Capturing all those special moments

Thinking about booking a professional photo shoot of your holiday accommodation? There’s a few things to consider to make sure you get the very best results. And that can take a bit of planning. Luckily, our experienced team have some top practical tips to help,...

Sharing Social Media Tips: a chat with owners

The Virtual Coffee & Chat calls with owners are getting slicker every time! The most recent one focused on getting more from your social media pages and we were joined by Katie from The Holiday Hive. As well as being a fellow holiday accommodation owner, Katie...

Tweaking your OTA listings – what we chatted about

The topic of the second virtual coffee and chat session we had with owners was OTA listings. Love them or loathe them, Online Travel Agents (like Booking and Airbnb) have a fantastic reach – and not many can compete with their marketing budget. Plus...

Lets talk about bookings – a chat with owners

At ACT Studios, we spend a lot of time speaking to many holiday accommodation owners. Both here in the UK and increasingly more in the USA. So we get to chat about how things are going, if booking trends are changing, the type of guests they attract, booking sources...

“Direct bookings saved me £20k in 2022”

In this short video, we chat about how many bookings Lizzy gets via Airbnb and how many she gets direct. Before getting her own book direct website, the majority of Lizzy’s bookings came through Airbnb. She did get some direct bookings from people enquiring via...