The following article is taken from Eye on Spain, www.eyeonspain.com

How To Decide Where To Advertise Your Holiday Home Online

At the risk of sounding cliché. The internet is here to stay.

Gone are the days of going down to your local trusted travel agent and having your holiday plans in his hands. With the increased availability of high speed internet connections, cheaper and ever faster computers, the whole World is connected. Or they soon will be.

No industry has the felt this online presence more than the travel one. People are turning to the internet for everything travel related. From deciding where to go, how to get there and most importantly of all, where to stay? The travel industry has seen a massive boom in online activity.

You do not need a degree in computer science these days. Just the ability to get online, do a search and send an email. It is as simple as that. Every year, the barriers seem to be getting lower and lower. Everyone and anyone can get online.

With literally billions of online travel searches every month. It makes perfect sense that people are increasingly using the internet to advertise their holiday home.

How do you go about it?

Spain HolidayWell the simplest and most effective way is to use an established holiday lettings site. Preferably one that is specialised in the country in which you want to advertise your holiday home.

Most of these sites have been specially designed to make the process as easy as possible and more importantly to give your holiday home the exposure it needs. Exposure being the operative word, some of the better known sites has millions of visitors a year. You could never get that kind of exposure elsewhere.

The benefits of advertising your holiday home online are:

Check out spain-holiday.com for an example of an effective website to advertise your rental property.  The company holds top positions on Google and other major search engines. Spain Holiday offers an unparalleled service and websites in ten different languages. With over 4 million unique visitors last year, Spain Holiday focuses on Spain and only Spain.

 


Comments:

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Some excellent points made in your article. I agree that the travel industry is heavily reliant on the internet and that advertising holiday homes’ online is hugely beneficial for vacation rental owners. Another tip for vacation rental owners I would add is to use a Vacation Rental Software. For instance, kigo.net combines a reservation system, channel manager and website platform to increase bookings. Owners can use the channel manager to manage existing listings on portals and sync availability calendars with their own website. That way you can increase exposure and easily organise any bookings from one platform. 5/27/2013 9:42:00 AMChloe
Some excellent points made in your article. I agree that the travel industry is heavily reliant on the internet and that advertising holiday homes’ online is hugely beneficial for vacation rental owners. Another tip for vacation rental owners I would add is to use a Vacation Rental Software. For instance, kigo.net combines a reservation system, channel manager and website platform to increase bookings. Owners can use the channel manager to manage existing listings on portals and sync availability calendars with their own website. That way you can increase exposure and easily organise any bookings from one platform. 5/27/2013 9:43:00 AMChloe