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Are You A Short-Term Rental Superstar? · Host Planet: Airbnb, Holiday Let, and Vacation Rental Insights

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Are you a property manager with a unique?
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Story to tell. Would you like to be featured in
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a major e-book and podcast? Series delivered.
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By host planets and hospitable if you're keen to gain global
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exposure for you and. Your brand make sure you keep
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listening to today's. Host Planet podcast featuring
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Miles Hobson. He also talks AI, how you can
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run your rentals on autopilot, plus a very exciting dynamic
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pricing announcement from one of the world's biggest property.
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Management softwares. This is an episode.
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Not to be missed, Miles, thank you so much for joining us on
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the Host Planet podcast. Now I'm excited today because
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Host Planet and Hospitable have got a really big announcement to
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make and I'll let you do the honours so.
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Take it away. All right.
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I feel very honoured. Thank you very much, James.
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Great to be here. And yeah, so I think something
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exciting that we've kind of been working on in the background for
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a little while and we're finally ready to kind of announce and
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share. And we are working on Host
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Planet's next big e-book for release in September.
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And obviously hospitable teaming up with Host Planet on this one.
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And the focus this time is really going to be the Host
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Planet playbook. And the idea is that we want to
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get 30 property managers together and we want to hear
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their stories and what their top tips are for software, how they
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manage their business, how they work with owners, all the good
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stuff. And really the point is we want
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to showcase some of those amazing property managers out
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there in the industry and also obviously produce something
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that's an amazing piece of content that lots of people can
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learn from. And obviously, James as part of
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that, because we love a podcast episode, as is clear from this,
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and we're going to do a podcast episode with each of those
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property managers as well. So that's going to be some
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really exciting and interesting content where we're going to
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hopefully learn a ton of information from some expert
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property managers. Yeah, it's, yeah, really
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exciting. And it's going to offer like a
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really deep dive into the best property managers around the
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world. And we're trying to get and make
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it a really varied bunch, you know, some property managers
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who've got loads of rentals that they're managing, some maybe
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like a boutique few. And we're also opening it up if
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you'd like to be part of this. We're going to have stuff on the
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website where you can basically nominate, tell us your story.
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And then we're going to pick 30 people from around the world.
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And I think just just explain to us like what are the real
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opportunities for the property managers here in terms of like
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showcasing themselves and their brands?
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Yeah, for sure. So I think, you know, it's
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obviously your name is going to be featured, your brand is going
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to be featured in the ebook itself, which is going to be
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distributed to, I mean, thousands and thousands of
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people, I'm sure, and also obviously on the podcast there.
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And I think it's an opportunity for you as a property manager to
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really show that you are a thought leader and that you're,
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you know, at the forefront of the industry.
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You're not just, you know, one of the masses of just another
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property manager. You are the one of the ones that
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are really kind of pushing the direction of the industry and
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someone that you know can help an owner with their property and
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help them host or maybe yourself health manager and you can just
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educate others out there and maybe start some Co hosting with
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them too. So really I think there's tons
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of opportunity here from kind of a brand perspective, but also
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really kind of being seen as a leader in the industry.
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And who knows, maybe you'll get some other speaking
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opportunities off the back of it.
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And host planet is definitely growing its exposure, doing some
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fantastic events. So I'm sure that that's going to
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lend it to speaker opportunities with host planet potentially
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down the line and other industries.
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And this is going to be read by people from across the industry.
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So really an exciting opportunity for all hosts out
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there. They're wanting to potentially
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get involved. Exactly.
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Yeah. It's going to give you a lot of
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exposure. So if you've got a unique story
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to tell, head to the Host Planet website on the blog section
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there. There'll be an opportunity to
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tap in your details. What's going to happen is that
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we'll kind of come up with a shortlist over the next few
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weeks and then eventually we'll be contacting the people who
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would like to get involved in this.
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You're you will be featured in the ebook, which will be coming
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out in September, provided we've got enough time to write and
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design it. I'm not well, it's going to be
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it's going to be pretty tight, but it'll be, it'll be ready
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hopefully. And also we'll start working on
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the podcast episodes as well. And like all our resources on
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host planet, it's going to be a free ebook to download.
