Everyone with a holiday rental wants to increase the number of bookings they get. With HomeAway you can enhance your listing to receive even more visitors if you follow the eight essential steps outlined here.
1. Is your calendar up to date?
It should be. There is nothing more frustrating for a potential guest than enquiring about an available week when actually it’s not available at all. It could put them off enquiring about other available weeks.
2. Make sure you provide your rates
People don’t tend to enquire about a holiday let unless they know roughly what it will cost them to stay there. Listing your rates means people can make an informed choice before they contact you. It will save you time as well.
3. Enable the zoom feature on your map
Make it easier for people to see exactly where your holiday rental is. Many people book holidays depending on where a property is located. If they want to visit particular locations, the zoom feature can tell them how close your property is to those locations.
4. Upload more photos
With a maximum of 24 photos to use to enhance your listing, it makes sense to use all of them. Stage them carefully and ensure you have good lighting to make sure that each one reflects that particular room or area of your property as well as it can.
5. Request reviews from previous guests
Reviews help sell your property. Request them from previous guests who have stayed at your holiday rental and use them to help gain more bookings. The more reviews you have the more likely it is you will be more successful in getting booked up throughout the year.
6. Add a map marker so people can see where your holiday rental is
A map marker makes it easy for people to see where your property is located. They may be looking for a property in your area and by providing this marker you are letting them know your rough location at a glance.
7. Accept payments online
What better way to pay for a stay in a holiday rental than to pay online? With more people getting used to online payments it makes sense to enable them for your holiday rental too. Removing some of the barriers to bookings means you’ll get more of them.
8. Auto renew your tenure when it is due
When you are listing your holiday let with HomeAway, you must make sure you renew on an annual basis to keep your listing active. The longer you have been on the site, the more trust people will place in you when considering whether or not to stay in your property. By automatically renewing your listing before it becomes due, you’ll gradually build up a longer tenure.
By focusing on these individual points you can improve your listing and therefore your bookings as well. It takes time to become established but when you are you can enjoy the benefits of getting more bookings and more interest expressed in your holiday rental. What more could you want?
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