The Holiday Let Success Podcast with Elaine Watt

Sheli Grumet joins me from Guesty where she is Marketplace Business Development Manager. Guesty’s Marketplace is a collection of providers that offer services that contribute to Guesty's mission - tech that reduces the workloads of short-term property managers and provides the right tools to grow their businesses.

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Karen Mullins joins me from HomeAway, where she is Regional Managing Director for the UK and Ireland. HomeAway is a holiday rental marketplace offering more than 2,000,000 holiday rentals globally and was one of the very first listing sites to the Short Stay Industry

Karen shares how the site is evolving with the Industry and is here to stay and shares her valuable insight in how to get the best out of the platform as Short Stay Providers and Karen also shares her unique insight into where she feels the Industry as a whole is headed for the future.

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Mark Simpson joins me from Boostly, the marketing agency for The Hospitality Industry, where he is founder - with 20 years in the Hospitality Industry and a mind for marketing and online tech, Mark has built up a wealth of knowledge on how to get your Short Stay to stand out from the crowd and take control of your own marketing as an accommodation provider

www.hlspodcast.com/marksimpson

Deborah Heather joins me from Quality In Tourism, as part of M-Assessment services, they help Hospitality owners assure guests that their host is dedicated to high standards within their business to ensure a memorable guest experience.

Take a look at the show notes and get in touch with Deborah at www.hlspodcast.com/qualityintourism

Simon Smith joins me from Lune Living - the UK Company dedicated to providing fine fabrics that are sourced ethically and are ecologically thoughtful, both in production and in the ongoing care of the fabrics. The Smith family have been producing fabrics since 1884, and have constantly evolved to meet the concerns of both their customers and the planet. For holiday home owners, keeping costs and their carbon footprint low is something that affects not only our bottom line, but how we plan to build a sustainable short stay industry for the future.

Lune have very kindly offered a 15% Discount for Holiday Let Success Listeners - full details on how to claim your 15% Discount in the podcast.

Listen today www.hlspodcast.com/lune

Fred Lerche-Lerchenborg joins me from Lavanda, the award-winning SaaS that is shaping the future of Short Stay Businesses, giving them the foundations on which to grow, scale & distribute

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Top Hog Humphrey Bowles joins me from GuardHog - GuardHog have created a seamless Tech experience for Hosts that ensures you only insure your Short Term Let for the duration of the bookings you have, offering a no nonsense way to cover and save in one dashboard.

http://hlspodcast.com/guardhog

Vered Schwarz joins me from Guesty, where she is COO. Guesty is an end-to-end property management platform for short-term rentals, providing users with features including a multi-calendar tool that syncs all their listings, a unified inbox that syncs all messages across several channels in one place, automated task capabilities, 24/7 guest communication services and more. Recently the company raised $35M in Series C funding, bringing it’s total number raised to $60M, making it the highest-funded short-term property management platform on the market.

Vered also talks to me about Women in the Industry and her recent article in Entrepreneur Magazine.

Take a look at the full episode show notes right here www.hlspodcast.com/guesty

On 8th November 2019, the very first Short Stay Show Summit took place at the Hotel Hesperia Tower in Barcelona. Here’s what went down!

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Short Stay Show Podcast - Big Data & Marketing - Graham Donoghue - Sykes Cottages

Graham Donoghue is CEO at Sykes Holiday Cottages, the leading and fastest-growing independent holiday cottage provider, offering over 17,000 holiday homes across the UK, Ireland and New Zealand.

"We are the fastest growing independent holiday cottage provider." Graham Donaghue

Graham joined me on the podcast to tell us what an experience of advertising your holiday home with Sykes Holiday Cottages entails - he shares the huge growth that Sykes has seen over the past 3 years and an insight into the future plans of this fast moving company.

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