Trip Advisor Tips, Tricks or general strategy that works to generate more bookings?

[Alex Scattareggia]

Has anyone had any significant success using TripAdvisor as an OTA for their short term rentals? 

We recently started experimenting with it across all of our rentals and got one booking over the last 6 months but nothing beyond that.  There are some great features that I actually like over the major OTA´s (including a way better fee structure) but we are not generating any views, let alone bookings.  There isn´t much information out there and obviously I am aware that the renter base is much smaller compared to the big boys but, I am curious if anyone has some insight.  Thank you in advance! 

Would love to provide complementary few nights stay at one of our places in Cabo San Lucas, Oaxaca or Puerto Vallarta if anyone can really bring the heat on the Trip Advisor secrets! Thanks in advance,

Alex 

[Michael Baum]

Hey @Alex Scattareggia, TripAdvisor doesn't really put much marketing into their STR side.

I don't think I have ever seen a Trip Advisor ad anywhere. AirBNB and VRBO all the time. Now Booking.com as well.

As a side note, you should do a post about investing in those markets. @Mike Lambert is one guy who really knows the market in Mexico but it would be nice to see the properties and talk about how you went about setting them up and managing them.

There are pretty regular questions about investing in Mexico.