinese travellers will be first to travel

Reading Time: 5 minutesChina: Rentals United co-founder and CEO, James Burrows, discusses how Chinese tourists are likely to be among the first in the world to restart travel in 2020, after the company’s partnership with China’s largest OTA, Trips.com. The coronavirus pandemic has rapidly worked itself around the globe devastating lives, economies, social structures, and businesses while wreaking havoc […]

Report: How tech is driving the professionalism of short-term rentals

Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: Channel manager Rentals United, has published The Global Short-Term Rental Tech Report 2020, which explores how technology is driving the professionalism of short-term rentals. The findings are based on the largest ever survey of short-term rental technology with 959 professionals in the short-term rental industry responding over a period of eight months. As the […]