The Accommodation Show - Hospitality Success Series!

Introducing The Accommodation Show, hosted by the engaging Bart Sobies! Dive into insightful conversations with top-notch industry experts, curated to elevate your accommodation business to new heights.Discover game-changing tips, strategies, and advice for managing and operating an array of establishments, including Short Term Rentals (STR), Hotels, Motels, Bed & Breakfasts, Airbnbs, and even Campsites. Join us on this captivating journey, as we unlock the secrets to successful accommodation management.

The Accommodation Show - Hospitality Success Series! is a business podcast hosted by Bart Sobies, with 215 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Bart Sobies hosts The Accommodation Show - Hospitality Success Series!, a business show with 215 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  How Katie Replaced Her W-2 Job With Vacation Rentals

  Aug 10, 202643 minS23

  Marriott International owns just 50 of its 9,500 hotels worldwide. They are not in the real estate business; they are in the hospitality business. In this episode of The Accommodation Show, former Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis PR director Katie Klein breaks down how to apply luxury hotel secrets to your short-term rental portfolio. Katie shares how she built a high-performing 3-property portfolio, landed a full-page feature in The New York Times, and identified her personal "unfair advantage." We discuss shifting from a real estate mindset to a guest-experience lens, pitching media outlets without paying a PR agency, and why buying a vacation rental first can unlock financial flexibility faster than traditional home ownership. Guest: Katie Klein, Host, Second Home First & Suite Success Website: secondhomefirst.com [confirm URL] In this episode, we discuss: 00:00 - Introduction & Katie Klein's Luxury Hotel Background 01:26 - Applying Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis PR Secrets to STRs 03:30 - Leaving Corporate London & Rethinking Life Goals 05:10 - Skipping a $1.4M NYC Flat to Buy a Second Home First 12:00 - Why Marriott Owns Less Than 0.5% of Its Hotels 15:12 - "Everyone Has an Unfair Advantage": Landing The NYT 28:18 - How STR Cash Flow Funded a Primary Home Renovation 38:15 - 3 Rules for Designing a Flexible Financial Future #HotelSecrets #ShortTermRentals #AccommodationShow SHOW LINKS Second Home First — secondhomefirst.com [confirm URL] Suite Success Podcast — suitesuccess.com [confirm URL] Don't forget to hit that subscribe button! This keeps us going and creating more useful content for free! ACCOMMODATION OWNERS AND MANAGERS FREE RESOURCES! Join the mailing list for freebies and critical industry updates: https://news.theaccommodationshow.com/ Join the Accommodation Owners and Managers Facebook Community: https://bit.ly/AMoFacebookCommunity Connect with Bart Sobies for industry insights, tools, and resources: https://www.ibooked.online/bart/ Catch every episode of The Accommodation Show here: https://www.theaccommodationshow.com ✨ Ready to take things up a level? Come to STRIVE: https://www.striveconferences.com ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Hotel - BNB - STR Owners! Need more direct bookings or a brand new website?The trusted tech partner you can count on. We deliver results. https://www.ibooked.online ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Disclaimer: The content shared on this YouTube channel, Podcast, or associated posts reflects personal opinions and insights. This content is not intended as legal, financial, or investment advice. Always consult with licensed professionals before making decisions. The hosts and guests disclaim liability for any consequences of using this content. Actions taken should be based on your personal due diligence. Affiliate Disclaimer:This blog, podcast & youtube channel; will occasionally contain affiliate links, which means I receive a small commission on a purchase without additional cost to you, if you buy something through my links.This show aims to educate viewers and share everything I know about improving your accommodation, STR and AirBNB business. I believe in the products and services we link to and that you may benefit from them.If you do purchase through my affiliate links; I want to thank you for your support.