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So that means thousands of thousands of people around the
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world will see it and also Hospit Hospitable will be
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talking about it on their channels as well.
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And with the podcast, what we're doing now is lots of video,
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social media clips as well. So you'll get even more exposure
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when your podcast episode comes out with an episode across all
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the podcast channels on our website, on YouTube and loads of
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social media clips as well. So if you want to grow your
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brand, increase your exposure and just tell your story to the
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industry so other people can learn from it, you're not going
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to get a much better opportunity than this.
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Emails. No, definitely not.
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So please, I encourage you submit.
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Even if you're not sure if we accept you, there's a strong
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chance we could. So go ahead and submit.
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We want all kinds of property managers, so please get involved
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no matter how many number of properties you're managing.
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We're interested to hear from you.
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Yeah, 100% doesn't matter where you are in the world, how many
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properties you're managing. If you've got a unique and a
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cool story to tell and you're keen to kind of, you know, get
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your face out there, then please do get in touch.
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We're we're really excited to to hear from lots of property
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managers around the world and, and start that selection process
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going to be really, really exciting project.
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All right, fantastic. Well, we'll move on to stuff
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away from that very exciting e-book and podcast series that's
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going to be coming up 2025 live. Talk to me about what you're
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seeing so far in terms of trends in the industry and you know,
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you're talking obviously to house and property managers all
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the time. What are they dealing with and
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and what's what's really been going on at the start of this
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year? Yes, so interestingly, I
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actually just got off a podcast recording yesterday with key
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data and was chatting sorry to them about some of the trends
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that they're seeing particularly in the US and Canada.
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And Q1 has kind of been a bit topsy turvy, kind of depends by
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region, but something that they are seeing is kind of bookings
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are generally down and that has definitely been seen in Q2 as
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well. An interesting data point
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looking at the US market, April 5th, 2025 versus April 5th,
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2024, bookings were down 20%, which is quite a staggering
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number, right? So occupancy in terms of kind of
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the current market climate with things going on in the US
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economy and around the world is, you know, a great concern.
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And we've also kind of in Q1, you know, did a survey, they
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have our own hosts and, and asking them what their kind of
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concerns were. And again, yeah, occupancy came
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out as kind of the biggest hurdle, the biggest challenge
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for them for the year ahead. So 57.2% of hosts saying that
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they're struggling to maintain, maintain, sorry, consistent
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bookings. And so that's going to be a
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really big concern for them in the coming year.
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And I'm sure that other hosts are hearing and feeling that and
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seeing that too. And I think part of that as well
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is pricing. And so 28.9% of hosts in that
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survey said that they are struggling to set pricing right.
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So I know a large majority of hosts are using dynamic pricing,
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not everyone is. We were at your Air Success
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event with you, James through the week and there was obviously
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some debate there on the effectiveness of dynamic pricing
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and trying to get it right for your market.
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But dynamic pricing can obviously be a key to kind of
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unlocking that growth and making sure you're getting that
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occupancy. So I think that's going to be a
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bigger focus for a lot of hosts throughout the rest of the year
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is getting that pricing right and hopefully getting the
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occupancy that they really want for their properties despite the
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potential for, you know, reduced international demand.
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Certainly for the hosts in the US, it might be more domestic
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travel, but we'll see obviously how that's going to affect the
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UK, the EU and the rest of the world as well.
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We can't predict the future, unfortunately.
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You know, there's kind of a wait and see at the moment.
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But hopefully, you know, we still have a positive year
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ahead. And hosts definitely though need
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to be thinking about how can they get that occupancy up and
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potentially as well, how do they differentiate from their
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competitors, right? How do they offer that extra
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level of personalization so that guests have that really kind of
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positive experience and are thinking about rebooking with a
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host again in in the future? How is the, the political
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situation in North America affecting hosts?
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Because we've got the situation between the US and Canada, while
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the US and the rest of the world with, with all the, the tariffs
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and the, I guess the uncertainty of not knowing where people
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stand. There's a lot of people around
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the world outside of the US are saying, I'm not going to travel
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to the US at the moment while, while stuff is going on.
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So I guess, yeah, like you said there, the house there in the US
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maybe need to focus on the domestic scene a bit.
