Is Trip Advisor Worth it at this time?

Kacey, Amalea & Brooklyn G
Oct 31, 2023 11:19 AM
Joined Jun, 2023 1 post

We have 1, soon to be 2 large rentals in TX. We have Airbnb, VRBO and our own direct booking website (and recently added booking.com). With there not being a OR integration with TA, is it even worth listing there? Pricelabs doesn't have direct integration with them, so it doesn't even look like we can utilize our dynamic pricing - can just set our weeknight and weekend rate and then everything would have to be managed separately - hopefully there is at least an ical integration. 

I haven't heard of anyone booking a vacation rental thru TA, but didn't want to rule it out if other have found it to generate stays. 

Thank you, 
Brooklyn 

Ed T
5 days ago
Joined Nov, 2023 30 posts

Kacey,  

I"'d say no.  In fact I'd say no to any channel that doesn't have an API interface with our PMS, OwnerRez.  There are plenty of other channels that are growing with the STR.  Trip Advisor is going the opposite direction.  They quit supporting their API so now you are looking at ical and interfacing your other modules.  As to volume, I used them back in ancient times and even then they accounted for less than 2% of my bookings at it was just Vrbo Airbnb and TripKey.   Look the API channel list in OwnerRez there are so many others to add that have far better interface support.