Recently, I came cross this article excerpt written by industry expert think PhoCusWright. The jist of the article is that the traveler community does not select vacation rentals only on obvious factors, like cost and location. Many travelers are looking for a specific kind of travel experience, and they actually don’t care where they go, [...]
Every vacation rental property owner gets questions from prospective renters like: How far away from the beach is your unit? How do I get to your property? Where is the nearest grocery store? Do you have a map of the area? Community Walk (www.communitywalk.com) provides a great utility to build custom maps that showcase Sample [...]
I’m always looking for ways to show off my unit, recently I learned of a great FREE new 3D photo-stitching service offered by Microsoft. What is 3D photo-stitching? Its sewing together a number of images to form a larger composite image. The technology has been around for a while and is used to create [...]
Most search engines provide a way for business to manually enter their own information on their maps and search results. While just posting won’t ensure you come up at the top, or even the first page. If you list your rental properties address it pick your keywords right, you may come up in a geographic [...]
The amount of information you can post on most vacation rental hosting site is limited to a few photo’s and limited text. Do you have documents, links, photos, videos, virtual tours, or other media and information relating to your rental that you frequently share with your tenants? I do! I recently found a great service [...]