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  Episode #5

  How to Become a #1 Rated Property and win awards

  Aug 3, 202633 minS23

  Awards look like vanity. Follow the money and they're anything but.Strong reviews get you noticed by the travel companies. The travel companies hand out the awards. The awards generate PR. The PR creates demand. And demand is the only thing that gives you the confidence to charge what you're worth.Marco DiDomizio and his husband left corporate careers in New York, bought an underperforming nine-room inn in 2016 with no hospitality experience between them, and spent nine years turning it into the top-rated bed and breakfast in the United States three years running and one of the top thirty hotels in the world. Then they sold it profitably in 2025.In this episode Marco walks through the actual sequence. The question he asks about every operational decision, which renovations pay back and which ones are just for you, the renovation loan they recouped in a single night, how to build a personal touchpoint into a stay when you can't be on site, and the checkout ritual that reliably turns good stays into public reviews.Every operator would like the award. Almost nobody can tell you the sequence that produces one.#BedAndBreakfast #GuestExperience #HotelMarketingDon't forget to hit that subscribe button! This also keeps us going and creating more useful content for free!ACCOMMODATION OWNERS AND MANAGERS FREE RESOURCES!Join the mailing list for freebies and critical industry updates: https://news.theaccommodationshow.com/ Join the Accommodation Owners and Managers Facebook Community:https://bit.ly/AMoFacebookCommunity Connect with Bart Sobies for industry insights, tools, and resources:https://www.ibooked.online/bart/ Catch every episode of The Accommodation Show here:https://www.theaccommodationshow.com✨ Ready to take things up a level? Come to STRIVE:https://www.striveconferences.com▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Hotel - BNB - STR Owners! Need more direct bookings or a brand new website?The trusted tech partner you can count on. We deliver results. https://www.ibooked.online ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Disclaimer: The content shared on this YouTube channel, Podcast, or associated posts reflects personal opinions and insights. This content is not intended as legal, financial, or investment advice. Always consult with licensed professionals before making decisions. The hosts and guests disclaim liability for any consequences of using this content. Actions taken should be based on your personal due diligence.Affiliate Disclaimer:This blog, podcast & youtube channel; will occasionally contain affiliate links, which means I receive a small commission on a purchase without additional cost to you, if you buy something through my links.This show aims to educate viewers and share everything I know about improving your accommodation, STR and AirBNB business. I believe in the products and services we link to and that you may benefit from them.If you do purchase through my affiliate links; I want to thank you for your support.

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  Episode #4

  How Do You Get Your First Client With Zero Properties?

  Jul 27, 202631 minS23

  She Got Hung Up On. Three Years Later She Has Nine Properties. Cathleen Cataldo's first sales call ended when the prospect asked how many properties she managed. She said she was still in the process. The woman said she wanted someone who knew what they were doing, and hung up. Three years later she runs nine short-term rentals in the Poconos, with fourteen on the way. In this episode we get into the honest version of starting a short-term rental business. Not the guru version. How she landed her first co-hosting client with no properties and no track record, the tech stack she set up before she owned anything, why she kept her corporate job for two full years, and why local knowledge is still a moat in an era of remote management. If you've been thinking about starting, Cathleen had no capital, no property, and no hospitality background. And if you've been doing this for a decade, watch what a new operator reaches for by default. The starting line has moved. Cathleen Cataldo — Founder, Discovered In Travels discoveredintravels.com In this episode, we discuss: 00:00 – Meet Cathleen Cataldo: from corporate fashion to short-term rentals 01:36 – Why she operates in the Poconos, not New York 02:15 – "You can't outsource local": the hometown advantage 03:22 – Competing in one of America's most saturated STR markets 04:28 – Amenities get the clicks, experience gets the five-star review 05:25 – How reviews drive the OTA algorithm and your rankings 07:03 – Co-hosting vs owning: how her portfolio is actually structured 07:50 – Leaving corporate America to build something of her own 08:50 – "If you build one, I'll learn how to manage it" 10:03 – The first sales call that ended with a hang-up 11:27 – Faking it till you make it (and why that never really stops) 12:46 – The internship that changed everything 15:22 – The truth about STR gurus and no-money-down promises 16:29 – Why hospitality mindset beats hospitality experience 17:30 – Keeping her corporate job for two years while building 18:28 – Stay in short-term rentals before you run one 20:15 – Setting up a PMS before owning a single property 20:59 – The full tech stack for a new STR business 23:52 – Why PriceLabs over her PMS's built-in pricing 24:36 – Direct booking sites for owned vs co-hosted properties 25:03 – Automating cleaning and keyless check-in 26:30 – Her advice: start in a market you actually know 28:07 – The local logistics most new operators overlook SHOW LINKS Discovered In Travels — https://www.discoveredintravels.com Hospitable — https://hospitable.com PriceLabs — https://hello.pricelabs.co Turno — https://turno.com Schlage — https://www.schlage.com Don't forget to hit that subscribe button! This also keeps us going and creating more useful content for free! ACCOMMODATION OWNERS AND MANAGERS FREE RESOURCES! Join the mailing list for freebies and critical industry updates: https://news.theaccommodationshow.com/ Join the Accommodation Owners and Managers Facebook Community: https://bit.ly/AMoFacebookCommunity Connect with Bart Sobies for industry insights, tools, and resources: https://www.ibooked.online/bart/ Catch every episode of The Accommodation Show here: https://www.theaccommodationshow.com ✨ Ready to take things up a level? Come to STRIVE: https://www.striveconferences.com ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Hotel - BNB - STR Owners! Need more direct bookings or a brand new website? The trusted tech partner you can count on. We deliver results. https://www.ibooked.online ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Disclaimer: The content shared on this YouTube channel, Podcast, or associated posts reflects personal opinions and insights. This content is not intended as legal, financial, or investment advice. Always consult with licensed professionals before making decisions. The hosts and guests disclaim liability for any consequences of using this content. Actions taken should be based on your personal due diligence.

