Blog Category: Direct Booking

Mastering UK Vacation Rentals: How an Airbnb Channel Manager Fuels Direct Bookings

An Airbnb channel manager is an essential tool for UK property managers seeking to streamline operations across multiple booking platforms. It syncs availability, rates, and bookings between OTAs like Airbnb

Best Direct Booking Website for Short-Term Rentals: Boost Revenue with Branded Search

For an STR manager overseeing multiple properties, maximising revenue while reducing reliance on Booking.com and Airbnb type websites. One powerful strategy is increasing branded search traffic – when guests search

Airbnb Management: Best Practices for Contactless Check-In to Boost Direct Bookings

In today’s fast-paced short-term rental market, Airbnb management is about creating efficient, seamless guest experiences at scale. One of the most important advancements in professional Airbnb property management is the

How Vacation Rental Automation Streamlines Property Management and Boosts Direct Bookings

Managing multiple short-term rental properties can quickly become overwhelming. From handling guest enquiries around the clock to coordinating cleanings, the workload multiplies with every new listing. Without streamlined processes, even

Maximising Rental Income: Trust-Building with Zeevou

Managing several vacation rentals requires a focus on how to maximise rental income, not just filling up the calendar. By leveraging a dynamic pricing strategy and revenue optimisation techniques, you

Maximising ROI in Property: Why Direct Bookings Matter

In the vacation rental industry, measuring success goes beyond occupancy rates or five-star reviews – it comes down to profitability. One of the most important financial metrics for rental property

Vacation Rental Website SEO: How to Drive More Direct Traffic and Bookings

In today’s competitive short-term rental market, simply listing your property on major booking platforms isn’t enough to stand out. For hosts managing large portfolios, relying solely on OTAs can limit

Hospitality Trends 2025: What the Direct Booking Report Reveals

Direct bookings have become essential for maximising profitability, building stronger guest relationships, and reducing reliance on third-party platforms in today’s hospitality landscape. Reports show that in 2024, hotel websites made

How Reducing Property Management Cost Leads to Profitable Direct Bookings

When managing 10 or more vacation rentals, every operational decision has a ripple effect. Success isn’t just measured in bookings, but in how efficiently and profitably your business grows. One

Property Marketing Tips to Attract Direct Bookings

As a host managing 10+ properties, scaling your business requires more than just keeping your calendar full. It’s about strategically growing your brand and driving direct bookings. Effective property marketing

All You Need to Know about Direct Booking Website Domains

In today's digital age, having a strong online presence is crucial for businesses in the hospitality industry...

Creating Your Dream Vacation Rental Website: Do’s and Don’ts

In today’s digital age, a well-designed and user-friendly website is crucial for the success of your vacation rental business...

Boost Your Airbnb Business with a Vacation Rental Website Builder

As an Airbnb host, you are aware of the importance of brand recognition for achieving success in the competitive vacation rental...

5 Essential Tips for Website Branding in Vacation Rentals

More than likely, you've been to at least one website that made you think, "Wow, this is awesome!"...

How to Import Your Airbnb Listing into a Direct Booking Website

After listing a vacation rental on several OTAs, many hosts look to launch their direct booking websites...

18 Smart Strategies to Generate Leads for Your Vacation Rental Business

To increase your bookings, you first need to find your way to get your listings in front of your target guests and generate quality...

11 Essential Google Tools for Your Direct Booking Website

Building a direct booking website is just the beginning. You should know how to optimise your website...

9 Direct Booking Website Design Mistakes That Cost You Bookings

A direct booking website is an unignorable keystone to building a self-reliant lucrative rental business in 2022...

Top 8 Tips to Increase Airbnb Revenue

Many vacation rental owners have been able to sustain a decent revenue level for a few years by implementing the BnB revenue management methods...

Why Mobile Optimisation Matters for a Direct Booking Website

How did you book your last vacation flight and/or accommodation? The answer must be online reservations through...

How to Build a Good Property Page on Your Website?

Your direct booking website lets you engage with your potential guests and capture their attention to receive more commission-free...

How Do I Know What Nightly Rate to Set for My Vacation Rental?

How should I set a nightly rate for my vacation rental? How can I make sure that my vacation rental is priced appropriately?

Why Should I List My Property on Google Hotels?

Millions of travellers use search engines to find and book accommodations. There is also a steady increase in searches...

Why Do You Need a Direct Booking Website for Your Vacation Rental Business in 2025?

