“Speed Dating” are the latest addition to VRWS this year
Check below to find out exactly what they are and why you can’t miss them!
🤜 What They Are 🤛
SPEED-DATING are 2 ’60 minute’ Sessions (one per day) where:
- you pick a company representative seated at a specific ROUNDTABLE, hear the solution they offer in 60″,
- then you ask your question, and so do your peers seated at the table.
- This way you interact with everyone for 9 further minutes and get a lot more information that will give you a clear idea of whether that’s a good fit for you and what to do next.
Each Table has up to 10 attendees for 10 minutes.
At minute 10 we ring a bell, you pick another table – another Company, sit with other 9 attendees and the process repeats.
This is done 5 times in 60 Minutes, so you have the opportunity to really find out what most companies exhibiting have to offer and how can they help you out; then if you wish, you can continue the conversation at the booth during VRWS.
🤷♀️ Why 2 Speed Dating Sessions 🤷♂️
How many times did you get to the end of an event thinking you missed out on some of the solutions on the tables, just because you didn’t have time to find out more about all of them?
Or you made a list of all the things you wanted to check, to maximise your time there…only to end up talking with a handful of people simply because the conversation was too good to cut it down?
Often at conferences the encounters you do are left to chance and serendipity; yes, it very often works out amazingly well, you meet incredible people, but couldn’t you really make the most of your time there if only you could even fit in something more?
Speed-Dating Sessions are meant to give you just that! An incredible opportunity to maximise your return on the investment to join the Vacation Rental World Summit and one more way to ensure you get back home with even more tangibles to put into action immediately.
🙋♀️ What You Can Do 🙋♂️
Now that you know what Speed Dating are, you can’t miss out!
Below is a list of each Company exhibiting at VRWS, with a little description of what they do (the list is not final, as there are more companies joining).
Make a list of the ones you will shortlist and prepare yourself for the sessions.
And…there will be a specific section within the VRWS App we’ll release prior to the event, so you can keep everything with you well organised on your mobile at all times!
Acquisition
Launched in 2016, GuestReady’s mission is to help landlords save time and turn their investments into a profitable source of income by using technology to bring the tradition of hospitality to the short and medium let market. We’re a globally leading short and medium let property manager.
Speed Dating Tables: 2, 22, 49
👉 Check it out here: https://www.guestready.com
ALTIDO is one of the largest short-term rental management companies in Europe. Founded in 2019, it has been acquired by DoveVivo in 2022, and today manages a portfolio of over 1700 properties and rooms across 4 countries and over 20 cities. These assets are rented out on a short and mid-term basis to both leisure and corporate travelers via online travel agents and stayaltido.com. The company offers property owners a flexible management solution enabling them to optimize the value they receive from their assets. The company’s portfolio is increasingly diverse and includes apartments, townhouses, aparthotels, hotels, and serviced apartments, in both urban and leisure markets.
DoveVivo is a European residential management platform founded in 2007 with a portfolio of 2,500 units in 40 destinations and 6 countries. DoveVivo provides quick and easy access to a wide range of housing solutions, featured with design, technology and bespoke services for short, medium or long-term rentals. At the same time, it offers private and institutional owners an innovative solution for complete property management.
More information is available at www.dovevivo.com.
Speed Dating Table: 62
👉 Check it out here: https://www.stayaltido.com
Automation and Technology
Guest, team and property automation solutions.
The world’s best property automation software. Streamline your operations and boost revenue with powerful technology for vacation rentals and hotels.
Speed Dating Table: 24
👉 Check it out here: https://operto.com
Duve is a guest management platform like no other.
Increase guest happiness, generate additional revenues, and cut down operational costs – with just a few clicks.
Increase guest happiness, generate additional revenues, and cut down operational costs – with just a few clicks.
Duve’s holistic platform provides hospitality experts with a unified guest management solution, covering the entire digital guest journey from contactless check-in, through a branded guest app, an omnichannel communication hub, and an eCommerce/upselling platform offering the right service to the right guest at the right time.
Regardless of the property you manage, with Duve you can offer guests a personalized experience, tailored to their needs, in their own language, available for them 24/7 at their fingertips.
Duve currently operates in over 60 countries, and supports over 120 integration partners, across all major OTA’s, PMS’s, PSP’s, Digital Key providers and 3rd-party vendors.
