Boost your holiday rental bookings with 4 easy tools

Making it easy for travellers to find and book your holiday rental is the first step to increasing your occupancy rates and revenue. As a host, whether your calendar is relatively full or you are looking for new ways to attract more travellers, there are simple changes that you can always make to boost your property’s visibility and ensure you don’t miss out on bookings.

Many hosts have a minimum stay requirement for their holiday rental property, and often for good reason. You will want to make sure, however, that this setting is always up to date and reflects your current requirements in order to avoid unnecessary declines and cancellations. If your calendar is flexible, even better; you can shorten your minimum stay to show up in more traveller search results. 

As you probably know, if a traveller is searching for a three-night stay and your minimum stay requirement is four nights, your property will not show up in that traveller’s search results. If you’re looking for extra bookings, try a shorter minimum stay to attract guests all year round and fill more of those available nights in your calendar. You may also want to consider highlighting minimum stay details in your listing description to help potential guests easily see this information before they check calendar availability.

Set minimum stay requirements

Sometimes the best advice is a simple reminder of something you already know, so remember: keeping your calendar up to date is a great way to increase your acceptance rate success. 

Calendar syncing is especially helpful for owners who list across multiple platforms to avoid double bookings and incorrectly blocked dates. With this tool, you can import and export calendars and bookings across multiple platforms and organise them into a single view of all your reservations.

Learn how to sync your calendars

Review your availability regularly to make sure that you have blocked the correct days or ensure that a recent sync pulled in the correct block. You can also test different search dates on your property to see if your calendar is showing the correct availability to travellers.

This can help you avoid double bookings, incorrectly blocked dates and other factors that can lead to unnecessary cancellations.

Review your calendar

By adjusting these simple settings in your listings, you stay on top of all your bookings and give guests an easy, seamless first interaction with your holiday rental. If change makes you nervous, start with small adjustments and go from there. When you do, you will see that these tools can help your property appear in more traveller searches for specific dates. It’s simple: the more people who see your listings, the higher the odds that they’ll book with you.