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2023 Expedia Guide: How to Drive More Visibility & Bookings for Vacation Rentals (Part 4)

V. Managing Reviews & Boosting Ratings   Online reviews play an essential role in traveler booking decisions. On Expedia, they also play a role in determining your visibility in search results.   According to Expedia: 73% of travelers indicate reviews play a role in their decision-making process 72% are more likely to pay more for...

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2023 Expedia Guide: How to Drive More Visibility & Bookings for Vacation Rentals (Part 3)

IV. 7 Ways to Drive More Bookings on Expedia   Once you’ve whipped your listings into shape with everything you learned in part 2 of our 2023 Expedia Guide, it’s time to bring them to market. Here are seven ways to...

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2023 Expedia Guide: How to Drive More Visibility & Bookings for Vacation Rentals (Part 2)

III. 5 Ways to Increase Visibility on Expedia   Welcome to part two of VacayHome Connect’s 2023 Expedia Guide!   With more than three million properties listed on Expedia travel sites, from hotels to private rentals, it’s easy to get...

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2023 Expedia Guide: How to Drive More Visibility & Bookings for Vacation Rentals (Part 1)

I. Expedia: Connecting You to a World of Travelers   Listing your vacation rental properties with Expedia can vastly expand your reach, driving higher visibility and more bookings not only on Expedia.com but on Expedia Group’s global network of brands...

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Vacation Rental Decoration Tips

How do I make my vacation rentals stand out?   That’s a recurring question across the short-term rental industry. And sometimes, the answer is pretty simple: decorate.   Property managers already have a lot on their plates, so decorating and...

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Here's Why Reservation Transparency is Important

When property managers receive a booking, they have a lot of questions to answer: Who is my guest? Can I contact my guest? How did this booking come to me? What are the financial details of the booking? Does my...

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The Surprising Benefits of Naming Vacation Rental Properties

Branding is an important part of vacation rental distribution.   That means vacation rental property managers should do their best to establish a sleek, consistent brand with their content on whichever travel sites they’re listed on. Great visual content is...

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What is Clustering for Vacation Rentals?

Vacation rental property managers have many options when it comes to boosting production.   The number of different tools out there is actually a bit staggering, especially once you start breaking them down channel by channel. Optimized content, promotions and...

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Using Visual Content to Increase Bookings

While browsing vacation rentals on Vrbo, Booking.com, Airbnb, and other vacation rental listing sites, travelers click on certain properties for the same reason they skip past others: visual content. Visual content builds trust. Research shows that within a 30-day shopping...

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Ask an Expert: How Do I Write Amazing Vacation Rental Descriptions?

Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes Cellophane flowers of yellow and green Towering over your head Look for the girl...

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7 Essential Ways to Increase Visibility & Bookings on Expedia for Vacation Rentals

Vacation rentals now account for roughly 2 million listings on Expedia sites.   When property managers list with Expedia, they benefit from its massive global brand awareness, reaching millions of travelers they could never access on their own. That’s because...

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What is Payments by Booking.com?

Over the past couple of years, vacation rental property managers and short-term rental travelers have made their priorities abundantly clear: Property managers are looking for secure revenue, reduced costs, and streamlined operations Travelers want to know exactly how much they’ll...

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What Is Channel Management Plus for Vacation Rental Property Managers?

Other channel managers provide software only, leaving property managers on their own to handle everything else. At VacayHome Connect, we understand that to maximize bookings you need the support of a dedicated team of vacation rental specialists.   In addition...