Welcome to the Boostle podcast where we give hosts all over the world the tools,

the tactics, the training and the confidence to increase their direct

bookings. And today I wanted to tap into the hotels versus Airbnb sort of

thing that's flying around on social media at the moment. When you get into

this industry and you're in a short-term rental business, maybe you pick up

property number one from whatever means, maybe you've owned it, maybe you've

advertised it, maybe you're doing the co-host, whatever you're trying to do.

But as you grow and as you scale, you may be more aware of different models,

different vehicles to go down. And one of the routes is hotels, boutique hotels.

And this is what my guest today has done. Hotels are back back to 2018,

2019 demand. And with COVID and everything that happened during

their when hope hotels had to shut down, more people were made more aware of

vacation rentals, thanks to no cruises and all of those things, right? And

so many people going to this game because they were on a long-term rental

basis, they saw the gains from short-term rentals and dived into the

market. And there's so many people that got involved. And so what we're going

to talk about today, the cream always rises to the top. And we'll talk about

this today. But the one thing that is coming back is hotels. Now, because of

this and because of traditional hotels becoming outdated, maybe there's not

enough young people coming into the industry. And it just means that there's

a lot of owners right now that are just tired and want to sell. And people

with the systems and the structures in place that know how to run a very

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