As a property manager, you’re likely to be juggling multiple responsibilities. If you ask any modern property manager what they would like more of (besides clients ...
We are excited to announce our latest integration with hotellab, an advanced Revenue Management System (RMS) designed to revolutionize hoteliers’ revenue management and operations. 5 Features That Make Hotellab an Excellent Customisable RMS H...
Located near the airport and the city of Zagreb, hotel Garden Hill offers the perfect blend of comfort and convenience, whether traveling for business or leisure. This family...
Tourism is one of the leading industries and drivers of the economy of the Republic of Croatia, which generates as much as 20% of the national GDP. In 2023,...
Entrepreneur Domagoj Dujić is one of the co-owners of Manda Heritage Hotel, the company’s director, and the main person responsible for renovating the hotel located...
In the world of tourism every detail matters, and today, more than ever, the emphasis is on providing a premium experience for ever...
Property management as an industry branch in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not yet at the same level as in some other Balkan countries, such as ...
This article celebrates the launch of a new partnership between hotel experiences platform Turneo and Rentlio. Through the new integration, hotels are able to offer personalized, tracked, and bookable recommen...
Understanding and managing Hotel Guest Acquisition Costs (GAC) is crucial for optimizing hotel profitability. GAC influences pricing decisions and determines the tangible value guests receive for th...
Achieving and sustaining a high hotel occupancy rate is crucial for success in the hospitality industry, directly impacting overall revenue. This metric, influenced by hotel type, location, and guest experience,...
Deciding between on-premise and cloud-based Hotel Property Management Systems (PMS) is crucial in the ever-evolving hotel tech industry. The PMS is the core of hotel operations, linking hoteliers ...
Hoteliers recognize a hotel Property Management System (PMS) as a cornerstone tool in their business operations. The impact of quality cloud-based property management software is substantial—simplifying daily hotel operations, enhancing efficiency, and cr...
The hotel room rate represents one of the most critical decisions a hotelier can make, as it can have an extremely positive or negative impact on the final income. In today&...
Hoteliers are constantly adapting to new ways of doing business to meet the demands of their guests effectively. The Hotel Property Management System (Hotel PMS) is the most critical tool for deliv...
Managing vacation rentals can be a challenging task. Selecting the right vacation rental channel manager and property management software (PMS) is crucial for efficient reservation management and ...
In today’s fast-paced digital era, the hotel industry relies on technology to streamline operations and enhance guest experiences. The hotel reservation management system is essential for easy bookings, effective management, and...
Effective guest communication is pivotal in the hospitality industry, influencing booking decisions and setting expectations for a great stay. Communication in the hospitality industry has evolved in recent years. ...
The hotel front desk serves as the gateway to guest experiences. To ensure memorable stays and exceptional guest service, providing your staff with effective tools for various scenarios is imperative. Optimiz...
Only select vacation rental software applications and property management systems have achieved Airbnb Preferred Software Partner status. Rentlio Channel Manager has met the necessary criteria due to its innovative man...
Tradition, quality and authenticity best describe Hotel Bevanda. This hotel is located in a great spot in Opatija, just by the sea. It has modern decor, i...
The profitability of bookings from OTAs and direct hotel bookings is significant in the hotel industry. These platforms connect millions of travelers with hotel rooms, apartments, and destinations, offering powerful...
Double bookings, overbooking, and overlapping bookings – how to prevent such situations? Many fear overbooking to such an extent that they refrain from advertising their vacation rentals and properties...
Sweeply simplifies housekeeping management, communication, and collaboration, saving hoteliers and property managers an average weekday per employee. The housekeeping staff coordination is essential to offer your guests a flawless experien...
Check-in is the registration process of guests, and in Croatia, vacation rentals, property managers, and hoteliers are obliged to enter each guest in the eVisitor system. Dur...
During the last year, we witnessed how quickly the situation can change. Despite all the ups and downs, we managed to stay on the course....
Airbnb has once again awarded Rentlio the status of Preferred Software Partner, recognizing us as an essential part of connecting hosts with Airbnb’s growing community. Rentlio is created...
Hospitality is constantly evolving. Today’s hoteliers are not tied to traditional hotel models – sometimes not even to walls. However, the current tech companies continue to li...
Many hotels and vacation rentals have recently focused on acquiring more direct bookings. Many objects have built a successful direct channel using the hotel reservation syst...
The best thing you can do with the new season is to update the questions you ask your guests when communicating by phone calls. ...
What is digitization anyway? Digitalization is a process that uses technology and data as a lever for further development. This process involves transforming internal business processes and operations,...
The best channel managers connect OTA channels reliably and synchronize reservations in real-time. A high-quality channel manager will accurately display all OTA reservation ...
Even for the experienced, choosing a new management system can be daunting. Technological progress, the so-called digital transformation, in the hotel and hospitality industry has immensely impr...
Unlike wine, traditional hotel systems do not get better with age. The pandemic has accelerated the need for cloud-based property management systems transforming traditional job positions a...
