Ten Proven Tips to Keep Your Luxury Vacation Rental on Top in 2007
An Owner’s Manual for the Operation of Luxury Vacation Rentals
Over the last two years we have given a lot of advice on how to market and manage your property to achieve maximum occupancy and profitability. These are things we have learned through years of operating our own vacation rental development. We don’t claim to have all the answers. We are still learning and constantly adapting to changing market conditions. As we learn new strategies and techniques we share them with our readers, primarily though this newsletter, but also in the blogs that appear regularly on VacationRental.org.
A key thing that separates us from other vacation rental directories and from other “experts “ offering advice on vacation rentals is the fact that we are actively engaged in the business. We are the only news source that constantly analyzes the lodging and tourism business from the viewpoint of the individual vacation rentals owner. We apply what we learn to the advice we give our readers as well as to our own vacation rental development.
The ten tips that we offer here have proven they work for us and have enabled us to maintain year-round occupancy rates of over 80 per cent. We believe that they will work for you as well. They are the following:
- Achieve marketing independence in 2007
- Achieve property management independence in 2007
- Under promise and over deliver.
- Make your property truly unique.
- Partner with local restaurants and other businesses.
- Target the high-end vacation rental market
- Use good photography to showcase the desirable features of your property.
- Build your own brand for your vacation rental business.
- Use our proven techniques to maximize occupancy in off-peak period.
- Make the core of your business a loyal group of repeat customers.
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