Hospitable Town Hall, January 24th, 2024

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Hosting Operations
intermediate
parent-child listings
direct booking
Vrbo integration
smart locks
Google vacation rentals
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Summary

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This town hall covers crucial updates for short-term rental hosts, including new features like parent-child property relationships, direct booking enhancements with a quotes system, and smart lock improvements. It also addresses ongoing challenges with channel integrations, particularly Vrbo, and provides insights into Google vacation rentals performance.

Key insights

  • Hospitable is working on improving email templates for manual and direct channels, with plans to introduce modern templates, customizable display names, and subject lines, eventually leading to custom domain support and brand integration.

Mistakes to avoid

  • Hosts should not list vacation rentals on Google Business profiles; these are separate entities from Google Travel, and vacation rental listings on Google Business may be shut down.

Tools & resources

  • Devices Dashboardtool

    Hospitable is developing a Devices Dashboard to provide a centralized view of all connected devices (including smart locks) and allow real-time management and actions.

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