Guests today demand more – just as much as hoteliers and vacation rentals should from technology and hotel systems as the foundations of impeccab...
Infinum Ventures, an investment component of one of the largest Croatian IT companies – Infinum, has made a strategic investment in Rentlio. After sev...
Search engines are vital to hospitality. In that equation, Google is the king 👑 With an almost almighty search engine, Google offers powerful tools. One o...
Google my Business is a helpful tool. The benefits of local search are unquestionable. Using GMB listing, it is relatively easy to achieve results by updating photos, g...
There is a lot of talk about personalization. The fact is that one of the best ways to highlight your offer is the personalization and customizat...
Nowadays, most communication is digital. So, why not offer guests the opportunity to communicate on their terms? According to Statista, more than 2.5 million peop...
The transition to digital communication is natural. Hospitality and the travel industry have advanced technologically over the last decade, from the booking speed to the...
Sending messages is finally in focus. Hotels, apartments, hostels and campsites are starting to accurately interpret the signs that guests have been sending for years. Millennials are the most cri...
Hospitality equipment fair HoReCa Adria in Opatija, held last month, gathered eighty-two exhibitors from Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Serbia. Including us ✌️ The rich fair program included everything from p...
Accommodation alone is not enough if you do not combine your offer with impeccable service and unique experiences. And the Next-Gen guests expect much, much more. Many have already adjusted ba...
Everything is photographed, everything is filmed – especially on the omnipresent mobile phones cameras. To the extent that places are often designed to be visually ...
Available since 2010 and bought by Facebook in 2012, Instagram’s popularity is not waning. Intended for more than personal use, Instagram promotes, connects with guests, and re...
Travel and hospitality are visual industries. There is so much to show. However, competition is harsh. Social media feeds are full of beautiful hotels, apartments or hostel...
The Preferred Software Partner status highlights the quality and growth of software providers around the world. This recognition is a new step forward in providing the highest service quality to our customers. Preferred Software Partner initi...
With uncertain demand due to safety concerns and a slowdown in the economy, apartments, hostels, hotels and campgrounds will face stiff competition to attract and retain gues...
As a result of the pandemic, the entire travel industry should rethink loyalty programs to successfully adapt to the new normal and deliver guests’ personalized experiences. Traditional loyalty programs, therefore, expect a shift...
Differentiating your offer from the rest of the highly competitive competition is a task that requires the full attention of any hotelier or vacation rental. It is even more prominen...
Hospitality has grown faster than global gross domestic product in the last nine years. Last year’s pause costed hospitality at least $ 3.4 trillion 💰 The change of generations, different...
Hospitality and travel are fragile industries. In uncertain times, adaptability and flexibility are valued skills that provide an edge over competitors – in all industries. The pa...
During the pandemic, restrictions changed all aspects of life and business. As people worldwide have adapted to change, hoteliers and vacation rentals have changed thei...
The technological solution has a greater chance to be implemented if it affects the guest experience. Conveniently, hoteliers and vacation rentals primarily offer experience....
The pandemic primarily caused the popularity of contactless technologies. Large-scale and impact disorders, such as COVID, provide an opportunity to rethink the way we do business and c...
Aware of the ongoing challenging season for many, we bring you the Rentlio updates we prepared in July to make it easier for you ...
We decided to list a few Facebook pages that we love for what they say and how they say it. Hopefully, the list will inspire you, too. 🤩 Mariott – @Marriott Mari...
Facebook is an excellent channel for attracting new guests, achieving more direct reservations, maintaining a quality relationship with guests. According to recent research, Facebook is the primary communication an...
Hospitality may have delayed the introduction of sustainable practices in recent years, but the pandemic has accelerated this process. According to research, awareness of climate change is present mainly in ...
Due to significant expenses and slow return on investment, few have adopted sustainability measures. According to a 2018 report by the European Travel Commission, Tourism and Clim...
Due to the imposed restrictions, bans and reduced reach of passengers and guests – we (re)turned to each other. We started to search for a more accessible, nearby and ...
Today, very few applications and digital solutions achieve their goals independently, without connecting to other systems for data exchange purposes. Open systems crucial for optimization depend on ...
Positioning on OTA channels and how to achieve the highest possible rank is one of those questions to which the answer is a little bit longer. ...
Online reputation management (ORM) refers to conducting strategies to shape the perception of the public and guests about the organization, individual or – i...
Many guests and travelers are accustomed to booking and choosing accommodation using online travel agencies. The Expedia research “Quality Counts: The value of OTA travelers” describes in more detail the c...
The travel industry and tourism, in general, have been affected by the most significant disruption in decades. And no, we are not talking about a pandemic. 🦠 No generati...
We are more than honored to announce that Emerging Capital Group, based in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, has become our new partner, joining Rentlio in sharing a vision to...
Do you have a channel manager? If not, how do you manage your sales channels and bookings from Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, and other booking portals? Are you a loyal buy...
