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Stay Booked
Practical marketing guidance for UK holiday-let owners.
The Host Academy
Free Guides for Airbnb & Holiday Let Owners
I photograph over 100 holiday lets a year across the South West and South Wales. I see what makes listings convert, what puts guests off, and what separates fully-booked properties from those gathering dust on page three. These guides share everything I've learned, practical, transparent, no guru-speak.
Listing & Photos
Your photos are doing more work than any other part of your listing. These guides cover everything from shot selection and styling to writing descriptions that convert browsers into bookers.
Pricing & Occupancy
Setting the right price is half the battle. These guides cover dynamic pricing strategies, seasonal rate-setting, and how to fill the calendar during quieter months without racing to the bottom.
Holiday Let Photography PackagesMarketing & Direct Bookings
Relying on a single platform is risky and expensive. Learn how to market your property across multiple channels, build a direct booking pipeline, and reduce your dependence on OTA commissions.
Guest Experience
Great photos get the booking, but guest experience earns the reviews. From first-message templates to welcome books that generate repeat bookings, these guides cover the full guest journey.
The Holiday Let Marketing Playbook
A free 15-page PDF compiling the best checklists, pricing frameworks, and marketing tactics from the Host Academy. Written for UK holiday let owners who want more bookings without more platform fees.
Free Tools for Hosts
Interactive tools to help you optimise your listing, calculate your returns, and identify what's holding your property back.
Real Results from Real Properties
See how professional photography transformed these holiday lets. Each case study includes before-and-after booking data and the specific approach I took.
Why Listen to a Photographer?
I'm Matthew Evans, a property and holiday let photographer based in Somerset. I shoot inside over 100 short-let properties every year, from thatched cottages in the Cotswolds to city apartments in Bristol and coastal lets in Devon and Cornwall.
That gives me a perspective most "hosting experts" don't have. I see the listings that are fully booked and the ones that aren't. I see what makes a guest stop scrolling, what makes them click, and what makes them book. I notice the patterns in pricing, presentation, and marketing that separate thriving properties from struggling ones.
These guides are the result of that experience. They're written for UK holiday let owners who want practical, honest advice without the hype. No affiliate links to tools I've never used, no recycled American advice that doesn't apply here, and no upselling to a £2,000 course. Just the things I've seen work, shared freely.
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Stay Booked
How UK holiday lets stay booked, from the first photograph to the fully fledged business. Available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback.
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Professional photography that helps your property stand out. Fixed prices, no hidden fees, no fuss.