the blog

Filling a place to stay on this coast

What I’ve learned working here, written to be useful even if you never hire me. Every article also exists as a PDF, freely available.

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150+ camps compete for fewer travellers in low season. How to swap platform commissions for direct bookings, and which market to target first.

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Ten rooms over a twelve-week low season is €8,640 handed to a booking platform. Four steps to take that money back, and a twelve-week plan to do it.

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108 hostels post the same sunsets. Here is what a remote worker actually checks before booking thirty nights — and how to prove it on Instagram.

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A hundred reviews from 2024 weigh less than thirty-five from this year. The five silent bugs costing you direct sales — and the fix.