Vacation homes have gained a lot of popularity as tourist accommodation in recent years. Many travelers prefer the benefits of vacation homes (better price per night, greater comfort, greater number of services in the accommodation itself...) over traditional hotel stays.
Due to the increase in demand for homes intended for tourism (VUT) and vacation use , vacation rental platforms have been developed to satisfy this growing need on the part of travelers.
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Vacation rental platforms are websites or applications where a large number of offers are collected to spend the night in different types of tourist accommodation .
These platforms not only help owners make a profit from their property , but also help guests find tourist homes adapted to their needs (closer to the city center, larger or smaller, with a private pool, shared, more or less luxurious…).
Guests will be able to collaborate on the different existing platforms by providing their opinion in the form of a review about a stay . Reviews about homes can be very important both for the potential guest who is thinking of booking, as well as for the interests of the owner, who must make every effort to ensure that the home is in perfect condition.
Among the existing vacation rental platforms, we highlight the following with greater relevance due to popularity and user traffic:
He works with all kinds of tourist accommodations , whether shelters, rural houses, hotels, hostels, camping, holiday apartments (tourist use housing and housing for tourist purposes) chalets, cabins or even bubble hotels. According to the platform itself, 1.5 million daily speakers are reserved through Booking and has been offering tourist accommodation services for more than 20 years.
Booking began offering hotels reservation services and with the passage of time and the needs of travelers, they have known how to correctly pivot and diversify services, since currently, in addition to offering rental and reserve services of accommodation, it also allows you to buy plane tickets and even rent vehicles.
Booking platform allows integration with check in online systems such as Check-in Scan .
Booking system It works by reservation commission, that is, for each reservation made the platform is carried out between 10 and 20% of the total price.
Airbnb is one of the best-known platforms worldwide on which vacation home owners offer their accommodations . Currently, the platform has more than 100 million users and more than 7 million properties in its database. You will not find hotel accommodation on Airbnb, as it is a platform specialized in tourist apartments for travelers looking for a special place.
Airbnb has insurance to protect both guests and owners against possible accidents during their stay .
The Airbnb system also works by reserve commission , as well as Booking , but with some variation. The percentage of commission per reserve that takes the platform is between 14% and 17% . This commission can be paid in 2 ways:
The Expedia Vacation Rental Platform has a very similar operation to Booking , that is, you can reserve stays in multiple tourist accommodations. However, with expedia, cruise packages can also be reserved.
With the Expedia platform, the owner will be able to advertise his tourist home and when it comes to promoting the publication, it will be done on all the group's platforms (Vrbo, hotels.com...). On the other hand, you can also convert to a premium member by meeting certain requirements so that the publications have a greater reach.
The percentage of commission per reservation that the platform takes varies between 10% and 30% .
Previously, this platform was called HomeAway . It has been in operation since 1995 and is currently part of the Expedia group .
It is a platform similar to Airbnb , but it is more specialized in family groups , publishing only complete properties or vacation homes. On Vrbo, you can speak directly with guests from the first moment .
Vrbo allows homeowners to rent larger homes more easily than on any other platform.
The platform offers its users an annual fee instead of working on a commission-per-booking system.
Google Vacation Rentals is an integrated platform in Google Travel that allows users to search and compare vacation accommodations directly from the Google and Google Maps search engine. Unlike other platforms, Google does not act as an intermediary in reservations, but redirect users to the OA website or associated platforms to complete the reservation.
Users can apply filters such as input and output dates, number of guests, price, type of property and services offered to refine your search. When selecting a property, the user is redirected to the owner's website or an associated platform (such as Airbnb, VRBO or Booking .com) to complete the reservation.
It belongs to the idealist group, it is another of the best-known and most used medium-term and vacation rental platforms in Spain . It also has properties in popular tourist destinations in Europe such as Portugal, Croatia and the French Riviera.
On this platform, the guest does not pay commission or other types of expenses for the reservation; However, the owner can start publishing with a one-month free trial and from then on must pay a reservation commission percentage of 10% or a fixed amount of €120 .
Platform belonging to the Room Mate group and directed by the Spanish businessman Kike Sarasola. This platform aims to improve the guest experience by offering a service very similar to that of hotels in tourist apartments.
Tourist apartment rental platform belonging to the TripAdvisor group . With this platform, you can publish a property for free , or for a fee if you want to obtain greater visibility in the publications.
Agoda is a accommodation reservation platform founded in 2005 in Singapore and is currently part of the Booking Holdings , as well as Booking .com. Although it is especially strong in the Asian market , it has expanded its global presence, offering more than 4 million accommodation worldwide, including hotels, apartments, hostels and villas.
Agoda offers an extensive variety of accommodation options worldwide, which provides users with many alternatives to choose from. The owners can announce their properties without initial cost, and the commission for reservation usually is 15%, depending on the location.
Being part of Booking Holdings, Agoda benefits from a solid technological infrastructure and a wide network of users.
From Check-in Scan we have integration with the leading vacation rental platforms in the sector .
In the event that any tourist housing owner works directly with any of these platforms, with Check-in Scan can forget about the management of check -ins and sending them to the authorities because the tool will already do it automatically Thanks to integration.
