How have Airbnb and Booking com Treated Their Hosts During COVID-19 with Moriya Rockman
The Boostly Podcast
Mark Simpson
5.0 • 302 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Go, hello everybody. Thank you for tuning in and joining us this evening. I'm really |
| 0:15.1 | excited to talk about this topic because we're going to be covering so many |
| 0:18.0 | and tonight's guests. Very kindly brought along a nice little slide show as well. |
| 0:22.4 | So we're going to be able to go for a few things, pass on loads of hints and tips. |
| 0:26.0 | So let's get started. Before we do get going, please make sure we've got a little like and |
| 0:30.8 | comment goal tonight. What I want for everybody to do, I want to get over 30 likes of this post, |
| 0:36.0 | this video, this interview. I want to get 30 comments with hashtag book direct because this is |
| 0:40.0 | what this podcast series is all been about. This is what these daily live videos are all about, |
| 0:44.0 | is to help you increase and get more direct bookings. So this is what I want everybody to do. |
| 0:50.0 | Hit that like button, give the thumbs up and in the comments put hashtag book direct. |
| 0:54.2 | All right, so let me just bring in today's guest Mariah from Smiling House Mariah. How are we doing? |
| 0:58.6 | Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. So could you please just for everybody that is |
| 1:03.6 | watching, just give us a brief introduction to who you are, where you are in the world, |
| 1:09.1 | and then we'll get started with today's show. I'm the founder of Smiling House, which is a Swiss |
| 1:15.3 | company based here in the Swiss apps in Stad. We are focusing in a small niche that's called |
| 1:20.9 | the luxury segment in the vacation rental, and we're doing a lot of direct booking, working with |
| 1:27.1 | many property managers and homeowners around the world in our niche and 24 countries and 70 |
| 1:33.8 | destinations. Very, very big fan of the more booking direct movement. Believe that that's what we |
| 1:41.3 | are here for. I want to just to start and I want to ask a question to everybody, whether you're watching |
| 1:45.7 | this live or whether you're watching this back on the replay is what is your opinions on how |
| 1:51.0 | Airbnb, booking.com and the likes have acted during COVID, the basically this pandemic. Do you |
| 1:56.5 | think they're done enough to look after hosts, or could they have done more? Mariah, what I would |
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