Preferred Partner

Vrbo, Where families travel better together.

Choose your Full-Service Channel Manager for Vrbo to easily list your accommodations.

With over 2 million bookable vacation rentals, Vrbo connects homeowners with families and vacationers looking for something more than a hotel for their trip. The Vrbo community offers families an array of rental property types such as condos, cabins, lake rentals, beach houses, and more. Vrbo’s mission is to find every family the space they need to relax, reconnect, and enjoy precious time away together. Listing with Vrbo, also means automatic distribution towards their other brands, Abritel.fr, FeWo-direkt.de, Bookabach.co.nz and Stayz.com.au

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VRBO, Where families travel better together

PREFERRED PARTNER

Why choose NextPax as a Channel Manager to run your accommodations on Vrbo?

Awarded

For years we have been a strategic and preferred channel manager for Vrbo. They have awarded us for our state of the art connectivity being their Preferred Partner globally for accommodation companies looking to connect via channel management solutions. We are very proud on the long-lasting relationship we have with the Vrbo team.

Content Management

NextPax Travel Technology is offering full content management on the connection towards Vrbo. Your pictures, descriptions, amenities and any related section related to Vrbo’s content requirements can be shared from our system.

Onboarding Solution

Once you have your Vrbo Advertiser ID, we can fully build your accommodations on Vrbo. Did you know we can build 40.000 accommodations and have those hosted on Vrbo within 5 minutes?

Custom Cancellation Policy

NextPax Travel Technology has the opportunity to provide your custom cancellation and prepayment policy towards Vrbo. This is a huge advantage in our Vrbo connection, and a competitive advantage for them overall – as they allow accommodation partners to distribute under their own policies towards the Vrbo audience.

Reviews

With Vrbo, you have the opportunity to provide reviews that you have sourced yourself – either from your own brand.com website or offline. You can upload these reviews via us towards all websites of the Vrbo family.

Diverse Pricing Solutions

Through NextPax you are able to set a diverse range of pricing solutions for Vrbo. We do operate on a Length of Stay model with Vrbo, which enables you to set prices for any length of stay, any stay date and for each occupancy. Also we can let Vrbo know which taxes or additional fees are payable on location of the property. Also you can rent your accommodation towards long-stay guests, who stay up to 90 days in your accommodation.

Characteristics of NextPax’s connection with Vrbo

Key Features of Vrbo

Type
Description
Category
OTA
Geographic focus
Global
Segment
Hotels, Vacation Rentals, Holiday Parks, Resorts and alternative accommodations
Pricing Model
Commission based
Commission
Varied per country
Content Management
Bookings, Cancellations, Modifications, Booking Status Retrieval, Report Offline, Bookings, Cancellation by owner
Reservation Management
Bookings, Cancellations, Modifications, Booking Status Retrieval, No-Show Reporting, Invalid-CC Reporting
Pricing & Availability
Length of Stay Pricing, Long Stay Pricing (>90 nights), Availability up to 465 days
Extra Features
Upload your own Reviews, Upload your own cancellation and prepayment policy
Onboarding time
Few minutes
Merchants of Records
Accommodation partner
Payment Solutions to capture guest payments
Traveller Credit Cards, Vrbo Virtual Cards (new), Payment Link

Why choose Vrbo

Top brand

Vrbo is a brand that’s top of mind for families and groups of friends searching for the perfect place to stay on their next vacation. The Vrbo family of websites are the go-to option to book vacation homes, cabins, cottages, and condos.They have 15,9 million worldwide unique visitors and about 257 million page views every month

More control

Vrbo is the acronym for Vacation rentals by owners, and this is fetched through the entire experience. You, as a vacation rental owner, can use your own policies to advertise on Vrbo and you can upload your own sourced reviews. Also unlike other channels, they allow you to upload and use your own property descriptions

Many resources

With Vrbo being part of the Expedia Group, there are a lot of resources made available to improve the product, demand generation and services offered to vacation rental owners every day. Did you know that more than 1,000 people at Vrbo are working every day to improve the partner experience and to deliver your next guests?

Exceptional guests

Vrbo is bringing exceptional travellers to your doorstep. On average families who book on Vrbo: Spend 5 times more than other travellers, Stay 3 times longer than other travelers and give rave reviews, you as a property manager can on average earn a 4.9 out of 5 stars

Market-level insights

Accommodation partners that list on Vrbo get access to extensive global Vrbo data to give market-level insights based on property, pricing, location data and more. You can then use this data to make smart decisions that drive your visibility, bookings and revenue

Promotion

When you list on Vrbo, your property is automatically distributed across all global Vrbo sites, such as: Abritel.fr, FeWo-direkt.de, Bookabach.co.nz and Stayz.com.au

Support

Vrbo offers state of the art sales, account management and onboarding support. Aside from that you can benefit from tier-1 and tier-2 support teams if anything unexpected happens

Flexible cancellation policies

Vrbo offers a simplistic but flexible set of cancellation policies for hosts to select. There are 6 policies to select, from No Refund, Strict towards, Firm, Moderate and Relaxed. Did you know that hosts with Moderate or Relaxed policies can end up with a booking and stay increase of more than 20%? And on top of that they offer a custom option as well, for you to distribute your unique cancellation and prepayment policy

FAQ

Personalized solutions

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