Holiday rentals

Access a world of valuable travellers

Grow your holiday rental business by welcoming guests who spend more, stay longer and bring the whole family.

List your property

Attract quality guests

When you list your property on Vrbo, you can attract entire families or groups that care about who they’re with as much as where they go. They get quality time, you get quality guests.

Maximise your holiday rental bookings

Longer stays

Vrbo travellers stay longer.¹

Earlier bookings

Vrbo travellers book earlier.¹

Higher spend

Vrbo travellers spend more.¹

Expand your holiday rental business with flexible tools

Make informed decisions with comprehensive tools and insights to help maximise revenue. Our solutions are built to meet your specific needs and support your revenue growth strategy.

Stand out to travellers

From the ability to offer discounts for new listings or monthly rentals, to special badging and placement in search results for properties that deliver the best guest experience, our tools offer a variety of ways for your property to be noticed.

Make data-backed decisions

MarketMaker® delivers detailed, real-time market data to help you make informed rate decisions, improve performance and build revenue—from peak season to off-season and everything in between.

Seamlessly manage communication

Keep in touch with your guests from booking to checkout with our guest relation tools. Convert traveller enquiries and booking requests into reservations through our dashboard or your connectivity software—on your desktop or on the go.

Manage your business your way

Whether you want to improve efficiency or scale your operations, our technology can help.

Oversee your business with our owner dashboard

This one-stop shop gives you an easy way to manage your business. Easily accessible on your desktop or the mobile app, use it to accept bookings, communicate with guests and act on opportunities to drive more bookings.

 

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Scale your business with connectivity software

Save time, improve accuracy and grow bookings with a holiday rental connectivity software provider. From channel managers to property management systems and other tools, over 100 global holiday rental software companies integrate our lodging APIs to offer powerful capabilities to help you perform your best.

 

Learn more about our Connectivity Partner Programme

Explore our holiday rental software, Escapia

For more than 20 years, Escapia has offered professional property managers an easy-to-use, innovative holiday rental solution that helps them reach and exceed their goals. Escapia is trusted by more than 900 leading property management companies globally.

 

Explore Escapia

Host with peace of mind

Feel secure and confident about opening your door to Vrbo guests.

Mitigate fraud risks

Our fraud-detection engine reduces the risk of fraudulent transactions on our platform and fraud-related chargebacks.

We’ve got you covered

Our hosts are protected by US$1M Liability Insurance for all stays processed by Vrbo, at no extra cost to the owner.

Your security comes first

Verified travellers, two-way reviews, misconduct reports, disaster support and secure communication are part of our platform.

‘I got my first booking within 24 hours [of listing my property], and then they just kept coming. And the bookings are for longer stays, too, which is better for my business.’

Jenny Myers

Owner, Ohio cabin

A bedroom in a cabin

Set travellers up for a great stay

Provide seamless shopping, planning, booking and communication to keep guests coming back.

Easy planning

Travellers who use Vrbo Trip Planner are 3x more likely to shop across multiples lines of business, and their repeat visit rate is 4x higher.²

Trip protection

Guests rest easy with our Book with Confidence Guarantee™.

Mobile convenience

Guests can book on the go—anywhere, any time—using our travel app.

Experience more demand with One Key™—our travel rewards programme

Learn how the One Key travel rewards programme accelerates demand for you by giving travellers what they want most—flexibility.

Discover One Key

Unlock a world of opportunity

This comprehensive travel rewards programme is the first of its kind for holiday rentals. One Key unifies Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo into one simple and easy-to-use programme. It allows travellers to earn and use rewards with all three brands and across different eligible trip elements such as hotels, holiday rentals, flights, car hire and more. Added flexibility for travellers means increased demand for you.

One Key can help you attract incremental demand from travellers who spend more and book more often, compared to non-members.³

 

The programme is building loyalty with hundreds of millions of members around the world, which means more demand for your holiday rental property.

In addition to the incremental demand, One Key was built to benefit your business:

  • Positively impact your bottom line with Expedia Group-funded OneKeyCash™, our new rewards currency. Members can earn OneKeyCash any way they travel—and they could use it on eligible trips with you.⁴
  • Reach the guests you want to attract. Our programme assesses member eligibility annually (as opposed to qualifying for life), so you know you’re always targeting our most frequent travellers.

Already a partner?

Log in to your owner dashboard to manage your operations.

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Frequently asked questions

Sign up
 

To list your property with Vrbo, visit vrbo.com/list and follow the instructions—signing up is free, fast and easy.

 

You will need the following information to sign up:
 

  • Property address
  • Number of bedrooms/bathrooms
  • Contact details for ongoing correspondence

 

Set up your listing
 

Now it’s time to describe your property. We’ll prompt you for the details travellers want and the amenities you offer. The information you enter will save automatically, so it’s easy to come back if you don’t have all the answers.

 

Here’s what you’ll need:
 

  • Property type
  • Listing headline and description
  • Accommodates (number of people)
  • Details about rooms, layout, bed size, etc.
  • A list of available amenities—from Wi-Fi to swimming pool
  • Rates by season and length of stay
  • Pictures of rooms, common spaces and amenities
  • A list of fees, deposits and policies
  • The dates you’re available to welcome guests


That’s it! Soon, your property will be live and available to millions of travellers researching trips in our marketplace. When you receive a booking, you’ll be able to message the guest, providing and requesting information to help you anticipate needs and streamline check-in.

There is no up-front cost associated with listing your property on Vrbo. When you receive bookings, you will pay a fee per booking.

Booking fees consist of a 3% payment processing fee and a 5% commission fee.

Our easy-to-use owner dashboard will be the primary location for managing your reservations, updating rates and keeping your listing up to date.

 

If you are a professional property manager with multiple holiday rentals, you may want to use a connectivity provider to manage your day-to-day operations and listings on Vrbo. Professional property managers using software can log in to the owner dashboard to get access to advanced tools such as MarketMaker and Boost, but they use third-party connectivity software to collect and process payments, manage inventory and respond to guests.

Holiday rental connectivity providers offer seamless solutions to manage your business operations efficiently at scale—so you can save time, improve accuracy and grow bookings.

 

You don’t need to work with a connectivity software provider to list your property and get bookings on Vrbo. However, if you have more than five properties, using a connectivity software provider will help you manage your properties more easily and effectively.

 

See the list of the connectivity providers integrated with Vrbo and learn more about our Connectivity Partner Programme here.

 

If you are a professional property manager using software and you want to connect with Vrbo, please contact us via our on-boarding form.

We answer common questions and provide deeper instructions for using our technology on the Vrbo Help page. You can contact our support teams directly through this page as well.

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¹Compared to other competitors, Expedia Group internal data, 2022.

²Expedia Group internal data, 2023.

³Expedia Group, global bookings on Expedia.com and Hotels.com, 2022.

⁴OneKeyCash is not redeemable for cash and can only be used on Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo. OneKeyCash redemption is only available to properties using USD currency and those not integrated with property management software.