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But yeah, what's what's sentiment like in North America
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at the moment? Yeah.
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So, you know, Canadian perspective here from the UK,
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originally based in Toronto for listeners that don't know that
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and probably can't tell I'm in Canada from my accent.
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And so, you know, there's obviously a, a certain
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perspective here in Canada and you know, unfortunately there's,
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there's quite a bit of anti US sentiment based on the tariffs
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and, and what's happening. And you know, certainly in
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Canada there's kind of a protectionist economy effect.
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And so Canadians definitely we're seeing that a lot of folks
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are trying to buy Canadian versus buy from the US and also
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plenty of people saying that they're cancelling their trips
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and not planning to go to the US and instead planning to go to
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the UK. So Europe and maybe just
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domestic travel and you know, we'll see, I'm not a political
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analyst and but we'll see what happens throughout the rest of
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the year. But I can imagine that in the US
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in particular, there's going to be a need to focus more on those
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driving kind of markets and those guests that are
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potentially going for a shorter length of stay, right?
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And you might not be getting as many international travellers
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that are coming for a week or two long and you might just be
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getting folks from, you know, the same state or the state over
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coming in for a couple of days for a shorter vacation.
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Obviously, there's probably some worry at the moment in terms of
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kind of the, the bigger picture for the economy.
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And I'm sure that some people are thinking about, you know, do
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I really need to go on that big vacation and, and do I need to
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tighten my belt a little bit and, and reduce the number of
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nights that I'm going for? So I think that hosts might have
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to be looking at, you know, their minimum length of stay and
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considering if it's currently, you know, too long and if they
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need to be kind of reducing that to make sure that they can still
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be getting bookings and, and filling up their calendar.
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How important is it for hosts in the current climate to be
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flexible in terms of the minimum stays and, and the price?
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Is it imperative really if you want to try, and I don't know,
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make sure that your occupancy is up to scratch and make sure that
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you're getting those bookings in?
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Yeah, definitely. I think you've always got to be
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aware of what's happening. I think at any time you need to
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kind of be listening to what's happening in the market using
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some tools that allow you to kind of look at, you know, your
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demand, your occupancy versus the rest of the market, and
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also, you know, your pricing versus competitors in your
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market and really adapt to that. Right.
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Again, you can't go off just what some guy says on the
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podcast. You really need to look at your
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market and what's happening with you and adapt to that.
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And that's always the case. But I think, you know, now more
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than ever where there's there's increased economic pressures,
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guys really pride yourselves on helping hosts to run their
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rentals on autopilot. So how do you help hosts achieve
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that? Yeah.
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So, you know, automation is obviously key for us.
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We were born out of simply smart messaging and automated replies
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really that has now grown to kind of all, all kind of
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processes involved in property management.
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And we're kind of a property management software that's kind
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of growing beyond just a property management software
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there and becoming essentially a super app involving lots of
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different tools to help you really kind of grow and save a
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lot more time. We estimate something around 25
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hours saved per month per host. It's kind of a difficult number
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to kind of nail down and it's a rough estimate for sure.
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So we have a lot of AI tools that basically allow you to
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automatically respond to guests and we can generate responses
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based on your knowledge hub, which is essentially a tool
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where you can upload a guide book, you can connect a touch
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day guide book to that. And we can really, you know,
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provide contextual answers to all manner of guest questions.
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And it's really based on your property.
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So that's kind of one of the key features that really helps hosts
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to save a lot of time. We do have lots of other AI
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tools such as guest summary, which allows you to quickly see
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what a guest does and doesn't like based on their past public
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reviews on Airbnb and really help you to tailor the guest
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experience there and do it very quickly.
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Right. It's there in the inbox.
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It's ready and easy to go and easy to see.
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And obviously that kind of inbox is it's unified across your
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channels, your calendars unified.
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It means that you can manage all of your properties across all
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platforms in one place, which is obviously kind of now becoming a
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standard, but making it seamless and making it user friendly is
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something that we are kind of really focused on.
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So as a company, we really focus on customer feedback.
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We regularly hold customer town halls and James, I don't know if
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you've been on one before, but they're an amazing event.