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  Episode #1

  Bootstrapping to 700,000+ Listings: Inside the PriceLabs Strategy

  Jul 25, 20261h 5mS23

  I have always believed that looking for your next door can blind you to the gold mine right in front of you, but scaling past seven hundred thousand listings while keeping your core values entirely intact is something else altogether. To open the new season, we are looking directly inside the engine room of one of the most significant data companies in the short-term rental industry. 00:00 - Introduction: The 700,000 listing milestone ️ 01:09 - Managing cross-border friction across an 11-hour gap 02:51 - Adding 65,000 properties in three months while bootstrapped 04:52 - Chicago origin story: Solving a spare summer bedroom problem 05:23 - The united approach: Applying aviation data models to vacation rentals ✈️ 09:04 - Scaling to 350 team members without outside venture funding 10:40 - The mathematics of international scale: Numbers require no translation 13:15 - Peeling the onion of global expansion and hyper-local data trends 15:22 - Mitigating known and unknown product risks iteratively ⚙️ 18:09 - Backend simplicity: Preventing maintenance from compounding 20:16 - Function over form: The raw JavaScript MVP that outlasted pretty designs 23:55 - Deeply understanding your problem and staying in minimum viable product mode 27:25 - The modern revenue manager: Shifting from manual tweaks to high-level strategy 34:17 - Overcoming adoption friction: Bringing the offline travel industry online ️ 40:04 - The Equal Pedestal: Cracking the co-founder trust framework over 12 years ⚖️ 57:01 - Communication flows: Eliminating check-up overhead through absolute trust SHOW LINKS: PriceLabs Dashboard: https://pricelabs.co PriceLabs 2026 Strategy Updates: https://hello.pricelabs.co/blog/ Evan Haskel Revenue Management (Mentioned): https://www.synchronest.com The Accommodation Show: https://www.theaccommodationshow.com #PriceLabs #RevenueManagement #ShortTermRentals ACCOMMODATION OWNERS AND MANAGERS FREE RESOURCES! Join the mailing list for freebies and critical industry updates: https://news.theaccommodationshow.com/ Join the Accommodation Owners and Managers Facebook Community: https://bit.ly/AMoFacebookCommunity Connect with Bart Sobies for industry insights, tools, and resources: https://www.ibooked.online/bart/ Catch every episode of The Accommodation Show here: https://www.theaccommodationshow.com ✨ Ready to take things up a level? Come to STRIVE: https://www.striveconferences.com ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Hotel - BNB - STR Owners! Need more direct bookings or a brand new website? The trusted tech partner you can count on. We deliver results. https://www.ibooked.online ​​​​​​​​​​​ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Disclaimer: The content shared on this YouTube channel, Podcast, or associated posts reflects personal opinions and insights. This content is not intended as legal, financial, or investment advice. Always consult with licensed professionals before making decisions. The hosts and guests disclaim liability for any consequences of using this content. Actions taken should be based on your personal due diligence. Affiliate Disclaimer: This blog, podcast & youtube channel; will occasionally contain affiliate links, which means I receive a small commission on a purchase without additional cost to you, if you buy something through my links. This show aims to educate viewers and share everything I know about improving your accommodation, STR and AirBNB business. I believe in the products and services we link to and that you may benefit from them. If you do purchase through my affiliate links; I want to thank you for your support.

