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2025 to Trump 2024? Turbulence, tech & overtourism travel trends
Reading Time: 12 minutesWorldwide: STRz editor Paul Stevens makes his predictions for the global short-term / vacation rental industry as we edge closer to 2025.
Summer travel predictions for urban + non-urban operators
Reading Time: 3 minutesUS: Luke Bujarski, co-founder of Extenteam, examines the latest labour market data and takes lessons from previous years of the pandemic to project travel trends and implications for rental operators in urban and non-urban markets. This article reflects on the core findings from Extenteam’s recently published State of the U.S. Accommodations Workforce Report 2022 Predictions […]
From survival to revival: STRz 2022 predictions
Reading Time: 10 minutesWorldwide: After consecutive years of pandemic-induced turbulence, making my short-term rental predictions for 2022 has arguably never been as challenging. Even now, the surfacing of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus threatens to put the brakes on the recovery of an industry that has been decimated by closures and stringent regulations. And yet, unlike […]
Flexcation, innovation, regeneration: STRz 2021 predictions
Reading Time: 13 minutesWorldwide: It was Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky who said in June that the spectrum of travel would “never be the same again” post-pandemic. Though that may be the case heading into 2021, we should expect some prolonged turbulence before an industry recovery becomes a reality. In a year when our use of the word ‘pandemic’ […]
Empowering rental professionals with data: AirDNA’s James Kinnersly
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpain: AirDNA international sales manager James Kinnersly speaks to ShortTermRentalz at the first Short Stay Summit in Barcelona about empowering short-term rental professionals with market rates and recommended rates, and his predictions for booking trends in the space in 2020. For more information, visit the AirDNA website here.
STRz top 10 predictions for the short-term rental industry in 2019
Reading Time: 6 minutesAfter Michael Goldin shared his predictions ahead for the vacation rental industry, it is the turn of ShortTermRentalz to gaze into its crystal ball to predict what the top 10 trends will be in the sector in 2019. 1) The OTA v direct booking battle looks set to heat up The OTA vs direct booking […]