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And every two weeks we have public town halls where we
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basically go, this is what we worked on for the last two
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weeks. And we basically open it up for
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customer feedback. And it's, you know, there's no
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filter and guests on the event can ask us anything they want.
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And so if we're not doing something right, they can tell
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us. And we need to action that,
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right? If we don't action feedback on
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those public town halls, they're going to come back in two weeks
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time and they're going to say it again.
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And it's not going to look great for our brand image, right?
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Because you don't have to be a customer even to join those
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calls. You could be a potential feature
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customer, you could just be a competitor, they're spying in on
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what we're doing, or we could be a media person personality of
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some kind, right? So I think that's really key for
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us is kind of looking at ways that we can automate for hosts
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and really asking hosts how we can help them automate and save
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time to really kind of like say, put their business on autopilot,
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make things easier for them, save them time.
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Hopefully also save them a little bit of money so that they
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can reinvest that into their business and, you know, provide
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a better guest experience and potentially grow their property
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portfolio too. I have seen your town hall
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announcements. I think they pop up on on my
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LinkedIn feed every now and again.
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I would be delighted to to join one, of course.
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And well, especially if I if I got to talk about host planner
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for two minutes. Yeah, so, so yeah, happy to,
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happy to join those. In terms of like who, the ideal?
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Kind of target customer is for hospitable.
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Who are the hosts and property managers out there who really
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should be taking a look at your platform?
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Yeah. So I mean, we we're quite broad
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and so we really do work for self managers, Co host property
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managers. You know, historically we did
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start out and I think a lot of people when they think
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hospitable, they might think, you know, that that smaller self
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manager range of one to 10 properties.
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But we've really now built out our software to kind of be a
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great fit for everyone. And we now have, you know, owner
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statements and guest portals and rental agreements and we're
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bringing on security deposits pretty excitingly.
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I, I think depending on when this goes out, I think we've
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just released dynamic pricing and so built into the software,
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which is pretty cool and pretty exciting.
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So really, you know, the idea for us is looking for hosts that
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are looking to save themselves time, right?
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And and we're going to keep going back to that, but that's
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what we're focused on. It's people that are looking to
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kind of automate that potentially want to grow their
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business, but don't necessarily want to have to bring on new
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team members to do that. Or you know, I want to kind of
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focus on other parts of their business unless they're kind of
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the management and the guest management side of things.
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Maybe they want to focus on buying that next property and
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growing their portfolio elsewhere.
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Maybe they've also got a nine to five job, a W2 job kind of
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thing. Really we're there to kind of
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just help things be a lot smoother for the whole process.
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And we also see a lot of long term rental has actually come
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across landlords coming across to become short term rental
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hosts because it's scary and it sounds like a lot of work, but
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with a tool like hospitable, we can really save you a lot of
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time. So it doesn't have to have as
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many headaches as people think. And obviously, you can still get
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those greater returns in shop term rental versus long term
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rental. Fantastic and the dynamic.
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Pricing is to say brand new platform that Hospitable has
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created. Or are you teaming up with one
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of the other providers out there?
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Yeah. So we're collaborating with an
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expert in the industry on this. So, you know, they've got a
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wealth of experience, lots of data points that we can kind of
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pull from. But it is, you know, fully built
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into Hospitable and we've heard a lot of say in exactly how it's
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going to work for our customers. Again, it's listening to host
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feedback and figuring out what works for them and what they
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need and also making sure that it's actually built into our
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platform in a way that, you know, it works right and it
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works with the current setup. It's very easy to use, very,
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very friendly user interface. It's right there in your
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calendar. You can make tweets as you go.
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We show you why we've priced the property at the price we've
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priced it at. So you kind of know you can set
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your minimums and maximums. You can kind of be aggressive or
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conservative with your pricing. There's plenty of flexibility
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there and so that you can kind of have some control over it.
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But at the same time, we obviously encourage hosts to let
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the software do the work and it will definitely, you know,
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deliver great revenue for you and hopefully not just hopefully
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it will increase their occupancy too, which obviously, as we said
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at the start is a key focus for hosts throughout 2025.
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Exciting times then. And this is this is completely
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built in and will be part if you take a hospitable subscription,
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you'll you'll have the opportunity to to use this.
