The Short-Term Rental Hosts Spending Big to Trick Out Their Vacation Properties

5/5/2025

Short-term rental hosts are enlisting interior-design specialists and adding features like golf simulators and hammock gardens to attract wealthy travelers. Since 2019, rental bookings in all price tiers have increased, but only in the luxury tier have they increased faster than the overall number of listings has, according to AirDNA. Wealthy travelers, more immune to inflation and economic uncertainty than budget renters, continued to travel in greater numbers, says Jamie Lane, AirDNA’s chief economist.

Wall Street Journal (04/29/25) Cecilie Rohwedder