Boost your vacation rental bookings with 4 easy tools

Making it easy for travelers to find and book your vacation 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 travelers, there are simple changes 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 vacation 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 traveler search results. 

As you likely know, if a traveler is searching for a three-night stay and your minimum stay requirement is four nights, your property will not show up in that traveler's search results. If you're looking for extra bookings, try a shorter minimum stay to attract guests 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 organize them into a single view of all your reservations.

Learn how to sync your calendars

Regularly review your availability to make sure you have blocked the correct days or ensure 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 travelers.

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 vacation 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 traveler searches for specific dates. It’s simple: the more people that see your listings, the higher the odds that they'll book with you.