Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and welcome wherever you're turning in from

around the world. My name is Mark Simpson, giving hosts all over the world the tools,

the tactics, the training, and the confidence to boost your diary bookings. I have got a very

special little insert from a recording from the book, Direct Virtual Summit that we hosted

a few weeks ago. It's a fireside discussion with Mr. Marcus Radar of Hostaway. He shared

some phenomenal tips and a little sneak peek to the Hostaway short term rental 2023 report.

And by now you tune into this, the report is up and you can go and view it on hostaway.com.

Please do go check it out. Whilst you're on Hostaway, do go and book in your demo,

go and have a chat with them. Marcus is a very, very gifted talented chap. I've got the pleasure

of knowing a more and more over the year, and in this he's going to talk about findings from the

report, a little bit of what to look out for from Hostaway in 2024 and everything else in between.

So without further ado, let me flip the screen and let's hear from the man himself.

Thank you very much for having me on here, Mark. So my name is Marcus Radar from Hostaway.

I'm the CEO and co-founder of Hostaway, which is a PMS that got for those who didn't know it

before. This year, maybe the news about 175 million we raised sort of established that, yeah,

we're one of the biggest players in the world when it comes to vacation rental technology.

My job and my dedication and passion for the last eight years that I've been working on this

is knowing everything I can about the vacation rental space, both technology, properties,

real estate, macro trends, and of course the landscape of OTAs. And thank you, Mark, by the way,

for leading the battle for direct bookings. I'm actually, we have a bit of a surprise here,

because we do an annual survey among our clients, and we haven't released anything before,

because our marketing theme has been very lean. But this year, we're going to release our 2023

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