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  The Accommodation Show - Hospitality Success Series!

  Stand Out or Drop Your Prices. There Is No Third Option.

  Jul 13, 202643 min

  There are only two ways to survive an oversupplied market. You stand out, or you drop your prices. Most operators pick the second option without realising they've made a choice at all. Bali's Airbnb listings have grown from roughly 40,000 to over 70,000. Supply overtook demand in 2025. Market ADRs have dropped 20 to 30 percent in two years. Villa Finder's ADR dropped 6 percent. In this episode I sit down with Daniel Rouquette, founder of Villa Finder, to break down exactly how they did it. The Villa Positioning Plan, guest personas built with AI, the record player in the hero photo, the $200 family kit that changes what market you compete in, and how to make invisible service visible through reviews. Whatever market you're in, supply is probably growing faster than demand. Bali is just the loudest version of what's happening everywhere. This is the playbook for holding your rates while everyone else quietly cuts theirs. scuss: 00:00 – Introduction: Daniel Rouquette, founder of Villa Finder01:16 – The Bali gold rush is over: standing out in an overcrowded market03:13 – The three big topics: regulation, oversupply, and AI04:10 – ADRs down 20-30%: how supply overtook demand in 202505:27 – Why $500 salaries kept Bali from automating (and why AI changes that)09:05 – The numbers: 40,000 to 70,000+ listings, and the missing European market11:22 – Who stays in villas: families, groups, and the supply problem14:08 – The Villa Positioning Plan: personas, AI research, and standing out14:47 – The record player trick (picked up at STRive Melbourne)16:37 – How Villa Finder held ADR to -6% while the market fell 20%19:54 – Making invisible service visible: reviews that name staff, 15-minute callbacks24:52 – Standardisation vs personalisation across a portfolio26:46 – The $200 family kit: pool toys, baby cots, and changing your category27:31 – Why Bali never automated, and the opportunity that just opened31:10 – 50 staff vs 5: the real difference between Bali and Western operations33:10 – The rise of operations management as its own software category35:53 – Daniel's AI bootcamp: train the person who knows the process, not the techie39:51 – The one thing to do this week: block time to think with AI41:25 – Wrap-up #STRPositioning #BaliVillas #ShortTermRentals Don't forget to hit that subscribe button! This also keeps us going and creating more useful content for free! ACCOMMODATION OWNERS AND MANAGERS FREE RESOURCES! 📧Join the mailing list for freebies and critical industry updates: https://news.theaccommodationshow.com/🌍 Join the Accommodation Owners and Managers Facebook Community:https://bit.ly/AMoFacebookCommunity🔗 Connect with Bart Sobies for industry insights, tools, and resources:https://www.ibooked.online/bart/🎙 Catch every episode of The Accommodation Show here:https://www.theaccommodationshow.com✨ Ready to take things up a level? Come to STRIVE:https://www.striveconferences.com ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬🥊 Hotel - BNB - STR Owners! 🥊 Need more direct bookings or a brand new website?The trusted tech partner you can count on. We deliver results. 🥊 https://www.ibooked.online 🥊▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Disclaimer: The content shared on this YouTube channel, Podcast, or associated posts reflects personal opinions and insights. This content is not intended as legal, financial, or investment advice. Always consult with licensed professionals before making decisions. The hosts and guests disclaim liability for any consequences of using this content. Actions taken should be based on your personal due diligence.

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