What is an OTA? Online travel agencies explained for hosts
OTA stands for online travel agency — the marketplaces where travellers actually book: Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Expedia and dozens more.
Why OTAs matter to your income
Each OTA has its own audience: Booking.com dominates European city trips, Vrbo skews to US family stays, Airbnb owns the experience-seeker market. A property listed on one channel is invisible to the others’ travellers — which is why occupancy usually jumps when a listing goes multi-channel.
The catch: every OTA is its own job
Separate logins, separate calendars, separate message inboxes, separate content rules. Managing three OTAs by hand roughly triples the admin — and one missed calendar update causes the classic double booking.
How Stays handles OTAs for you
We publish one listing to the leading OTAs with a single synced calendar, keep content consistent everywhere, and answer guests from every channel in one place — you never open an extranet again.
The honest answers.
Which booking channels do you publish to?
The leading ones — Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Expedia, Holidu and HomeToGo among them. The exact set depends on your property type and region; we publish wherever your property earns most, with one synced calendar so double bookings can't happen.
How long until my property is live and earning?
Your listing is generated within minutes of sending photos — you review and approve it the same day. Publishing then takes a few days at most, as each channel runs its own checks, so most properties are bookable within the week. For comparison, human managers advertise 10–14 days.
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We'll send back your finished listing within 48 hours — free, no commitment. If you like it, we publish it and your property starts earning.
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