STR Global Unlocked with Simon Lehmann: Unfiltered knowledge for the short term rental industry
Hosted by Simon Lehmann · Simon Lehmann
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- 2025
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About STR Global Unlocked with Simon Lehmann: Unfiltered knowledge for the short term rental industry
Simon Lehmann talks to the people running short-term rental at scale. Operators, platform CEOs and investors, on the decisions that separate businesses that scale from ones that plateau. No panel-discussion politeness and no vendor pitches. Guests have included the co-founder of Vacasa, the president and CEO of Booking Holdings, and the founder of Holidu. The conversations go where the operating problems actually are: unit economics, distribution, AI, capital, and what breaks when you grow. Simon is a former CEO of Interhome, co-founder and chairman of Vacasa Europe, past president of Phocuswright, and sat on the HomeAway board before the IPO. He now advises operators, investors and hospitality technology vendors. New episodes every Tuesday. simonlehmann.net
- Publisher
- Simon Lehmann
- Category
- business · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 Oct 2025
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
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42 of 54 episodes have a transcript.
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046: The Biggest Lie in Vacation Rental Reviews! | Ashley Ching
Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The best surprise is no surprise. So why has vacation rental never had its Holiday Inn moment, if you wish, for exactly the reason that you just mentioned? Why is that? Yeah. So it's funny, you know, when I was thinking about this a bit as we were writing this case study, hotels and vacation rentals have been around for thousands of years, centuries, right? And so... The question is not why these forms of lodging have suddenly appeared. It's why an industry that operated without broadly recognized standards for centuries eventually needed them. And so to your point, for hotels, that turning point was in the 1950s and 60s and 70s. […]
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