Increase Your Vacation Rental Business with Happy Guests
Increase Your Vacation Rental Business with Happy Guests
September 28, 2018
In 2018, vacation rental guests expect more. Connecting with modern travelers, therefore, requires business innovation and interactive vacation services. In order to run a successful property management company, you need to find new ways to make your guests happy, while also adding revenue to your bottom line.
Through 20+ years in the vacation business, we’ve learned that all travelers enjoy security, well-maintained properties, and exciting experiences. This is good news for vacation rental managers. By connecting your business with the right companies, you will give your guests a better vacation rental experience.
Three Travel Companies who will Make You More
With so many great travel companies, there are lots of ways to give your guests more. The key is integrating new services that both improve your guests’ experience and grow your business. In this article, we’ll highlight three travel companies—Red Sky, Breezeway, and Xplorie—who will help you make more while also making your guests happy.
Give Your Guests Security – Red Sky Travel Insurance
Vacations are for worry-free relaxation. That’s why most travelers will gladly pay for insurance. It gives them peace of mind before and during their stay. If you aren’t currently offering travel insurance, you’re missing out on a big business opportunity.
“Travel insurance, like Xplorie’s product offerings, is one of the only product offerings I know of that costs the VRMC nothing, nothing at all,” said Laird Sager, Founder/President of Red Sky Travel Insurance. “Successful promoters of travel insurance find it to be a huge source of revenue, adding meaningful net income and enhancing the value of their businesses. The true benefit is that travel insurance is the best solution for guests, homeowners, and VRMCs when unforeseen events affect guest’s vacation plans.”
To sell travel insurance effectively, it’s important to work with companies who understand the vacation rental business. Red Sky works solely with professionally managed vacation rental management companies. They make it easy to seamlessly add insurance at check out, cater their insurance packages to your destination, and provide excellent service to your guests.
Deliver a Professional Experience – Breezeway
Maintaining vacation rental properties is a hard job. Every unit is different, your staff is spread out, and your guests expect a hotel-like experience. Luckily there are businesses who work specifically with vacation rental manages to improve the efficiency of their operations.
“With higher consumer expectations and the convergence of hotel like experiences, managers are being pushed to provide more service to the properties in their portfolio,” said Ben Firn, Breezeway’s Marketing Manager. “Despite interacting with properties multiple times a week, managers are not properly monetizing their services because much of this work is never billed or shared with property owners. Breezeway’s smart technology helps dozens of managers capture and organize every touch point and enables them to show all the work that was done to carefully maintain each home. Property care and ensuring the quality of the property management program will have a massive impact on the industry in the next few years and managers that can harness this trend will monetize owner relationship and grow their revenue.”
By integrating your property and inventory data with your cleaning and maintenance operations, Breezeway drives business efficiency. You will save time and money on operations and deliver a seamless vacation rental experience. Even better, owners will thank you, because you’ll take great care of their property, which leads to longer contracts and referral business that will grow your inventory.
Create Exciting Experiences – Xplorie
Your guests come to you in search of experiences. When you provide them with a special memory, like a free dolphin cruise or a ticket to a special show, they won’t forget it. Providing free experiences is a great way to build long-term loyalty and separate your business from your competitors. You also build strong relationships with activity providers who will treat your guests as if they are very important customers.
“In addition to delivering a best in class guest experience program and partnering in growth with local activity providers, by providing an activity program to the properties in your portfolio, you are immediately increasing the value of the home for the owners – without them spending a penny,” said Debi Steigerwald, VP of Marketing at Xplorie. “The only way to increase rates and drive incremental revenue in this space, for your owners, has always been to put some profit for improvements back into the property. Now you can increase revenue at the same rate as if you had added a hot tub or even updated the kitchen or bathroom.”
At Xplorie, we know that exciting experiences make travelers happy. By providing free-to-guest activity programs, we work to grow your bottom line. You will get credit for the fun things your guests do while they’re staying with you and you will add genuine value to their vacation.
The More You Give, the More You Get
Giving your guests more is an important part of being a vacation rental manager. And it’s even better when giving your guests more puts money in your pocket. Thanks for checking out our three travel companies who will make you more by making your guests happy. We enjoy helping vacation rental managers succeed. Check out our other property management tips for more awesome advice.
