PriceLabs says the share of small short-term rental hosts using artificial intelligence tools to run their listings rose from 14% in 2025 to 58% now, a figure the pricing vendor says comes from its own research.
Bartech is selling short-term rental hosts a $9.99-a-month minibar system that skips inventory sensors and PMS hookups in favor of guests scanning a code to pay.
Pavilion has combined 20 vacation rental management companies into one group but left ownership and software decisions mostly in the operators' hands.
Avalora's VAIA becomes the first AI assistant certified against the American Hotel & Lodging Association's HTNG Express connectivity standard, a move aimed at cutting the cost of plugging AI tools into property management systems.
Experiences platform Holibob has released a free software kit that lets accommodation brands add bookable tours and activities directly onto their own websites instead of sending guests to a third-party marketplace.
Accommodation businesses are consolidating rates, bookings, housekeeping and guest services into single cloud platforms as manual, disconnected tools become too costly to run at scale.
An audit of 343 property management system vendors found only 7% publish complete, public API documentation, leaving most integration terms locked behind sales calls.
Operators heading into next year's pricing season face a fast-growing menu of market-data, pricing and portfolio dashboards, and the real cost is stacking subscriptions that overlap.
A vacation rental software vendor undercuts typical channel manager pricing with a €10 monthly tier aimed at hosts running one or two units.
The short-term rental data firm has built its own dynamic pricing product, putting it in direct competition with revenue management platforms that license its market data.
HomeToGo booked €160.1 million in revenue for the first half of 2026, up 71.8% year on year, after folding in the Interhome rental business it acquired.
Property managers weighing 2026 software renewals are being pushed to check contract length, data portability and channel-manager fees before they sign another year.
A cluster of standalone apps is competing to automate the cleaner scheduling and verification work that Airbnb and Vrbo still leave entirely to hosts.
Every property management system vendor now advertises AI, but operators running multi-property portfolios say the daily workload of pricing checks, message triage and calendar reconciliation hasn't shrunk.
Vacation rental marketplace and technology provider Wander has hired the team behind family-organisation app Maple to work on its WanderOS direct booking platform for property managers.
A nine-room guest house in Boston's Back Bay is competing with branded hotel chains on booking technology rather than joining one, after new owners rebuilt its systems around a cloud property management platform.
as hosts spread listings across more OTAs, channel manager software has become the tool that stops calendars from colliding.
Property managers are leaning harder into visual social platforms as a growing body of guidance points to Instagram as a direct-booking driver for the coming year.
A half-year review of AI-assisted guest messaging finds that response speed and review scores may matter more to revenue than the hours automation saves hosts.
Short-term rental operators chasing visibility in AI-driven search tools are discovering that being found by algorithms is only half the battle for turning clicks into confirmed stays.