The tourism trends 2026 describe the movements changing vacation rental this year: regulatory pressure as the number-one challenge, check-in automation only halfway done, AI entering guest experience, and a divided view of how the year will close. Th...
Hotel upsell software is a crowded category where every vendor promises personalized AI, deep PMS integration and dynamic pricing. From the outside, the platforms look interchangeable. The gaps between them only become visible after a few months of u...
How does upselling work in Chekin? A host configures a catalogue of offers once from the dashboard. The system then distributes those offers across the online check-in form, the Digital Guidebook, and the Unified Inbox with AI, which proposes offers ...
Holiday let tax in the UK looks very different in 2026 than it did two years ago. The Furnished Holiday Lettings (FHL) regime that gave short-term rental owners their main fiscal advantages was abolished from 6 April 2025 under the Finance (No. 2) Ac...
Companies that manage Airbnb handle everything from listing creation and pricing to guest messaging, check-ins, cleaning, and regulatory filings. They are not interchangeable. Fees range from 10% to 30% of revenue, service quality swings wildly, and ...
Running a property management company in 2026 looks nothing like it did five years ago. Owners expect higher returns, guests expect frictionless stays, and regulators in every major market keep adding new compliance layers. Most of the margin sits in...
Legal requirements for Airbnb in the UK changed substantially between 2024 and 2026. The Furnished Holiday Letting tax regime is gone. Scotland's licensing scheme is fully enforced. The UK government has confirmed a mandatory short-term rental regist...
The legal framework around short-term letting in the UK changed more between 2022 and 2026 than in the previous twenty years combined. Hosts who started letting a London flat on Airbnb in 2018 with no obligations beyond declaring their income now fac...
If you manage short-term rentals or holiday apartments in Spain, something changed on 2 April 2026 that directly affects how you handle guest check-in. Under Royal Decree 255/2025, every private entity operating in Spain, including vacation rental ma...
Issuing invoices for your vacation rental in Greece is not as straightforward as sending a payment receipt to your guest. Since Law 5073/2023 tightened compliance requirements for short-term rental operators, every professional host must issue certif...
Most property managers know that manual property management costs more than it should. What very few have calculated is exactly how much, broken down by process, by portfolio size, and by the categories of cost that rarely show up on any P&...
Chekin is a check-in automation platform for hotels and short-term rentals, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Seville, Spain. As of May 2026, Chekin serves more than 200,000 properties in over 45 countries, with direct legal integrations into poli...
