Remember, the more booking sites and the better your reviews, the more revenue and success you will be enjoying!

Start this month, automate your entire booking process and get much more revenue thanks to the improved online exposure and review management for your properties.

All February sign ups from London will get a one month 100% discount on the reservation management fee. You may consider it your welcoming drink!

In the past on average owners who signed up spend a 95% less time on their reservation management and got 30% more revenues simultaneously.

Thats what we call SUCCESSFULL reservation management to be proud of. 

Holiday apartments, B&B´s and guest houses form the more personal and intimate part of the hospitality industry; often the owners are also the managers having to deal with the entire back office (accounting, marketing, bookings, availability, picture and content management etc) at the same time as overseeing of the front office; taking care of guests as well as the staff. An important area such as online marketing is absolutely essential for creating and optimizing revenue, however this area often is not managed wisely as too many other things simply get in the way for the owner / manager. Making sure to have enough time to research the internet for booking sites; determining which are the right sites for your guest house, what fees / commission rates are applicable and whether the agencies offer self uploads & updates or not is not easy, especially as many of the sites are not as informative as could be desired.

“Using reservationmanagers.com i can rest assured and enjoy my days almost to the same degree my guests do” – Gea Zwiers

As a coincidence, one of its biggest rivals in Europe, venture-backed 9flats – started by Qype founder Stephan Uhrenbacher – is also based in Germany (Berlin, to be more precise).

Airbnb is growing in an explosive way. Last year it grew over 800%. The company is soon going to hit the 2 million nights booked in other people’s homes through their website. Airbnb currently offers properties in more than 13,500 cities and 182 countries all over the globe.

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, in a recent interview, said the service is becoming increasingly popular for listings abroad, and that a major focus in the near future will be on customizing the site to better help support that international growth. Gebbia expressed interest in Europe, South America and Asia (he cites China) for global growth.

The buying of Accoleo, terms of which were not disclosed, fits neatly into that picture. Accoleo founder Gunnar Froh will be leading Airbnb’s moves in Germany.

Interestingly, Airbnb is also in the midst of a fundraising round, in the process of raising $100 million at a valuation of $1 billion.  So it appears that Windmu, in addition to copycatting Airbnb’s business model, is even mimicking its business strategy. Just like Airbnb,Windmu is a community-driven marketplace for private spaces.  The startup currently lists 10,000 apartments in more than 150 cities around the world, and says it does all that in under 100 days.  The company’s payroll has already expanded to 400 employees, who operate out of 15 offices worldwide.

Wimdu is not the only company to copy Airbnb’s idea, either.  There’s 9flats, which recently obtained financing from Redpoint Ventures, and a German clone called Accoleo was just acquired by Airbnb two weeks ago.  Airbnb sent out a warning last week to its 100,000-plus hosts, calling these clones “scam-artists”.  The email detailed the Samwer brothers’ exploits in which they launched startups in the likeness of successful businesses in markets where those companies had not yet expanded in order to sell them to the businesses they copied.

After posting a “sunny, bright, cozy loft” on the rental marketplace, the woman, who uses the pseudonym EJ, returned to find the apartment ransacked by a renter using the name “DJ Pattrson.”

Following a media firestorm, Airbnb, an online marketplace in the same vein as Craigslist that focuses on short-term rentals of homes, apartments and bedrooms for people on the go, has implemented changes to the rental process for users. On Monday, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wrote a blog post apologizing to EJ and detailing the new tools.

In an item titled “Our Commitment to Trust and Safety” Chesky wrote, “…[W]e let her down, and for that we are very sorry…We should have responded faster, communicated more sensitively, and taken more decisive action to make sure she felt safe and secure.”

The company’s new safety tool, Airbnb Guarantee, covers theft and vandalism charges of up to $50,000 for hosts and the online market place is creating a trust and safety department.

These changes came after a June blog post on “Around the World and Back Again” had gone viral and threatened to hinder the Web site’s meteoric rise.

“I returned home from an exhausting week of business travel to an apartment that I no longer recognized. To an apartment that had been ransacked…My home had been burglarized, vandalized and thoroughly trashed by a ‘traveler’ I connected with via the online rental agency, airbnb.com,” wrote host EJ.

Attempts to reach “EJ” were unsuccessful. San Francisco Police, who are looking into the case, said she didn’t want to be identified.

Airbnb is utilized by both hosts and renters. The hosts pay a fee of 3 percent for successful bookings.

Renters are billed a service fee of 6 to 12 percent to utilize the website that has investors like Ashton Kutcher.

Last week, the company announced $112 million in financing and has seen its valuation increase to more than $1 billion.

The Web site has a social media component that allows users to interact on the platform without disclosing any personal information like email addresses or phone numbers.

The service does not allow users to communicate off the platform until a payment or offer is accepted on the portal. At that point, travelers and hosts communicate about how to access the room or apartment for rent.