Speed Dating Table: 31
👉 Check it out here: https://duve.com
LosjiTech is an Operational Management Platform for short term rentals, hotels, apartment hotels and vacation resorts.
Our platform is tailored to the hospitality industry, consisting (for now) of a central knowledge base and integrated ticketing system with advanced search functionality that is synced with your PMS.
By combining your existing PMS information with the expanded information stored in the knowledge base, we can offer a powerful management tool.
Speed Dating Table: 47
👉 Check it out here: https://losjitech.com/
Cleaning Platforms – Property Care – Operations
TurnoverBnB is an online platform that helps vacation property management companies with cleaning turnovers.
TurnoverBnB’s two distinct services are:
• Automate Cleanings Schedule cleaning, checklists, documentation, inventory and pay cleaners
• Global Marketplace of Cleaners Connect and get bids from experienced cleaners in one or more geographic areas
Available in English, Spanish, French & Portuguese
Speed Dating Table: 35
👉 Check it out here: https://turnoverbnb.com
Breezeway’s property care and operations platform helps coordinate, communicate, and verify detailed work, and deliver the best service experience to clients.
With tools for intelligent task scheduling, quality assurance, real-time work coordination, guest messaging, supplies management, owner reporting, and more, Breezeway helps thousands of short-term rental managers and hospitality operators increase their operational efficiency, eliminate hours of manual work, and boost service revenue.
Founded by Jeremy Gall, an industry leader with deep experience in the vacation rental space (previous founder of FlipKey, acquired by TripAdvisor), Breezeway is elevating the experience at every property.
Speed Dating Table: 59
👉 Check it out here: https://www.breezeway.io
Data Analysis
As the world’s leading provider of vacation rental data and analytics, AirDNA tracks the daily performance of over 10 million listings on Airbnb and Vrbo in 150,000 global markets.
Through a combination of scraped and source data on over 900,000 listings, AirDNA has revolutionised the short-term rental industry by accurately showcasing the daily booking activity of vacation rental properties. Property managers, investors, and hosts all rely on AirDNA’s vacation rental insights to optimise their pricing, benchmark their performance, and outperform the competition.
Through a combination of scraped and source data on over 900,000 listings, AirDNA has revolutionised the short-term rental industry by accurately showcasing the daily booking activity of vacation rental properties. Property managers, investors, and hosts all rely on AirDNA’s vacation rental insights to optimise their pricing, benchmark their performance, and outperform the competition.
Speed Dating Tables: 6, 12, 42
👉 Check it out here:https://www.airdna.co
Transparent track 35 million Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com & TripAdvisor listings to empower scaling property managers with market insights to optimize rate, occupancy & growth. Our PRO & BI data dashboards users report up to 25% growth in revenue.
Speed Dating Tables: 13, 34
👉 Check it out here:https://seetransparent.com/en/
Key Data is the most trusted data and insights platform for professional lodging operators. Key Data’s ProData product is designed to save lodging teams hours of aggregating data sources by seamlessly providing one trusted place for real-time, data-driven decision making thanks to direct integrations with reservation systems. Over 2,300 professional lodging teams around the globe are using Key Data’s expanding portfolio of business intelligence and comparative data products to save time, increase revenue & beat their competition.
Speed Dating Tables: 15, 43
👉 Check it out here: https://www.keydatadashboard.com
Guest Experience & Welcome App
Touch Stay digital guest welcome books replace printed guest information manuals with a hygienic, eco-friendly tool loved by hosts and guests.
The result?
1. You spend less time managing guests
2. Guests ask fewer questions, arrive more prepared and leave happier
3. Better reviews, more repeat bookings and recommendations
86% of users say they’ve halved the time they spend managing guests since introducing Touch Stay guidebook – a 21st-century welcome book that’s easy for you to create and intuitive for guests to use.
Give guests everything they need to know before, during and after their stay:
practical accommodation information
inspirational destination content
personal recommendations
house rules
add-ons and upsells
Brand your guidebook with your colours, logo and fonts, to present slick, on-brand guest communications every time.
Share with guests via a link sent from Touch Stay’s messaging platform ‘Memo’, or copy and paste that into your existing guest communications.
Love updating paper docs or answering the same old annoying guest questions? Nah, us neither! Add your guests to the millions around the world having happier stays with Touch Stay at their fingertips.
