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Follow the Hostaway blog! Our blog covers all aspects to managing short term rentals. Covering vacation rental topics as diverse as cleaning, automation, investing, revenue management, insurance, industry trends, guest service, and much more! Our vacation rental blog is dedicated to the development of short term rental hosts and managers listing on Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, and more.

Guide to Managing Vacation Rentals Remotely

The key to managing vacation rentals remotely is automation, process efficiency, and risk mitigation. First of all you w...

What is a Vacation Rental Channel Manager? Why is it Important?

As a vacation rental host, you’ve probably heard the term channel manager. It’s a common term that many hosts throw arou...

5 ways multi-unit will bring you more bookings

What is multi-unit (multi-availability)? On booking channels such as Airbnb or VRBO, individual properties are advertise...

The 5 Worst Mistakes You Can Make as a Short-Term Rental Operator

Perfecting your operations in the short-term rental industry is an art form. It takes the right combination of guest exp...

Managing The Finances of Your Vacation Rental Business

Perhaps the most important piece of your rental property strategy is managing your finances correctly. We stress the imp...

Top 6 Tips to Launch Your Online Vacation Rental Company

Managing more than one vacation rental home takes a lot of time and energy to do properly. Your competition is not just ...

How Channel Managers Boost Property Rental Success

The business of owning rental or vacation properties involves a lot more than home and yard maintenance and local tax pa...

Determining the ROI of Your Vacation Rental Property

Vacation home rental is an income opportunity with perks. You get to have a vacation home and generate passive income. B...

Doinn and Hostaway integration & 5 secrets how to make your vacation rental shine!

We're excited to announce another partnership! Hostaway has recently integrated with Doinn. They help you to keep your a...

10 takeaways from the VRMA European Conference last week

Last week, we were in Paris at the VRMA European Conference. Here is a summary of 10 things we took away from presentati...

We want to support you! Customer Support Update

At Hostaway, we strive to better understand our customers and we want to thank you for all the great feedback and questi...

Airbnb Select and what it means for your business as Property Managers

On Thursday 22nd of February 2018, Airbnb announced Airbnb Select and a whole range of changes that will make it easier ...

Customize your Airbnb email address for real-time updates!

We have some exciting news!! You are now able to choose any email address you want for your Airbnb account.

Approve Airbnb inquiries with Hostaway

Dear followers, Airbnb is based on trust and fast communication. For your convenience, and for a better guest experience...

All your Important Short-Term Rental Stats Now on One Page

Dear followers, When you are running a vacation rental property management company, having access to a quick and easy to...

The Complete Beginners Guide to Booking.com

Many Airbnb hosts have increased their daily rates and occupancy by setting up booking.com. While Booking.com is the hid...

Hostaway Support Forum Launched

Thank you for all the great feedback and questions you have been sending us. We apologize for not being able to answer a...

Hostaway Property Manager Software Adds Messaging to Mobile App

Today we have some great news for those of you who are using Hostaway property management software on your mobile phone....

Use the new Automated Messages for Airbnb, Booking.com and HomeAway

The latest release of our automatic messages give you great tools to automate communication on Airbnb, Booking.com, Home...

Hostaway API v1 is launched

Hostaway API v1 is launched! What is an API? Our Advanced Programmatic Interface allows our users to access the Hostaway...

Hostaway is Now Able to Upload your Properties to Booking.com!

Dear followers, we are proud to announce that Hostaway is one of the first software companies in the world that has been...

The Hidden Options of Booking.com

## How to use Booking.com the right way Many of our customers use Booking.com as a way to get reservations at substantia...

Hostaway Websites & Markups

When you a renting out your place on different vacation rental websites, you will see that most of them use there own co...

Vacation Rental Software | The Complete Buyers Guide

What is Vacation Rental Software? Call it short-term rental software, vacation rental software or Airbnb management soft...

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