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And I guess if if you're already using one of the other dynamic
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pricing tools out there, I imagine it's integrated anyway
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you can pick which one you want to use basically.
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That's exactly right. So yeah, we're obviously already
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kind of connected with a ton of third party dynamic pricing
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tools and hosts are going to have that choice, right.
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So they can continue using whichever third party dynamic
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pricing tool they're using if they so wish.
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But I'm sure that many hosts will decide to switch across
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because yes, the dynamic pricing offering that we're offering is,
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you know, totally embedded, totally native and hospitable.
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So it makes it a lot easier to use, right.
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And we're managing the whole process of kind of that
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connection. And also yes, it's fully
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included in the price of all our plans.
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So no additional fee. I know something that that's
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great value add I would say, you know, that's again, a place
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where folks can be saving a bit of money and also again,
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reinvesting that into their business into growth.
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Fantastic. Yeah, well, check it out and
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nice for the hospitable users. I guess they can maybe get rid
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of one of their tech subscriptions if they if they
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think it's think it's something they should do.
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You mentioned that there's a, there's a lot of AI in involved
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in the hospitable platform and. Where?
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Where are things going? In relation to AI and you know,
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how do you see kind of your platform developing over the
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next year or so? Yeah, for sure.
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So I think AI is getting to the point where people are trusting
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it more and more, right? There's still that concern over
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hallucination and AI making up stuff by property and telling
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guests the wrong thing. And you know, we definitely know
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there's some house that kind of scared for AI to kind of be on
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autopilot. We're slowly moving towards
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that, where House have that option of turning AI on or off
21:45
in terms of kind of that autopilot setting, right.
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So when we first started out, it's very much AI as an
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assistant and it's going to draft things for you.
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It's going to kind of give you a suggestion of the best response
21:55
or it can redraft something that you've already put in a message
22:01
you've already kind of put some bullet points into.
22:03
Now moving towards though is kind of we've learned so much
22:06
and we've kind of put inputted so much information into those,
22:10
you know, language learning models.
22:12
That's basically we're very confident at the point now of
22:16
the confidence in those messages and how often we get it right
22:19
first time. So we have now done an autopilot
22:24
feature and slowly but surely we're going to kind of increase
22:28
the ability of that autopilot, right?
22:29
And in which circumstances it can step in for you and acting
22:33
your behalf. Again, we're kind of giving
22:36
hosts the option on that and like the some control, but
22:40
that's going to become more and more prominent.
22:42
I think having AI do a lot more stuff for you and really letting
22:47
it do that, right? We want to get to a point where
22:50
our copilot feature, which is essentially where you can kind
22:53
of talk to our platform and tell it to do things with your
22:56
calendar and make adjustments. We want to move to a point where
22:59
essentially copilot is how you interact with hospital, right?
23:04
The the dream is that we, you know, we almost have a hotline
23:07
where you can just call hospitable copilot and be like,
23:10
Oh, I need to adjust my calendar because there's some big
23:15
festival coming up kind of thing that I've just heard about and
23:17
make sure that my minimums are set accordingly kind of thing.
23:20
And and I block out some time in my calendar for the owner that
23:23
wants to come and stay kind of thing.
23:25
And it hears all those different action items and it just goes
23:28
and does those for you in your calendar.
23:30
But it also does the the knock on effects, right?
23:32
So the, the cleaning calendar needs to be adjusted.
23:36
It automatically doesn't does that, you know, the reporting is
23:39
updated to kind of inform the owner of that, like they've got
23:43
their block scheduled in there. So really, yeah, we're kind of
23:47
moving towards that. Yeah, autopilot and, and really
23:50
kind of being, you know, letting AI do a lot more of the work for
23:55
you for sure. There's going to have to be like
23:58
some checks and balances in there to make sure it's it's
24:01
behaving right. But we're doing it in a way that
24:04
we're, we're very confident of, you know, building towards that
24:07
in a way that basically make sure that we're very confident
24:11
in those responses and those actions before it's just let out
24:15
into the wild. And again, hosts can have their
24:18
own individual input on it, but I think that the majority of
24:21
hosts will see how amazing it is and we'll be very confident in,
24:24
you know, hospitable and hospitals AI ability to kind of
24:27
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working on this year? Wow.
