14 leading Southeast Asia & Oceania holiday rental managers reveal COVID-19 travel trends at Rental Scale-Up conference

Rental Scale-Up, the leading vacation rental industry insights and education platform, today announced the list of speakers for its event: “How villa and holiday rental managers in Southeast Asia & Oceania have adapted to COVID-19”. This free online conference takes place on May 27-28, 2020.

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“Lower reliance on international travel platforms, higher cleanliness standards, more self-check-ins, and fewer Europeans, this is how villa and holiday rental managers see 2020 bookings in Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand”, said Thibault Masson, CEO, and Founder of Rental Scale-Up. “Attendees at our online event will be best prepared for what’s happening next in these COVID-19 times and be inspired by the region’s top visionaries and on-the-ground operators as they share facts and data about the path to recovery.”

The speakers will be discussing the current trends that they see in their markets, especially in Australia, Indonesia (Bali), New Zealand, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Here is a preview of these trends:
- Villas are a great accommodation format when self-distancing is a must-have: They allow guests to live in their own bubble of friends and family, while self-isolating as a group in a comfortable setting.
- The place and role of villa staff are being redefined: Is the definition of luxury still to have staff at hand all day long or is it better to have them as invisible as possible? How can villa managers preserve the health of their staff, while welcoming guests again?
- In urban short-term rental markets such as Sydney, the switch to longer stays may be tempting, but travel managers will need to trust the quality and cleanliness standards of short-term rental operators before sending business travelers.
- European travelers will not be much present in our region in 2020. While global platforms like Airbnb have been successful to attract international travelers to the region, holiday rental managers may need to turn to regional actors such as Agoda, Traveloka, and Tujia to attract inter-regional and domestic travelers.

For this online vacation rental conference, topics and speakers are carefully curated to inspire attendees about the business and disruption potential of the industry, and to inform them on changing trends across geographies, customer segments, and property types.
Speakers at this year’s conference include Jon Stonham, CEO, Elite Havens, Quirin Schwaighofer, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, MadeComfy; Daniel Rouquette, Managing Director & co-founder, Villa Finder; David Whelan, CEO, Urban Rest Apartments; Baron Jamesson and Andrew Macdonald, Zenguest Bali; Best Haputpong, VP of Business Development, igloohome; Jing Cho Yang, CEO, Bukit Vista; Marc Ribail, Director, Rentivo; Anurag Verma, Co-Founder, PriceLabs, Joanne Bourke, Managing Director, Bach Break Taranaki, Yoav Tourel, Managing Director APAC, Guesty; Jack Eden, CEO, Villas in Sri Lanka; Rex Brown, Founder, Holiday Rental Mastery; Victor Bosselaar, Data Partnerships, AllTheRooms Analytics and more. The entire line-up can be found here:

https://www.rentalscaleup.com/villa-holiday-rentals-covid19/.

Contact Info:
Name: Thibault Masson
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Organization: Rental Scale-Up
Address: Rental Scale-Up, Villa Domingue, BP1133, 97113 Saint Barthelemy, French West Indies
Phone: +590690607906
Website: https://www.rentalscaleup.com/

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