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I-PRAC partners with digital guidebook company Orana Stay
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK / Australia: Global verification and membership platform, I-PRAC, has partnered with digital guidebook solution Orana Stay to maximise benefits for both hosts and guests.
Airbnb issues global ban on indoor security cameras
Reading Time: 3 minutesWorldwide: Airbnb has announced that it is issuing a global ban on the use of indoor security cameras at its listings, as it seeks to prioritise guest safety and privacy and responds to increasing security concerns.
Airbnb commits to verifying 1.5m listings by end of March
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: Airbnb is committing to verifying nearly 1.5 million listings across the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK and France by the end of this month, as part of its spring update.
Superhog raises £5.5m to revolutionise STR security
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Vacation rental risk management solution Superhog has announced that it has raised £5.5 million in Series A funding.
I-PRAC: Is it time we embraced uncertainty in the STR industry?
Reading Time: 4 minutes[SPONSORED CONTENT] Global verification and membership platform, I-PRAC, states the case for embracing uncertainty in the short-term rental industry and discusses the launch of its first STR Fraud Awareness Week next month.
STRz podcast 17: Humphrey Bowles, SUPERHOG and GUARDHOG
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Humphrey Bowles, co-founder of SUPERHOG, and CEO and co-founder of GUARDHOG, joins the latest episode of the ShortTermRentalz podcast to discuss addressing issues with scammers and fraudsters, the ‘party house’ phenomenon, and the need to “embrace” the Gen Z demographic for the future of the short-term rental industry.
I-PRAC to invest £1 million of value into the short-term rental sector
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: In a bid to transform the short-term rental landscape and support the thousands of operators within it, the CEO of I-PRAC, Chris Maughan, has approved an investment of £1 million into the sector, via the company’s verification platform for rental professionals. In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, Maughan believes there is a great deal to […]
GUARDHOG launches global ID verification platform SUPERHOG
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: P2P insurer GUARDHOG Technologies has launched a sister company, SUPERHOG, which it claims will provide financially “guaranteed” global ID verification services to the vacation rental community. The sister company was born out of the GUARDHOG team’s learnings from insuring millions of nights of bookings over the last three years. They recognised that insurance, by […]
Airbnb pledges to verify all listings for the first time
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorldwide: In response to a number of scandals and incidents in recent years, Airbnb has announced it will verify each listing on its platform for the first time since it launched in 2008. Last week, the rental platform pledged to ban so-called ‘party houses’ after a shooting incident at a property in Orinda, San Francisco, […]