At the show, I want to very quickly say thank you to our podcast sponsor, which is hostfully,

so those of you that have been hiding under a rock for a very long time and don't know who

hostfully are, they are one of the market leaders in the digital guidebook world. If you haven't yet

got a digital guidebook for your hospitality business, please make sure it's the thing that you

do today. The best thing about digital guidebooks is it is free to get started. Go to h-o-s-t-f-u-l-l-y.com

and you can get a free digital guidebook today from hostfully. What you can do from there is you can

inform your guests about any changes that are currently happening in your local area. You can tell

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not just for rentals, it can be used for bed and breakfasts as well. So go and get your free

digital guidebook by going to hostfully.com. There is a freemium option you can upgrade to get more

digital guidebooks and more features. When you do that, if you'd like two months free, please put

boostly to m-b-o-o-s-t-l-i-2-m in the coupon code section, you'll get two months free. I'll be back

later in this episode just to mention, hopefully, one more time, but just want to say thank you so

much to all of the team at hostfully for continuing to sponsor the podcast. It means the world. So

let's get on with the show. As you all will know by now, I am a massive believer in making the OTA's

work for you and not the other way around. Now, there may be some of you that are watching this

video. I listened to this podcast episode and you are fully booked up for the rest of 2021.

Congratulations. Well done. You've smashed it. There may be a lot of you who still need bookings.

And this is where, especially in times when it's just reopening or barren times or shoulder

season, whatever you want to talk about it, is where we need to make the OTA's work for us.

And so what I want to do in this episode is give you a little sneak peek, give you some latest stats

on how you can get more attention and potentially more bookings through Airbnb. So my name is Mark

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