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The short-term rental industry is evolving fast, and Simon Lehmann isn’t afraid to say what others won’t. STR Global Unlocked is where property managers, STR tech founders, vacation rental investors, and hospitality leaders get real about the business. Each episode breaks down what’s working, what’s broken, and what’s coming next: property management operations, direct bookings, vacation rental software, pricing strategies, mergers and acquisitions in real estate, professional host challenges, and the future of automation, AI, and tech stacks. Hosted by Simon Lehmann, CEO of AJL Atelier and one of the most trusted voices in the global STR space, the show delivers unfiltered conversations with the people shaping the industry. Simon has decades of experience in vacation rentals, travel tech, and hospitality, including leadership roles at Vacasa Europe, PhocusWright and HomeAway. If you’re scaling a property management company, building short-term ren
Powered by AJL Atelier hosts STR Global Unlocked with Simon Lehmann: Unfiltered knowledge for the short term rental industry, a business show with 41 episodes published.
Most short-term rental operators focus on adding more units, entering new markets, and automating their operations. But what if the strongest competitive advantage is not the size of your portfolio, but the relationship
AI is changing hospitality, but I believe the bigger question is not just how AI will change our tools, our operations, or our businesses. The bigger question is: what happens when AI starts changing the customer? In thi
In this episode of STR Global Unlocked , I speak with Shaun Shirazian, CEO of Lodgify , about one of the biggest shifts happening in short-term rentals and hospitality: the rise of AI search, direct bookings, and the fut
Book a strategic consultation with me now: https://bit.ly/simon-consultation AI is transforming guest communication in short-term rentals and hospitality. In this episode of STR Global Unlocked, I speak with industry lea
Book a strategic consultation with me now: https://bit.ly/simon-consultation Profit margins can make or break a short-term rental business - but most operators are looking at the wrong numbers. In this video, I break dow
Book a strategic consultation with me now: https://bit.ly/simon-consultation In this episode of STR Global Unlocked, I sit down with Siddhi Mittal, co-founder of yhangry, a Y Combinator–backed hospitality marketplace sca
In this episode of STR Global Unlocked, I sit down with Julie Brinkmann from Beyond to discuss how short-term rental operators can move from simple dynamic pricing to true profit-first property management. We explore why
In this episode of STR Global Unlocked , we explore what an AI-native property management company really looks like and how AI is already changing operations, guest communication, distribution, PMS systems, scaling, and
AI is changing how people search, plan and book travel and this shift could reshape the future of direct bookings, guest relationships and platform dependency in the short-term rental industry. In this episode of STR Glo
Marketplaces were built to aggregate supply. Not to own it. That assumption is breaking faster than most operators expected. Dr. Patrick Andrae is the Co-Founder and CEO of HomeToGo, one of the world’s leading vacation r
Short-term rentals and hotels are converging into a single operating model. The real shift is not about category. It is about who can deliver better economics, better experience, and better scalability in urban markets.
In this episode, Simon Lehmann sits down with Hector Hughes, Co-Founder & CEO of Unplugged, a UK-based cabin brand built entirely around one conviction: that spending three days offline in nature changes people. Founded
How did short-term rentals become a strategic priority for one of the world’s largest hotel companies? Short-term rentals now represent more than 14% of global lodging supply. When one of the world's largest hotel compan
European vacation rental is not short on platforms. It is short on platforms that have survived every cycle and kept building anyway. Johannes Siebers is the Co-Founder and CEO of Holidu, a vacation rental technology com
Venture capital is not ignoring travel tech. It is underwriting to a different standard. And most founders building in hospitality right now do not fully understand what that standard is. In this episode of STR Global Un
Nobody calls a property manager "a software company." Arbio is replacing the traditional tech stack with a single AI system designed to run operations end to end. Constantin Schröder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arbio, o
The biggest disruption coming to short-term rentals is not regulation, supply growth, or capital compression. It is distribution itself. In this episode of STR Global Unlocked, Simon Lehmann sits down with Shaun Stewart,
Is short-term rental growth a volume game, or is quality becoming the real competitive advantage? In a market flooded with inventory, inconsistent standards, and increasing AI-driven discovery, Christian Schwarz Lausten
Short-term rentals disrupted hospitality by challenging one of its core assumptions: that consistency is the ultimate brand promise. But as Airbnb scaled globally, the real shift was not about standardization. It was abo
As short-term rental moves from rapid expansion into a more disciplined phase, leadership quality becomes the differentiator. In fast-scaling STR businesses, execution rarely breaks because of strategy. It breaks under p
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