Short-term rental hosts and property managers can learn everything they need to know about guest screening in today's Host Planet Bitesize, sponsored by Hostfully.

Autohost President and Co-Founder Ela Mezhiborsky is our special guest – and she's got five need-to-know facts about guest screening.

Key takeaways:

• Discover what Airbnb and Booking.com are doing to screen your guests

• There is not a one-size-fits-all guest screening solution

• Hosts must educate themselves on data privacy and security

0:00 Episode starts

1:13 Fact number one: you need to have something in place

2:58 Fact number two: standardisation of your process is key to avoid loopholes

6:50 Fact number three: guest screening is not one-size-fits-all

9:33 Fact number four: educate yourself on data privacy and security

11:40 Fact number five: guest screening is getting more and more sophisticated (and frightening!)

15:43 What Airbnb and Booking.com are doing in relation to guest screening

18:44 Autohost

Host Planet Bitesize is sponsored by Hostfully. Need a great PMS or digital guidebook? Give Hostfully a try (your first guidebook is free!): https://get.hostfully.com/46p7pafubra1

Host Planet: https://www.hostplanet.club/

James Varley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdsvarley/

Ela Mezhiborsky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elamezhiborsky/

Autohost: https://www.autohost.ai/

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Learn How To Take Great Photos For Your Airbnb: https://youtu.be/vi9XiAQ1H-0

Host Planet Bitesize is presented by James Varley, a holiday let investor and property manager who is also the Founder of Host Planet. Before founding Host Planet, James spent 20 years in the media, including a decade leading corporate communications for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.

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