Resources for hospitality teams
Practical guides, industry insights, and proven workflows for vacation rental hosts and property managers.
A turnover checklist earns its keep in the order the work happens, not in the number of items on it. Twelve points, running from the strip to the staged photo, with the four that get skipped marked — and an honest account of what no checklist will ever catch.
A cleaner who doesn't turn up at six leaves you one working night and no spare name on the roster. Here's the order to work down: ten minutes of checks, four calls on a fixed clock, the cut-off that moves the guest instead, and one page written afterwards.
A rate that doesn't arrive leaves a shape, and the shape names the cause: nothing at all, some of it, or everything one day out. Mapping, rate plan and date are the three failures behind almost every case, and they're distinguishable before you escalate.
A pricing tool pays for itself at a number of extra nights, and that number is your subscription divided by what a night nets you. Work it out before you subscribe, because the tool's own dashboard can't tell you whether it earned its fee.
Santa Barbara's two rules work on different parts of a small portfolio. A two-night minimum removes a category of booking and leaves one-night holes in the calendar; a licence issued to a person puts the ceiling on licences held rather than doors owned.
Swiss short-let rules are cantonal and municipal, so the first question isn't what the limit is but which test applies to your address. Three cities ask three different questions, and the file that satisfies one won't satisfy the next.
From January 2027 the Spanish return arrives quarterly, as reported. The form is short; the work is the record behind it, because a stay sold in July is being described in October from whatever you wrote down at the time.
Three comparables tell you whether you're out of line and stay few enough to keep you honest. This is how to choose them, what to write down once a month, and how to tell a real pricing signal from a difference in the room itself.
A promotion badge buys a line of text on a results page and a discount on every night the campaign covers. Whether that trade pays is arithmetic you can do before it starts: count the nights that would have sold anyway, price the discount across all of them, and work out how many extra nights the badge has to bring in.
A price on its own doesn't rank a listing. What a platform compares is how your listing behaves against the ones shown on the same dates, and that comparison is observable from the guest side. Here's what the comparison contains, where price enters it, and the weekly check that keeps you honest.
