The 2025/26 tax year is the first one where furnished holiday let capital allowances no longer exist. The regime was abolished from 6 April 2025, and for many holiday let owners, the full financial impact is only now becoming clear as they file for t...
Everyone selling a hotel PMS right now tells you the same thing: cloud-native, AI-powered, API-first. The demos look great. The marketing is polished. Almost none of it explains what’s actually happening. The hotel PMS industry in 2026 isn̵...
Managing short-term rentals or a hotel portfolio means juggling guest communication, compliance requirements, and smooth access—often across multiple properties and tight turnaround times. And when last-minute bookings happen after reception hours,...
Every hotel has revenue sitting uncaptured. Guests arrive willing to spend more than their room rate, but no one asks at the right moment, in the right way. This guide covers what hotel upselling is, why it works, when to offer it, the best examples ...
Most holiday rental properties look the same. Beige sofa, generic prints on the walls, a dining table that seats four. Guests scroll past them in seconds. The properties that get booked consistently are the ones that look like someone actually though...
Most hotel managers track their own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR. Fewer know whether those numbers are actually good for their market. An STR report — also known as a hotel STAR report — gives you that context. A 75% occupancy rate looks strong unti...
Pet owners don’t leave their animals behind anymore. Increasingly, they book around them. 52% of travelers now base their travel plans on whether a destination accommodates their pet. 60% say a holiday isn’t truly a holiday without their ...
Most hotels are leaving significant revenue on the table, not because they’re underpricing rooms or running at low occupancy, but because they’re only measuring half the picture. TRevPAR (Total Revenue Per Available Room) counts everythin...
Most hotels treat messaging as a cost center. A channel to manage. A stream of guest questions that takes staff time to answer and rarely produces anything beyond a resolved complaint. That framing is wrong, and it’s expensive. Hotel messaging ...
If you manage short-term rentals, one of the most important parts of your business is not only the property itself, but how travelers find and book it. That is where vacation rental distribution comes in. Many property managers think distribution sim...
Failing to meet Airbnb guest expectations is one of the fastest ways to get negative reviews, complaints, and operational headaches. The problem is not usually the property itself. It is the gap between what the guest expects and what actually happen...
Many hoteliers know they need to modernize operations, but that does not mean they know where to begin. The idea sounds simple enough: automate repetitive tasks, save time, reduce errors, and improve the guest experience. In practice, it often feels ...