25:14
I mean, is that not enough for you?
25:15
James is enough, actually, yeah, No, We do have a few more things
25:21
at the back, though. I won't go into detail on
25:23
everything. You've got to join a town hall
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to get the real big scoop from us, of course, but we do.
25:29
We are working towards kind of a marketplace offering as well.
25:31
We want to really be a hub for all things shops and rental for
25:35
you. So you know, a place to go to
25:37
find cleaners, a place to go to find, you know, virtual
25:40
assistants if you do want a bit more helping hand from real
25:44
people, because I know some hosts do.
25:46
And also we want to kind of be a hub for even finding a property
25:49
manager or a maintenance person, right?
25:51
And maybe you're a self manager that's just decided that, OK, I
25:55
want to find a property manager that's trusted by hospitable and
25:58
there's a platform inside and out that can help me manage my
26:00
property. We want to be the place you can
26:02
find that person. And likewise, if you if the
26:05
boiler blurrics or your air con goes out or a pipe burst, we
26:10
want to be able to quickly kind of recommend and find someone
26:12
for you. And you know, even be in a
26:14
position where AI could potentially do that for you,
26:17
right. Again, if a guest messages
26:19
saying, oh, the air con broke and anything AI should be able
26:23
to go and find an available maintenance person to come along
26:27
and even maybe even book the appointment for you to get them
26:30
to come out and make sure it's at all before you've even had a
26:32
chance to see the message from the guest.
26:35
So again, kind of moving towards being like that central hub and
26:39
hopefully delivering an amazing guest experience at every stay.
26:43
Yeah, and and lots of value for the industry as well.
26:46
Sounds absolutely fantastic. Everything that's in the
26:49
pipeline. All right then.
26:50
Miles, we've got a. Few questions to finish Favorite
26:55
brand in the STR space, apart from hospitable, of course.
26:59
So well, this is going to sound like you paid me to say this,
27:02
but I, I want to say host planet.
27:04
I think what you've done with the, the launch of the brand is,
27:07
has been fantastic. It's fantastic to see it finally
27:10
come to life. I've obviously got a sneak peek
27:11
of it a few weeks early and it's fantastic to see it.
27:15
I'm loving the new swag and it's a really exciting time for host
27:18
planet, I think, and it's going to be great to see you know,
27:21
where you go and, and how you grow beyond your current reach.
27:25
Exciting times ahead for his planet, I think.
27:27
James, thank you so much. Yeah, we, we certainly think so.
27:30
And yes, I am branded to. I won't use the bad the bad
27:34
word, but yeah, I'm I'm a lot branded.
27:37
Next question then, an individual in the STR space
27:41
you'd like to give a shout out to and why?
27:44
I won't say you, James. I've already said his planet.
27:47
So I'm actually going to say Amy Davison, who is our account
27:51
manager at Abode Worldwide. So Abode do a fantastic job for
27:55
us in terms of kind of our press work and kind of getting our
27:59
name out there. Abode, I'm sure for many vendors
28:03
in the industry is a very well known term, a very well known
28:06
name. And really, yeah, Amy is kind of
28:10
a fantastic partner for us and has helped us to grow so much,
28:14
kind of really helped be the voice of hospitable with press
28:18
contacts and kind of getting our story out there, really helping
28:21
to position us as the go to brand and a brand that is
28:25
growing. So yeah, that is the person I
28:28
would nominate. And yeah, Amy, Amy does an
28:32
amazing job. And actually Amy organised the
28:34
podcast interview that I did with Pierre Camille from from
28:39
hospitable. So yeah, this this is where it
28:41
all started. Thanks to thanks to Amy and and
28:43
the brilliant team about finally then we've kind of already
28:48
covered this, but let's let's sign off in style.
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Oh, number one reason. I mean, it's, it's why not is
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I think really just the wide exposure that you're going to
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29:31
I think Absolutely Hospitable and Host planet have both got
29:35
pretty powerful STR networks. Add them together and it's it
29:40
can really supercharge your exposure.
29:42
So yes, please do get involved. Miles, it's been a.
29:45
Real pleasure as ever. Thanks for joining us on the
29:48
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29:50
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