Requirements to be met by a good tourist apartment manager
When you have a second home available and you decide to market it as a holiday home, the first thing you may think is that it is a very complicated task. Surely before this occasion you have never had experience in the world of tourism or marketing, maybe it is a world away from you and you think you know nothing about the management of holiday apartments. It's all about having a positive attitude, willing to learn from the success stories of the best property managers.
Characteristics of a perfect vacation home manager
Good property managers are not satisfied with just placing an ad and waiting. In today's competitive world, if you are not proactive in the management you will not get a good volume of bookings for your vacation home. If you decided to take the plunge because you thought that the income from marketing that vacant, unused property, don't get halfway there. You have to apply some of the strategies followed by the most successful managers. From Alquilair we want you to be one of them, that's why we have made an essential list with everything that the most experienced managers do.
Price optimization: Just as it is important to have an attractive property, it is also important that its price is optimized according to the market and the competition. You need to have some ideas when calculating the price of your vacation home. In addition, the most professional vacation home managers take into account different prices for different seasons.
Good booking management: Once the client has decided on your property to spend his dream vacation, you have to make the booking process as easy as possible. For this, good managers always determine the price per night and per week so that the calculation of the final price is faster and there are no possible errors. Also keep all possible contact channels, either by e-mail or phone, or even social networks or messaging applications such as Whatsapp, to confirm reservations and give the appropriate legal information.
Don't forget the check-in management: Once the reservation is confirmed, the best tourist apartment managers take care of the check-in. It is the first impression that the client will have of us live. That is why it is so important. Guests must be properly received, the keys must be handed over and they must be given all the information they need, including tourist advice. It is also important not to forget to do the same for the guest's departure.
Cleaning and maintenance: You have to ensure, directly or indirectly, that the cleaning service of the house, as well as its maintenance and the replacement of bathroom and bedroom linen is impeccable. Otherwise these small details count more than you may think.
Guest analysis: If there is one thing that the best property managers agree on, it is customer analysis. They are the ones who can best help us in professional management. According to their comments, we will learn more to improve and better facilitate the experience of accommodation in our home in the future to other customers.
In case you don't want to do it all yourself
If you think you are not going to have time or you are not able or willing to manage everything yourself, from Alquilair we advise you to hand over the work to a professional. There is the figure of the vacation home manager, who will help you with a wide range of services in the set-up and maintenance, in the delivery of keys, in the analysis to help you find a good price for your rental or even in the rental of bed and bath linen, and you know, in that, we are specialists.
