Holidu Magazine

You've found a holiday rental website you like and have started to advertise a holiday home. Now the first guests are arriving, so what’s next? Creating a professional invoice may seem like a minor step, but it's actually essential. If you try to cut corners here, you could face legal problems. Read on for the guidelines you should follow.

If you own a property in Spain that you let out while being based in the UK, then you will have to consider how to declare your rental income, even though you might not be living in the same country as your holiday home. Do you want to know what the rental tax in Spain is for non-residents? This handy guide provides information on taxes and regulations applicable to non-resident hosts with holiday rentals in Spain.

Would you like to boost the profitability of your holiday home? Well, we're here to help you do just that, as well as improve occupancy rates. But what exactly is the occupancy rate? Essentially, it's the percentage difference between the total available days of our property and the actual days it's occupied.

The furnishing of your holiday rental is crucial for ensuring guest satisfaction. Here's a basic guide on how to furnish a holiday rental apartment or home to make it both a pleasant and tasteful place to stay.

Holidu, one of the leading vacation rental companies in Europe, has announced the opening of a new office in Seville. With this expansion, the company strengthens its presence in Western Andalusia, where it was already operating from its headquarters in Málaga, and consolidates its growth in Spain.

Need to maximise your summer holiday rental performance? Want to know how to prepare for the peak season? In the following article, we'll give you some key tips on this. We'll explain how to provide quality service, increase profits, and attract travellers to your client portfolio. We'll analyse the current holiday rental market and provide you with strategic information to optimise your properties for increased demand, and we'll tell you how to implement effective pricing strategies to enhance guest experience. Join us through this guide to kick off the peak season on the right foot on our holiday rental portal.

Renting out holiday homes can be quite daunting for hosts. Here we lay out the most common mistakes made by holiday rental hosts, so you can avoid problems and safeguard your property.

In this article, we'll discuss how to set prices in holiday rentals, explain what dynamic pricing is, and in contrast, how fixed prices work and what advantages and disadvantages they entail. Join us in this guide to establish prices and ensure your holiday rental business runs smoothly.

In this article, various retention strategies for holiday rentals are explored. In addition, technical facilities and post-stay follow-up are mentioned as key tools to retain customers and encourage their return.

Explore the tourism trends of 2024: from the rise of solo travel and wellness tourism to the growing popularity of trains as the preferred mode of transport. Discover how Artificial Intelligence is transforming the travel industry and how you can adapt your property to meet the changing needs of travellers. Get ready to stand out in the competitive holiday rental market and make the most of the opportunities offered by the new tourism landscape.

Boost your holiday rental's presence on Instagram! Discover how to use social media to promote your holiday rental through creating original Instagram content and engaging with your guests.

The guest folder, also known as an info folder, is one of the most useful things you can provide to your guests. With a well-prepared guest folder, you ensure as a host that new holidaymakers immediately feel at home in your holiday rental.

Carnival season is very popular in Spain and with it comes an increase in demand for holiday rentals. If you're considering renting out your property during this festive period, we recommend setting the right ambience for carnival celebrations. By doing so, you'll increase the value of your home and witness how rental opportunities multiply, as guests will love staying in a themed accommodation.

We are merging the brand of our subsidiary and host solution Bookiply with the Holidu brand.

Now and then, all you need is to take some time, explore a new city, and return home feeling refreshed. And sometimes, all you need is 24 hours to do it in! One-night city breaks have become massively popular in recent years, as people turn to quick getaways that don't require taking time off work or even weeks of planning.

As tourism continues to rebound post-pandemic, more destinations worldwide are implementing, or increasing, tourist taxes to drive revenue for their local economies and reduce the negative impacts of over-tourism. But, when breaking down the costs of their holidays, many travellers might not realise how much these seemingly small tourist taxes can add up to throughout a trip… In some cases, they may even add hundreds of pounds to your holiday costs!

Working abroad has increased in popularity in recent years. However, it appears that travellers are now looking beyond short-term stints and are instead keen to commit to working remotely for a more extended period of time. For example, Google searches around workations have started to decline recently after peaking post-Covid, but "digital nomad visa" queries have continued to increase and reached an all-time high at the beginning of 2025.

For any keen traveller, business class air travel just has a certain allure about it. From a smoother check-in process and a more generous luggage allowance to exclusive lounges and enhanced in-flight entertainment, it is often compared to being in a luxury hotel at 30,000 feet. But flying business is something a lot of people feel they can only dream of though, with it having connotations of hefty price tags only feasible to the rich. Instead many default to flying economy in a bid to keep costs down. However, it turns out that flying in luxury doesn’t have to break the bank.