This change will not affect the normal activity of Spain-Holiday.com
but
Now, the four owners of Spain-Holiday.com will focus on providing the platform user with a unique experience when renting out or booking a holiday home in Spain, consolidating its activity in the tourism industry and setting up future expansion plans.
bugger. Thats not good news, its the only decent large OTA that hasn't gone the way of the others left and the only one I advertise on now.............
Oh no, could well be bad news. I was communicating with them recently and got a gut feeling this was in the offing. The name of the owner had disappeared from the site information. Guess he's built it up and pocketed the gains.I won't have anything to do with the American style of running sites, pure greed at work.
Does anyone know who's the new owner?
When they introduced the three tier subscription we stayed on the cheapest. And our enquiries crashed, we went down to only 2 new customer bookings, the rest were repeats. We selected a temporary promotion in the rankings and we got two bookings in the next 24 hours.
And, the most expensive subscription limits the number of bookings annually.
Tells a story doesn't it?
Tells me the three tier system is a massive price rise.
Hi all
I had a drop of max. 30% expected. I was on a standard subscription all the years and very satisfied with it.
but now I see a decline of a good 50 - 70% compared to the previous year.
Anyone else in the group with the same experience? did someone upgrade? and succeeded?
Or is there the Brexit, Corona Virus, bankruptcy of Thomas Cook and various airlines behind it?
volcano wrote:
Thanks Gazpacho for your explanation - doesn't look good for this year. Are you also on other lists and do you have there the same experience?
Yes, we're on Airbnb (which is useless for us) and Homeaway, which provides most of our bookings, but things have fallen off a cliff in the last few weeks.
For me the key statistic to see how SH is performing is the 'displayed in search' as it is indicative of visits to their site. In January that figure was down 59% v January 2019.
Some guests just need a sympathetic pat. On the head. With a hammer.
Marks wrote:For me the key statistic to see how SH is performing is the 'displayed in search' as it is indicative of visits to their site. In January that figure was down 59% v January 2019.
Mine were down by 60 and 70% as well.
I have renewed on a commission basis as one listing actually cost more than the one week booking in winter it generated, even on standard level.
The previous owner Claus is re launching Campaya.com which was a world wide version of SH. We have listed there since the beginning, not with much success but once a listing is running I normally keep them updated.
It has changed from pay per enquiry to commission basis.