Speed Dating Table: 51
👉 Check it out here: https://touchstay.com
Hostfully’s award-winning software helps vacation rental companies provide 5-star hospitality. With property management and guest experience software for short-term rentals, Hostfully helps property managers automate, streamline, and grow their businesses. Hostfully’s Property Management Platform is the most open-source software in the industry and includes dozens of integrations, pipeline management, upselling tools, owner reporting, a centralized calendar, and a platform for widespread channel distribution. Further, Hostfully’s Guidebooks Platform also allows managers to supply travelers with mission-critical property information and local recommendations, with a custom welcome message featuring their unique brands.
Speed Dating Table: 56
👉 Check it out here: https://www.hostfully.com
Guest Screening & Insurance
SUPERHOG combines intelligent guest screening with automatic damage protection and is delivered as a SaaS solution that can be integrated seamlessly within the pre- or post-booking journey.
Speed Dating Table: 17
👉 Check it out here: https://superhog.com
Distribution
The largest selection of hotels, homes, and vacation rentals with over 2,5 Million accommodations in over 85,000 destinations.
Speed Dating Tables: 3, 10, 23, 25
👉 Check it out here:https://booking.com
Speed Dating Tables: 9, 26, 30
👉 Check it out here:https://vrbo.com
Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals that allows the guests to find your perfect accommodation and book for the lowest price.
They work with all the major booking portals and local specialists to offer their visitors the greatest variety of vacation rentals. They compare millions of accommodations from more than 2,000 providers so that the guest can find the ideal vacation rental quickly and easily.
It pays to compare: The same accommodation can cost up to 55% less in the same period. Their image recognition technology detects whether a vacation rental is listed on different websites and always shows the lowest price.
They work with all the major booking portals and local specialists to offer their visitors the greatest variety of vacation rentals. They compare millions of accommodations from more than 2,000 providers so that the guest can find the ideal vacation rental quickly and easily.
It pays to compare: The same accommodation can cost up to 55% less in the same period. Their image recognition technology detects whether a vacation rental is listed on different websites and always shows the lowest price.
Speed Dating Tables: 5, 33, 52
👉 Check it out here: https://www.holidu.com
HomeToGo has the world’s largest selection of vacation rentals and is the fastest-growing vacation rental booking channel in the world, offering property managers a direct booking experience. If you’re not on HomeToGo, join them to expand your reach to millions of new guests. Fast payout, direct guest communication and fast integration – that’s how HomeToGo helps property managers maximize bookings and diversify their revenue streams.
📈Founded in 2014, HomeToGo employs more than 380 people and manages 23 local apps & websites across Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo also operates brands such as Tripping.com, CASAMUNDO and Wimdu.
Speed Dating Tables: 7, 40, 55
👉 Check it out here: https://www.hometogo.com
If you’re looking to expand your reach to more than 160 million travellers that are part of the Marriott Bonvoy travel programme make sure you get a seat at Marriott’s Speed Dating Table to join Homes & Villas by Marriott International’s strong network
Speed Dating Table: 16
👉 Check it out here: https://homes-and-villas.marriott.com
Whimstay is the leading last minute vacation rental marketplace. Whimstay offers last minute deals to travelers by offering them discounted nightly rates on vacation rentals. Property Managers list their unsold inventory on Whimstay platform at a certain discounted percentage.
Speed Dating Table:
👉 Check it out here: https://whimstay.com
Traum was founded in Bremen in 2001 and has been part of OYO Hotels & Homes since 2019, one of the world’s largest providers of hotels, holiday rentals and residences. Around 45 million holidaymakers use Traum’s vacation rental portal (https://www.traum-ferienwohnungen.de) every year and make them the 1st choice for German holidaymakers.
Traum by OYO offers exclusive conditions to all participants of the Vacation Rental World Summit. Check it out here: https://rent.traum.com/vrws/
Speed Dating Table: 18
👉 Check it out here: https://www.traum-ferienwohnungen.de
Luxury Food Hampers
MetsTerroir’s mission is to provide landlords, concierge service providers and rental management companies with high quality ready-to-eat gourmet meals in jars and welcoming hampers with very long shelf life.
