How to market your luxury villa for more bookings Offer a virtual tour of your vacation rental property. Create a website for your luxury rental. Offer concierge services to complement people's stay. Use social media advertising to market your property.
Features such as video and virtual tours can be very useful. A video allows you to tour the villa and show it in a more representative state, giving an idea of the perspective a guest could have and showing the villa in its full animation. To further increase immersion, a 360-degree virtual tour system has been created, very popular today on many websites, which allows guests to take an interactive virtual tour of the villa directly from their web browser. The best option for property managers with 10 or more properties.
Smiling House, for example, ticks all the boxes. After managing 120 luxury rentals in the Swiss Alps for many years, Moriya and his team realized that luxury rental operators around the world faced the same obstacles when trying to list on OTAs. That's why they have created a specialized channel that offers a solution for all luxury vacation rental managers, no matter where they are in the world. Currently, Smiling House offers 4,500 accommodations in 125 destinations around the world, a number that is increasing day by day, in addition to many more exclusive “on demand” rentals that can only be booked through OTAs.
Imaging technology combined with sophisticated artificial intelligence allows you to capture 3D scanned images on your iPhone and turn them into walking tours. Both Astroom and Matterport offer three-dimensional tools and services, while Get VRLY offers 6D rendering. I have dedicated my 30-year career to making complex, unfamiliar ideas easy to understand. Today, I usually write 2500 words or less to help entrepreneurs, such as real estate agents, RIAs, insurance agents, and others, to better understand marketing and to feel renewed confidence in their ability to close more deals and retain more business.
Gain new skills with more than 2000 hours of CE courses.