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It certainly seems to be a trend in the UK – another site ‘Bed&Fed’ popped up in the comments on here today that claims to be a middle ground between B&Bs and couchsurfing.

It all depends on the destination, the type of market that destination attracts, and the average length of stay for that destination.

In some destinations the trend is quite the reverse because the core market for that destination is becoming increasingly more time poor by the year (hence the stay is shorter & more reliant on paid services). This translates into the creation of clever holiday packaging by suppliers, in addition to the consumer wanting to reward themselves for their hard working year, they want to “travel & see more in the short time” rather than be “shopping, peeling & cooking vegetables”.

Some property investors have been burned due to this miss read “phenomena” and have turned to travel distributors like us for help in selling their empty apartments after thinking there was a viable market for them, which they would sell direct.

In our Accommodation Booking site for Vanuatu we have found that self catering accommodation suppliers do much better if they are NOT in our Villas & Apartment self catering section but rather in the more conventional hotel room categories as the searches in the self catering is too small.