Your hosts will be surprised to taste the best of French gastronomy as soon as they have dropped off their suitcases and believe us, this will make their stay unforgettable.
Our offering is especially suited to rental housing outside urban centers with a mid to high-end positioning.
Options range from the first arrival meal to complete weekly pension formulas.
To stand out from the competition you can complete your package with our exceptional catalogue that doesn’t require cooling storage and can be ready in a few minutes. This will raise your guests’ awareness to minimal waste, zero plastic and healthy artisanal gastronomy. By offering or upselling MetsTerroir tasteful meals, you will favour a long-lasting and loyal relationship with your guests who will become your best ambassadors.
Speed Dating Table: 61
👉 Check it out here: https://www.metsterroirpro.com/ (site for business)
👉 Check it out here: https://www.metsterroir.com/ (site for public)
PMS – Channel Managers
Avantio allows you to use Business Intelligence tools, manage your time effectively and provide the best guest experience with powerful vacation rental management software that makes you diversify your distribution strategy with a Channel Manager connected to 50+ different global and local channels.
Speed Dating Tables: 11, 27, 45
👉 Check it out here: https://www.avantio.com
From managing your reservations to ensuring a perfect guests/host communication and planning housekeeping, RentalReady packs a suite of features to manage a wide range of activities while maintaining quality control. On top, it also includes payment processing, pricing algorithm and channel management. Last but not least, the origins of RentalReady separate it from any other PMS: first developed by and for GuestReady, it truly is a “by Property Managers, for Property Managers” software, fully designed from a user needs’ perspective.
Speed Dating Tables:
👉 Check it out here: https://www.rentalready.io
Guesty is an end-to-end property management platform providing professional hosts, owners, independent hotels and property management companies with two core solutions to automate and streamline the complex operational needs of managing flexible inventory: Guesty For Hosts and Guesty For Pros. With these offerings, users can manage listings from multiple online travel agencies including Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and more, and utilize the company’s guest-centric tools including: Unified Inbox, Automation Tools, Staff Management Solutions, Reporting Capabilities, and more.
Speed Dating Table: 19
👉 Check it out here: https://www.guesty.com
Icnea is an all-in-one PMS + Channel Manager for vacational rentals property managers, with all the OTAs and integrations that you need, such as smartlocks or dynamic pricing solutions, as well as apps for your users, owners and guests, and many more features to boost your vacation rental business!
Speed Dating Table: 38
👉 Check it out here: https://icnea.com
Octorate is the easy-to-use All-in-One Hospitality Software that enables you to manage, improve and automate the processes related to your accommodation in an intuitive way.
Online property exposure improvement, effective price strategy, income management, bureaucratic and fiscal duties, guest communication management before, during, and after their stay.
Octorate takes care of everything.
Speed Dating Table: 32
👉 Check it out here: https://octorate.com/
Smily (formerly BookingSync) helps vacation rental owners and managers to increase their revenue by 40% in as little as 30 minutes.
At Smily we believe that property owners and managers should not risk their entire business on a single marketplace. This is why we created Smily, your partner to list your properties on 1000+ marketplaces including Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia. We also centralize guest communication, collect and secure payments, and increase your revenue.
In September 2021, with a team across 17 countries, Smily has been nominated by Airbnb, Booking.com and Expedia, as the world-leading connectivity platform from the entire hospitality industry.
Smily is really a partner for an easy, safe and more profitable vacation rental business.
Speed Dating Tables: 4, 37, 46
👉 Check it out here: https://smily.com/
Do you ever feel overwhelmed when trying to make all the technologies available for vacation rental professionals work well together?
BookingStudio is a property management system that is a joy to use. Our solution contains everything for your vacation rentals business with excellent tools and expert advice. Put together the tech stack you need leveraging the many existing integrations with the best tools and services in the market.
Discover why Scandinavian property managers of all sizes prefer BookingStudio. Focus on what makes your vacation rentals business great with joy and confidence in a solution and a team that works for you.
Speed Dating Table: 29
👉 Check it out here: https://www.bookingstudio.com
Hostfully’s award-winning software helps vacation rental companies provide 5-star hospitality. With property management and guest experience software for short-term rentals, Hostfully helps property managers automate, streamline, and grow their businesses. Hostfully’s Property Management Platform is the most open-source software in the industry and includes dozens of integrations, pipeline management, upselling tools, owner reporting, a centralized calendar, and a platform for widespread channel distribution. Further, Hostfully’s Guidebooks Platform also allows managers to supply travelers with mission-critical property information and local recommendations, with a custom welcome message featuring their unique brands.
