Resources to support you in your vacation rental journey.
A connected AI can now audit live Nowistay prices, bookings, availability, and local market context, then prepare and apply an approved date-by-date...
Same-day turnovers compress a 3-5 hour cleaning into a 3-4 hour window. Industry market data from April 2025: 89% of US Airbnb listings charge a...
A sub-5-minute Airbnb response time requires answering every message, including overnight and in unfamiliar languages, within minutes. IntelliHost...
Early check-in and late check-out requests land in almost every busy week, driven by flight times, long drives, children and back-to-back stays. This...
Airbnb and Booking.com take 15-20% of every booking, but you don't have to accept that as a fixed cost. Learn how to set up direct bookings with...
Managing cleaning teams across 5, 10, or 15+ vacation rental properties is a coordination nightmare with spreadsheets and group chats. This guide...
Late-night guest messages wear hosts down. Learn how Nowistay's AI co-host replies to guests in about a minute at any hour, how AI off hours let you...
Running a vacation rental while working full-time is possible with the right automation. Learn how AI co-host platforms like Nowistay handle guest...
Booking.com is the world's largest OTA, yet most vacation rental hosts still manage guest messages manually. This complete guide shows you how to...
Growing a vacation rental management company usually means hiring at the same pace as you add properties. This guide shows where AI takes over the...
The short-term rental industry is undergoing a major transformation. Between the multiplication of listings, increasingly demanding guests, and the...
Looking to optimize your Airbnb rental and increase your bookings? Discover the 10 essential amenities that will make all the difference. Bassel, our...
Creating an outstanding Airbnb welcome guide is one of the most effective ways to enhance your guests' experience and boost your property's reviews....
A last-minute cleaner cancellation is a timing problem first: measure the window before check-in, call your backups in order, and warn the guest early...
Airbnb gives concierges a proper way to run a listing they don't own: the owner adds them as a co-host and authorizes their software from the owner's...
Booking.com takes a commission from the host on each booking, at a rate set by country, property type and your agreement. This guide explains what the...
Guesty completed its acquisition of Smily, the French PMS formerly called BookingSync, on 17 September 2026, without announcing anything about prices,...
A furnished holiday rental in France can bring three local taxes for the owner: the CFE business tax, the taxe foncière and the taxe d'habitation on...
Since its fall update of 30 September 2026, Airbnb lets guests search in their own words, shows AI-written descriptions in search results and compares...
France's e-invoicing reform started on 1 September 2026 with an obligation to receive e-invoices, and SMEs must issue them from 1 September 2027. Most...
France's draft budget for 2027, filed on 1 October 2026, would cap the depreciation that non-professional furnished landlords can deduct, with a lower...
From 29 October 2026, Vrbo replaces its 5% plus 3% pay-per-booking fees and the 5% software rate with a single 12% commission paid by hosts. This...
As of October 2026, Airbnb offers no official MCP server, ChatGPT app or Claude connector for hosts, and its API is reserved for approved software...
An AI can answer most guest messages safely if it works from your own property information, hands sensitive requests to you and has been tested before...
Since 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires that people who interact directly with an AI system are told so from the first interaction....
Airbnb is replacing its split service fee with a single 15.5% fee paid by hosts. Hosts in the EEA and Switzerland must adjust their prices by 13...
Many hosts grow a real audience on Instagram or TikTok, then watch those followers book on Airbnb anyway because there is no clean path from a post to...
Many hosts launch a direct-booking website to escape OTA commissions, then watch it sit at the bottom of Google with zero traffic while every...
Most hosts lean almost entirely on Airbnb and either ignore emerging channels or chase ones that never pay back the setup time. This article gives you...
Most hosts collect passport scans and IDs by email or chat, then leave them sitting in an inbox forever. This guide explains why that is a real...
Guest injuries can turn into liability claims or lawsuits, and most hosts have never planned how they would defend one. This guide surveys the...
Most one-star and three-star reviews are not about broken things. They are about the distance between what the listing promised and what the guest...
Standard homeowner and landlord policies usually exclude short-term rental activity, and hosts often find the gap only after a fire, flood, theft, or...
A large, loyal, and underserved group of travelers struggles to find listings with accurate accessibility information, so they book the few hosts who...
Mid-stay refund requests are emotional, time-pressured, and easy to handle badly in either direction. This guide covers the standard ways hosts...
Weekly and monthly discounts are powerful, but most hosts either accept the default or give away margin they never needed to. This guide explains what...
