Smily, ensure the seasonal rental of your home simply

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Smily provides a practical solution to all managers and owners of furnished apartments. With the arrival of the holidays, the demand for short-term rentals increases . Also, faced with the multitude of rental platforms, management is not facilitated. It is then necessary to manage several platforms, and centralize everything manually so as not to miss any rental. In this context, Smily provides a solution: that of centralizing all rentals in the same place. This makes it easier to manage short bookings in the summer.

Smily, a platform that brings together more than 600,000 homes in France

Smily is a service driven by BookingSync that has been around since 2020. This service allows owners of furnished real estate to rent them during the summer period without getting lost in rental platforms. Indeed, booking platforms such as AirBnb or Booking make it easier to connect owners and tenants. However, managing all rentals requires a flawless organization for rental companies (1).

Also, Smily works like other platforms. Owners of furnished accommodation register, put online their ad with photos of their property, their rates and all the necessary information for customers. The platform only recovers a service fee of around 9% HT on each rental made. A solution that allows the owner, the tenant and Smily to win at the exchange.

Tourism is evolving, and Smily is positioning itself as a true “Channel Manager”, where property managers can quickly connect calendars and synchronize data from each platform. In the geographical areas popular during the summer holidays, rentals are numerous, and often short. It is then necessary and essential to have an overview so as not to lose the thread.

Easily rent your accommodation with Smily

Seasonal rentals, an unfavorable concept for professional hotels?

The multiplication of seasonal rental platforms like Smily raises questions, in the face of growing success. In this context, what is the place of traditional hotels, which have experienced great difficulty during the pandemic? The latter want to restart their season, after particularly restrictive restrictions.

Faced with the multiplication of solutions, the traditional hotel industry is no longer the default solution for staying on holiday. This then impacts the volume of hotel nights, to the detriment of professionals. Seen as pet peeves, platforms such as Smily then cut the grass under the feet of hoteliers. However, it seems that these platforms can also, for some professionals, be an engine of recovery.

Indeed, comparators are open to both individuals and managers… And hotels (2). Hotel establishments can register on these platforms, such as on Booking. This allows them to have even more visibility and to be able to strengthen their presence on site thanks to these platforms.

Smily develops to meet the needs of furnished managers, by offering them to have a simplified management of calendars. A platform designed to make the holidays more enjoyable, in all simplicity.

Sources:

(1) Renting your accommodation during the summer holidays: the automation of reservations at the service of the management and profitability of seasonal rentals. Press release published on April 27, 2022

(2) Airbnb is the best thing that has happened to hotels in a long time Hotel Tech Report

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