Speed Dating Table: 56
👉 Check it out here: https://www.hostfully.com
Revenue Management
Beyond (formerly Beyond Pricing) is a complete revenue management solution for short-term rental managers and owners to get, grow, and keep revenue. Beyond easy-to-use platform includes a dynamic, demand-driven pricing tool with extensive market data that pairs with OTA distribution and a best-in-class booking engine.
Beyond has helped thousands of property managers and property owners like Island Realty, Royal American Beach Getaways, and Coquet Cottages, get the most out of their listings. To date, they have supported over 340,000 properties in more than 7,500 cities worldwide.
Founded in 2013, Beyond is headquartered in San Francisco.
Speed Dating Tables: 8, 39, 53
👉 Check it out here: beyondpricing.com
Turbosuite is a SaaS that aims to maximise STRs and Hotels performance with a revolutionary pricing tool that takes into account a much wider spectrum of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence than other solutions.
Turbosuite analyzes more than 2M data everyday, making it possible to take a proactive approach in pricing and make the necessary changes to increase profitability with no occupancy loss.
Speed Dating Tables: 14, 44, 58
👉 Check it out here: Turbosuite
Security Deposits
💰 Swikly is the specialist of security deposits.
Swikly protect your rentals, secure your reservations and simplify your bookings, with an online security deposit request.
Swikly is designed for short and medium-term rentals, as well as any other rental property, so you can protect your rentals without the constraints of checks, cash, transfers or credit card prints on Eftpos terminals.
Speed Dating Tables: 1, 21, 48
👉 Check it out here: https://www.swikly.com
Smart Locks – Keyboxes – Keyless Entries
Smart home products that do more with less. No keys, no hassle, no fuss. Igloohome lets you do more with less. You can focus on your day-to-day activities while our smart locks keep the right ones in and wrong ones out of your home.
Enjoy the convenience of smart security today.
Speed Dating Table: 50
👉 Check it out here: https://www.igloohome.co
Vikey is a complete hardware and software solution for guest reception allowing you to save time and money. The services offered range from automating all stages of check-in, remotely and with apps opening doors and gates via smart locks, to energy saving and noise control thanks to home automation.
Speed Dating Table: 41
👉 Check it out here: https://vikey.it/en/home-page/
Tedee is the producer of Europe’s smallest, strongest, and most innovative smart lock. By combining the latest IT technology with classical mechanics, Tedee offers a smart digital access system that works perfectly in a short-term rental.
Tedee smart lock is an electronic device that can be installed on the inside of a door, no matter if a residential building or a flat, in minutes – without screws, drilling, or running cables. With the adapter, you don’t even have to replace the existing lock cylinder.
The mobile app and web portal are tools that successfully replace traditional keys – allowing to grant access to guests, employees, cleaning staff, and others – remotely, from anywhere. Access permissions can be easily managed and given to guests for a specific period.
The API enables the property management platform to integrate access control for Tedee smart lock directly into the booking processes. This integration allows hosts to remotely manage access permissions to their properties. It results in significant time and money savings: no need for handling time-consuming and costly key handovers.
Speed Dating Table: 36
👉 Check it out here: https://tedee.com/it/home-7/
Homeit is a technological Portuguese company dedicated to develop smart access control solutions, since 2016.
Homeit main goal is providing customers, businesses or individuals, advanced smart access control solutions that enable them to increase their business, automate recurring tasks and enhance comfort and safety on a daily basis.
That’s why Homeit invited Nuki to join the VRWS this year. Nuki is an Austrian company and European market leader for electronic retrofit Smart Locks. As of today, their smart access solutions have been sold over 200,000 times and they are preferred partner of leading companies like Apple, Google, and Airbnb. With their Nuki Smart Lock, Nuki makes key handovers smart, simple and digital.
With over 3.000 customers and more than 6 million door openings Homeit is present in 14 European countries, in South America (Brazil) and Africa (Mozambique).
Speed Dating Table: 29
👉 Check it out here:https://homeit.io/
👉 Check it out here:https://nuki.io