Vacation Rental Scale-Up

Two European decisions landed roughly 48 hours apart, and on the surface they have nothing to do with each other. Google removed the vacation rentals section from Search across the European Economic Area — the EU plus...

For a decade, cities have blamed short-term rentals for taking homes off the market. Airbnb has played defence the whole time. On 14 September, it changed tack and put $250 million into building housing instead. The...

Airbnb is offering select hosts a new “Direct Booking Link” with a much lower 6% or 10% host fee . The question is: if Airbnb still processes the booking and controls the guest relationship, how “direct” is it? In this...

When Airbnb shifted operators to a single 15.5% host fee, many short-term rental managers assumed a simple price markup would keep their revenue neutral. However, financial analysts at Bernstein and Airbnb leadership...

Shoulder season isn't summer on a dimmer switch. It's a reset, and this episode treats it that way. Jay Whiteley, who runs revenue, marketing, and distribution for ViewStay by Casago's roughly 4,500 properties, joins...

I booked a trip to a small village in Alsace, and once I was in, I started paying attention to what Airbnb was actually selling me. The homepage had a car rental discount and a luggage storage deal waiting before I'd...

Airbnb just reported 3.6 billion dollars in revenue, nights booked up 10%, and raised guidance for the rest of the year. On paper, one of its best quarters ever. Look closer, and a good chunk of that growth traces back...

Guests have stopped opening fifty tabs. They open one AI prompt — family of four, two kids under ten, beach, four days, this budget — and book from the shortlist that comes back. So when that shortlist gets assembled...

How do you make sure that when ChatGPT recommends your short-term rental, the guest actually clicks "book"? While everyone is racing to get surfaced by AI search tools, a mere citation on Claude or Perplexity does not...

Most revenue tools still make you log in, click through, and cross-reference before you get an answer. This episode tests what happens when you skip all of that — wiring a live pricing engine straight into an AI...

Vrbo's newest ads, Magician and No Chef, are the ones getting all the buzz right now. Big spend, big view counts, the full spotlight moment. 🎬So why bring up a much quieter content campaign running in the background at...

Airbnb just promised Wall Street it would extract more money from every single booking this year. Yet, your platform fees aren’t going up, and your payouts remain untouched. So, where is that massive revenue growth...

Should you build your own custom AI workflows, or wait for your software vendors to roll out their updates? In this episode, Thibault Masson sits down with Mark Simpson to break down exactly how independent operators...

The rules of organic search visibility are undergoing a major shift. For years, professional operators have structured their businesses around strict performance metrics to secure Vrbo’s Premier Host badge and its...

Airbnb’s new "risk-free" cancellation policy might guarantee your payout, but it could be silently draining your operational budget. 🛑💸 In this episode of the RSU Podcast, Thibault Masson (Founder of RSU by PriceLabs)...