Sébastien Grosjean
www.BookingSync.com
Sébastien Grosjean is the Founder and CEO of vacation rental management software, BookingSync.com.
Séb’s curiosity for vacation rentals began at a very young age. Growing up, his parents managed chalets in Névache, a village town nestled in the French Alps. They then expanded their portfolio by first managing stone houses in Lorgues, Provence and subsequently by developing a number of luxury properties – VillasThalassa – on the beautiful island of Lefkada, Greece.
While Séb went to university in Paris to study computer science, he remained close to the family VR business and soon would take over management responsibilities in Lefkada. Under Séb’s leadership, VillasThalassa properties booked 30% more than comparable short term rentals on the island. More and more bookings and inquiries in turn generated a problem of scale: how to make the VR management process more efficient?
Séb sat down to solve this problem and started coding what would become BookingSync. Now with over 25 years of experience in the vacation rental industry and over 15 years in software development, Séb has built BookingSync into a company with over $1MM in funding and into a software active in 115 countries.
VR Software Revealed: Pitfalls, Myths, Truth and Solutions
The goal of vacation rental management software is to help users save time and generate more bookings.
In this respect, technology has played a big role: vacation rental owners, managers, and agencies may choose from an ever growing array of digital products and services to improve their management experience. Accommodation marketplaces, reservation systems, website builders, dynamic rates engines, and online payments are just a few examples.
A further example, and one of the most significant advances in VR management, is the advent of synchronization functionality. In its idealist form, synchronization functionality allows managers to maintain one centralized calendar and keep bookings and listings updated across distribution channels.
In this talk, we will explore the issue of Vacation Rental Synchronization in fuller detail:
- What is Calendar Syncing?
- What is a Channel Manager?
- How does synchronization work in theory?
- And how does it work in reality?
- What are limitations of the technologies?
- How can synchronization systems be improved?
These questions and more are the nuts and bolts of what we will be diving into.