There are multiple third-party platforms to list your properties, yet more reliance on them could...

How Zeevou Helps You to Boost Your Direct Booking Conversion Rates

Why are direct bookings so important for short-term rental owners? Direct bookings benefit both vacation rental owners...

Property Manager’s To-Do List for Running a Successful Business in 2023

Another tumultuous year has come to an end, and 2023 is finally here. What 2023 has in store...

9 Handy Tips to Improve Conversion Rate on Your Direct Booking Website

Have you ever wondered why Online Travel Agencies convert visitors so high, but you can’t make many conversions on your direct...

Black Friday Deals for Vacation Rentals: 10 Enticing Promotion Ideas

What does scoring the best Black Friday deals mean for you? Do you consider it an unbeatable opportunity to hunt the best of the bargains?

Vacation Rental Influencer Marketing: Today’s Best Bet to Get Seen

Traditional digital advertising channels have lost their efficiency by large. Ads that rely heavily on words give their place...

Vacation Rental Copywriting: 10 Tips to Boost Bookings

Words have the magic power to captivate. Copywriting will teach you how to mingle words...

A 6-Step Roadmap to Grow Your Vacation Rental Business

Now that you’ve established one (or more) top-performing vacation rentals, have overcome early challenges and grasped...

7 Direct Booking Strategies That Will Maximise Your Profit

Whether you run a hotel or an Airbnb business, you should consider direct booking as an ultimate way to increase profits...

10 Key Roles of a Serviced Accommodation Management Company

As many property owners are entering the short-term rental business to earn a good deal of side income from investment...

Getting Started with Direct Booking

Are you ready for Direct Bookings in your short-term rental, holiday let, and Airbnb business? Imagine what vacation...

7 Appealing Vacation Rental Blog Post Ideas for Your Direct Booking Website

Building a blog is an inseparable part of a vacation rental’s digital marketing campaigns...

How and When to Use Discounts to Get More Direct Bookings

Do I have to use discounts to get more direct bookings? Do direct booking discounts actually help my short-term rental business?

Why Your Vacation Rental Website Needs a Google Analytics Account

Can you recall one single property manager who doesn’t claim that getting more direct bookings is one of their ultimate goals...

How to Get More Direct Bookings

Before we explore the ways that’ll help you get more direct bookings, let’s look at some facts as some of you may not be still convinced that direct bookings...

Direct Booking Websites vs OTAs, Which One Gives You More Profit?

There’s a heated debate among vacation rental managers and serviced apartment operators over the dilemma of direct booking...

The 10 Best Short-term Rental Websites for Listing Your Properties

Listing your property on a short-term rental website is non-negotiable for the success of your business...

How to Build a Vacation Rental Website

OTAs (Online Travel Agencies) and listing sites play an increasingly important role in the vacation rental and serviced apartment industry...

8 Ultimate SEO Tips for Vacation Rental Websites

A great number of your likely guests use search engines to look for holiday and business accommodation...

Top 7 The 2020 Book Direct Show Presentations You Shouldn’t Miss!

How much do you know about The 2020 Book Direct Show? What is the ultimate goal...

How Zeevou’s Features Help with Property Management SEO

The ultimate goal of any vacation rental manager is to get more direct bookings...

How to Collect Payments for Direct Bookings

Did you know that the vast majority of short term rental owners pay the 15%-30% of their nightly rates as commission to Online Travel...

How to Optimise Your Direct Booking Website to Attract More Bookers

Capturing more direct bookings will sooner or later require building a good direct booking website. One that stimulates the growth...

Zeevou set to launch on March 20th 2020 Zeevou will also be rolling out a commission-free OTA (Zeevou Direct)

Worldwide: Zeevou will announce the official launch of its specialist Property Management System and innovative Channel Manager in March 2020. Our aim is to shake up the hospitality industry –

Collect Guest Emails to Boost Direct Bookings

Why Collect Guest Email Addresses? Are you relying solely on third-party booking platforms like Airbnb or Booking.com to manage guest communications? While it seems convenient, you’re missing a key element

Maximising Booking.com Visibility with Smart Bidding

In the world of online travel, visibility is everything. With millions of properties listed on Booking.com and its affiliated sites, getting your property noticed by travellers can be a daunting

7 Essential Tips for Scaling Your Serviced Accommodation Business

Scaling Your Serviced Accommodation Business is not an easy task. You may have successfully set up ...