About our vacation rental news desk
The Nightly Rate is a daily vacation rental news desk covering the global short-term rental industry. We track the platforms owners list on, the software they run their business with, the regulators redrawing the rules and the market data that tells operators whether a market is worth entering.
Who our vacation rental news is for
Our readers are professional short-term rental operators, property managers running portfolios of 5 to 5,000 units, PMS and channel manager product teams, OTA partner managers, tourism policy staff and the analysts and investors funding the sector.
What our vacation rental news covers
- Technology. Product launches, integrations and pricing across the software tools operators use to sync inventory to Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo.
- Platform Updates. Policy, ranking and payments changes from Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and Expedia that move revenue.
- Regulations. Licensing regimes, night caps, registration numbers and enforcement actions from city hall to the EU's DSA and DMA.
- Market Data. Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, pacing and supply figures from AirDNA, Key Data, STR and public filings.
- Industry News. Operator deals, funding rounds, senior hires and the M&A reshaping the professional host segment.
How we work
We file one nightly vacation rental news roundup, written for operators rather than headlines: what changed, who it affects and what it means for bookings. See our editorial standards for how we handle accuracy and corrections, and our privacy policy for how we handle reader data.
Who owns and funds The Nightly Rate
The Nightly Rate is published and funded by Lodgify, a vacation rental management software company. Lodgify pays for the desk; no advertiser, platform or third party pays for placement, and we do not accept payment to publish, promote or suppress a story.
Because of that ownership, two things are true and worth stating plainly: stories that concern Lodgify itself carry the same disclosure inside the piece, and we do not cover competing property-management and channel-manager vendors. If that limitation matters to you, read our coverage of those categories elsewhere alongside ours.
How our stories are produced
Our desk uses automated tooling to monitor public filings, regulator agendas, platform announcements, earnings material and published industry reporting, and to assemble first drafts of the nightly file. Every story is produced against the standards on our editorial standards page, which set out what we will and will not assert, and how we correct the record when we get something wrong. Where a claim comes from a single interested party, or has not been independently verified, the article says so in the text rather than presenting it as settled fact.