Mark Simpson covers the daily operations that make short-term rentals work: cleaning, maintenance, guest communication. Airbnb now surfaces higher-quality listings first, so operational excellence directly affects bookings.
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They think to themselves, like operations. Like, what exactly is that? Right. But what it is, is it's, it's the nitty gritty work of actually being a host. It's everything except marketing and taking the reservation. Right. And there's so much of that that has become so much more important in the business. And I think I've really enjoyed. It's such a dynamic industry, travel in general, but short term rental and vacation rental specifically, is so dynamic and ever changing. And I think another interesting sort of trend over this time has been professionalism and quality and how you can see it at Airbnb through favorited homes and kind of the prioritization and the changes that they're making. In search, everyone's focusing on quality and how to surface these quality experiences to guests. And I think it's incredibly fascinating.