September 28, 2018
In 2018, vacation rental guests expect more. Connecting with modern travelers, therefore, requires business innovation and interactive vacation services. In order to run a successful property management company, you need to find new ways to make your guests happy, while also adding revenue to your bottom line.
Through 20+ years in the vacation business, we’ve learned that all travelers enjoy security, well-maintained properties, and exciting experiences. This is good news for vacation rental managers. By connecting your business with the right companies, you will give your guests a better vacation rental experience.
Three Travel Companies who will Make You More
With so many great travel companies, there are lots of ways to give your guests more. The key is integrating new services that both improve your guests’ experience and grow your business. In this article, we’ll highlight three travel companies—Red Sky, Breezeway, and Xplorie—who will help you make more while also making your guests happy.
Give Your Guests Security – Red Sky Travel Insurance
Vacations are for worry-free relaxation. That’s why most travelers will gladly pay for insurance. It gives them peace of mind before and during their stay. If you aren’t currently offering travel insurance, you’re missing out on a big business opportunity.
“Travel insurance, like Xplorie’s product offerings, is one of the only product offerings I know of that costs the VRMC nothing, nothing at all,” said Laird Sager, Founder/President of Red Sky Travel Insurance. “Successful promoters of travel insurance find it to be a huge source of revenue, adding meaningful net income and enhancing the value of their businesses. The true benefit is that travel insurance is the best solution for guests, homeowners, and VRMCs when unforeseen events affect guest’s vacation plans.”
To sell travel insurance effectively, it’s important to work with companies who understand the vacation rental business. Red Sky works solely with professionally managed vacation rental management companies. They make it easy to seamlessly add insurance at check out, cater their insurance packages to your destination, and provide excellent service to your guests.
Deliver a Professional Experience – Breezeway
Maintaining vacation rental properties is a hard job. Every unit is different, your staff is spread out, and your guests expect a hotel-like experience. Luckily there are businesses who work specifically with vacation rental manages to improve the efficiency of their operations.
“With higher consumer expectations and the convergence of hotel like experiences, managers are being pushed to provide more service to the properties in their portfolio,” said Ben Firn, Breezeway’s Marketing Manager. “Despite interacting with properties multiple times a week, managers are not properly monetizing their services because much of this work is never billed or shared with property owners. Breezeway’s smart technology helps dozens of managers capture and organize every touch point and enables them to show all the work that was done to carefully maintain each home. Property care and ensuring the quality of the property management program will have a massive impact on the industry in the next few years and managers that can harness this trend will monetize owner relationship and grow their revenue.”
By integrating your property and inventory data with your cleaning and maintenance operations, Breezeway drives business efficiency. You will save time and money on operations and deliver a seamless vacation rental experience. Even better, owners will thank you, because you’ll take great care of their property, which leads to longer contracts and referral business that will grow your inventory.
Create Exciting Experiences – Xplorie
Your guests come to you in search of experiences. When you provide them with a special memory, like a free dolphin cruise or a ticket to a special show, they won’t forget it. Providing free experiences is a great way to build long-term loyalty and separate your business from your competitors. You also build strong relationships with activity providers who will treat your guests as if they are very important customers.
“In addition to delivering a best in class guest experience program and partnering in growth with local activity providers, by providing an activity program to the properties in your portfolio, you are immediately increasing the value of the home for the owners – without them spending a penny,” said Debi Steigerwald, VP of Marketing at Xplorie. “The only way to increase rates and drive incremental revenue in this space, for your owners, has always been to put some profit for improvements back into the property. Now you can increase revenue at the same rate as if you had added a hot tub or even updated the kitchen or bathroom.”
At Xplorie, we know that exciting experiences make travelers happy. By providing free-to-guest activity programs, we work to grow your bottom line. You will get credit for the fun things your guests do while they’re staying with you and you will add genuine value to their vacation.
The More You Give, the More You Get
Giving your guests more is an important part of being a vacation rental manager. And it’s even better when giving your guests more puts money in your pocket. Thanks for checking out our three travel companies who will make you more by making your guests happy. We enjoy helping vacation rental managers succeed. Check out our other property management tips for more awesome advice.
