Generating Rental Bookings with Incentives and Giveaways
August 30th, 2007 by Jeremiah Gall jeremiah@flipkey.comIt’s the week before Labor Day and summer is coming to a close. What do you do if you’re a property manager looking at a calendar of unbooked vacation rental units for the next month?
- Slashing prices might bring in last minute renters. This is a popular choice among vacation rental property managers, with last minute discounts ranging from 10-20%.
- Offer free or discounted activities through local services and area attractions.
- Sweepstakes and raffle incentives.
Below we’ve included sample booking incentives that we’ve noticed, some of which are more appealing than others.
Twiddy (Outer Banks, NC): Rent for a Week and Receive a Free Jeep Rental ($800 value)
DeepCreek (Mt. Railey, MD): 20% Discount on Rental Price and Free High Speed Internet
LoonRes (Lincoln, NH): Stay a Week and Receive a Free Tank of Gas
SunRealtyNc (Outer Banks, NC): Free Fishing for 8 with Home Rental
GrandbyVacationHomes (Grandby, CO): Golf for 4 and Rafting for 8 with Week Long Vacation Rental
MountainChalets (Gatlinburg, TN): Book a Cabin - Win a Jeep (1 in 15,000 chance of winning)
FloridaSpiritVacationHome (Orlando, FL): Six Night Stay, Receive $50 Gas and $75 Grocery Coupons
If you have others to add to the list, please send them in via comments to this post.
August 30th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
We are a comination Hotel & Property Management operation in Finger Lakes Region of New York. We have cooked up a kind of universal promotion that fits well in almost any promotion. It’s called Secret Places, and best of all it’s FREE to “them” and “us”.
Secret Places
We Live Here and We Love IT! Best of all we willing to show you why!
Secret Places is a customized walking / driving tour FREE to anyone who asks. (Of course if you’re a registered guest at one of our Skaneateles Suites Properties you will get the really good stuff!)
Free for asking, just walk up to any member of the Suite Dreams Team. Then, you tell us about your interests; wineries, history, shopping, outdoor adventure, sitting on bar stools or, well, you tell us.
Then we scratch our heads and give you a walking or driving map of some very cool Secret Places to Go and See or Do. Best of all, it’s FREE!