Marketing is like a sand tower. Everything can collapse in a second. To adapt to the sudden changes and build a respectable reputation, try to avoid the mist...
With endless choices, reaching out to a guest seems more challenging than ever before. Many guests experienced inconveniences first-hand with online travel agencies due to the mass cancell...
Your website is optimized, social media profiles are active and regularly updated. What else is left? 🤔 Start by wondering how the booking process looks from the guest’s perspective. Yo...
What does the implementation of the technological solution indicate for employees of the hospitality sector? How significant is the technology impact on an industry based on close contact? More intuitive than eve...
Pandemic highlighted the necessity for digital solutions. According to a Deloitte survey, 40% of respondents in 2020 bought online. As many as 41% believe that slow or inadeq...
Being physically present in your apartment, hostel, hotel, or campground, especially if there are several of them, is a challenge, but it is much easier if you use mobile ...
This time last year, the world was brutally introduced to a plague called the coronavirus. Borders were closed, strict measures were introduced, and carefree travel f...
The average property management system will automate a property’s operational processes, from front desk to back office. It will also manage the reservations, rates and payment while ensuring greater eff...
Smartphones are everywhere. We need them to shop, read the news, wake up in the morning, and sometimes contact family members and friends. 😉 Smart devices are a growing platform whos...
Google introduced the term of micro-moments back in 2015. Micro-moments occur when reflexively looking at the device – mostly a smartphone – in response to th...
An efficient property management system (PMS) is the lifeblood of every hotel and vacation rental. But, is everyone fully aware of how essential is the openness ...
The behaviors and expectations of passengers and guests are changing due to the pandemic and how online booking channels have changed. As one conditions...
According to the latest European Travel Commission report, 32% of surveyed passengers intend to travel between April and June this year, an increase of 20% compar...
At Rentlio, we worked 243 days from home during the previous year, and we are still counting. If you are interested...
And why do we believe it is right now? According to McKinsey’s data, 5 years of business digitization progress has been achieved in just 8 weeks of the pandemi...
Given last year’s predictions of a complete flood of tourism and the world as we know it, creativity, innovation, and perseverance have ultimately conditioned new solutions, new perspectives...
In recent months, one thing has remained certain – change. All business decisions and predictions are based on accurate and timely information. However...
Although we have so far accepted the status of a “new normal” and sometimes tedious coexistence with the virus COVID – 19, life ...
Together with co-founder of PriceLabs Richie Khandelwal, we enjoyed talking to our mutual user Oli Walsh from Revilo properties. Oli is the Managing Director at Revilo Properties...
We visited Patricija Stipčević, the owner of Lavandula apartments in Zadar, to tell us their story and how PMS and channel manager were c...
We had a pleasure to talk with a front office manager Josip Pribilović from the beautiful hotel Marul in Split. Rea...
When you work in a traditional office, it’s easy to fall into a routine. Every day you get dressed in business casual, commute to wor...
The year 9/11 attacks have shaken the world to its core, international travel has dropped by 11%. Eight years later, a financial crisis that left lasting ...
Did you know that you can expect a growth in demand for pet-friendly rentals this year? Personalization and loyalty programs are currently be...
You don’t have to be a fan of apples, but you’ll still think of the American tech giant as soon as you see a half...
Will the virus subside once the weather warms up, how should you approach guest cancellations and what’s the best way to drive bookings in these trying times? Rentlio b...
In the first quarter of 2019, the number of unique mobile phone users grew to 4 billion, and 48% of the website vis...
Instagram has become a new travel guide, and influencers have become your new trip advisors. Not only do they help you choo...
This time we talked to Vinko Antunović, the founder and multi-property manager of Check-in Point agency located in Zagreb, ...
We sat down in Split with Ciro Sabljic – manager and the owner of the lovely Ćiri Biri Bela hostel to get insigh...
Could you share your story with us? How it all started for you? Our family started working in tourism 20 years ago by r...
Automatic, data-driven pricing updates ensure you’re listing your accommodation at the best price at any given time – especially now – during the COVID-19 pandemic...
We invited Isabela Stefanovici, Representative at Istra Fortuna, to tell us more about their success story and how PMS and channel manager were crucial to accomp...
As someone who doesn’t have any background in tourism, I knew very little about tourism and all the advantages Rentlio offers to its customers. Bu...
This time we were happy to visit Kristian Auer, the hotel manager of Villa Nepos Hotels in beautiful Split. How would you define success when it...
Do you have beautiful accommodation with a sea view? Excellent. Clean and tidy rooms? Amazing. Friendly staff and impeccable service? Very commendable. Ho...
Don’t let the memes and self-deprecating jokes deceive you; behind silly bitmojis and glowing screens is a sophisticated generation preparing for a life well-traveled. They’re the digital nativ...
Managing a place, event, or people is a challenging job. When you combine all three of those things, you get the role of a hotel manag...
The customer is always right, they say. They also say nothing is impossible but have you tried licking your elbow or sneezing w...