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Join host Katie Bessant as she interviews Stefan Hoffelner from Your AirHost. In this episode, Stefan shares expert strategies on how to optimise your holiday rental listings, enhance guest experience, and boost profits through effective marketing, professional photos, guest reviews, and leveraging property management tools.

Join host Katie Bessant as she interviews Paul Honeywell, owner of Oran na Mara on the Isle of Harris. In this episode, Paul shares the rewards and challenges of running a remote holiday rental, from marketing strategies that helped him attract guests to building relationships with the local community. Discover how Paul transformed his unique property into a sought-after destination and the key lessons he’s learned along the way, including tips for new holiday property owners. Paul's insights are sure to inspire!

Join host Katie Bessant as she interviews Dragon's Den star, Derry Green from The Secret Garden Glamping about how to set up your glamping business for success and successful marketing strategies to generate bookings year-round.

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Derry is a entrepreneur and business owner of The Secret Garden Glamping, based in Skelmersdale, who appeared on the BBC’s Dragon’s Den receiving offers from not one but four Dragons; Deborah Maaden, Peter Jones, Sara Davies and Touker Suleyman, to support his niche business. Derry came up with the glamping idea through the covid period when he set up a camp in the family garden as a way to entertain his children.  Before long, using his own self-taught construction skills, he turned the tent into a fully-fledged luxury glamping pod and The Secret Garden Glamping was born.

The Secret Garden Glamping is now the most viewed, most followed and most booked site in the UK and has won many awards including Visit England Award for camping, Glamping and holiday park of the year, The AA Glamping site of The Year and the BiBAs Leisure and Tourism Business of the Year. 

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Join host Katie Bessant as she interviews Laura Delage-Pandeli from Olive & Wilde Interiors about how to use interior design to boost your holiday cottage bookings. During the episode we chat about:

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Join host Katie Bessant as she interviews Jemima Stones about how to use social media to boost your holiday cottage bookings. During the episode we chat about:

Jemima Stones is the Social Media Manager at Cool Stays. She lives by the sea in Deal with her fiance and our cat, Tubby Custard. She's been with Coolstays for 4 years, and was previously a social media manager for a large historic attraction, a gin distillery and has a whole host of experience in the travel and tourism industry.

Coolstays is a digital directory for amazing stays across the UK and Worldwide, think fairytale treehouses, woodland cabins, architectural marvels and quirky country cottages.

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Join host Katie Bessant as she interviews Jane Mack about her experience in the holiday letting industry.

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Jane Mack is the owner of Jane Mack Consulting, providing consultancy and coaching services to the holiday let industry.

Jane and her husband bought a holiday home property management company back in 2010, and decided to expand it to offer advertising and bookings. By 2012 they had created a full holiday letting agency. Their business continued to grow until they sold it to the UK’s largest holiday letting company in 2017.

After a few years of continuing to run and manage the local office for the company, Jane decided that it was time for a change.

After doing training in social media and Facebook Ads to better her knowledge of the ever changing online world, she got her coaching accreditation and put her focus into the holiday let industry.

Having managed over 100 holiday properties, thousands of guests and with 10 years of hands-on experience, she decided to help others in the industry to grow their businesses, just as she had done.

Jane is also a mum of 2 boys and lives on the beautiful Isle of Arran where she enjoys morning runs, big walks and beach BBQ’s.

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