Villa World is the ultimate vacation property rental site providing web marketing and related services to both renters’ looking to find that perfect vacation home and property owners who wish to advertise their rental properties to a world wide audience.

The main objective of the company is to connect prospective customers with quick and easy access to thousands of rental homes around the world. We achieve this by providing a sophisticated easy to use search engine together with a virtual private website for individual property owners. In this way Villa-World makes it easy for visitors to find their perfect vacation rental home and save money by booking directly online with the homeowner.

Villa-World does not handle any of the bookings that may be transacted through the system, or represent any of the owners on our site and we are not a property management company, realtor or an agent for owners wishing to sell or maintain their properties.

To become a Member of Villa World, homeowners or their agents have to register and submit information about their property or properties. Each rental property is listed as a separate series of linked web pages and shows rental rates, photos, an availability calendar and detailed information about the property and its amenities.

Villa-World is more than just a brochure for your home, but is also a pro-active marketing solution designed to put your properties in front of a world-wide target audience and offers advertisers some of the most comprehensive, innovative and powerful features that can found anywhere on the web.

The concept of advertising and marketing of vacation rental properties has been revolutionized with the popularity of the Internet. On Villa-World for example, you can provide comprehensive details about your property, display full-color photos, rental rates, show the property availability calendar, see what guest have written in the guest book and provide links to other local travel information and even book the property on-line directly with the homeowner and all this to a global market place.

As an owner, you have several options for advertising your property. You could print a brochure or advertise in a newspaper or even create and maintain your own Web site which would give you complete control over all aspects of your Internet advertising. However, whether you develop the site yourself or employ a team of web developers it can be a costly and time consuming business to build a web site, especially one that has a Management Booking System that provides online booking and automated communications such as can be found on the Villa-World site.

Another option is to list your property with Villa-World and take advantage of a website that was designed with a host of practical and functional features that make this site stand out from the rest.

Villa-World sets new standards in web marketing and was specifically designed with property owners in mind as the ultimate vacation rental site. More than three years of design and development have been undertaken to ensure that this site addresses all of the requirements that owners’ have in order to ensure their home is presented in an uncomplicated professional manner, resulting in a constantly booked property.

Other options include:

Cost-effectiveness	Advertise your property all year at a fraction of the price of a limited run of print advertising.
Scope and Range	Extend your scope of advertising far beyond the reach of local or regional newspapers and capture the attention of a world wide audience.
Targeted audience	Your property can be seen daily by thousands of qualified viewers who are already pre-disposed to rent a vacation property.
Ongoing marketing	Villa-World has a policy of investing substantial sums in continuous improvement and marketing of its sites in order to attract new visitors and welcome return visitors. You can only benefit from our efforts and marketing.

As a property owner you can choose to advertise on just one vacation rental website, but because advertising on the web is so cost-effective, it makes perfect sense to advertise on two, three or more sites. Very often visitors looking for a rental property usually visit more than one site—so you can cost-effectively multiply your booking potential by listing with other sites.

Villa-World is more than just a brochure for your home, but is also a pro-active marketing solution designed to put your properties in front of a world-wide target audience and offers advertisers some of the most comprehensive, innovative and powerful features that can found anywhere on the web and includes some of the following features:

• Comprehensive Property Management module which includes an on-line personalized booking management system with setup pages for each individual property.
• Free online availability calendar with both individual and global property calendars (if you have multiple properties).
• Free online guest book.
• Simple and effortless procedure for the uploading of up to 12 titled photo images automatically sized and sent direct to your web page.
• Unlimited, password protected instant editing of your property description, rates, amenities, images and any other information.
• Sophisticated inquiry handling, with a built-in automatic response.
• Instant previewing showing you exactly how the design and text layout of your easy to read personal web pages will look prior to you making payment for publishing.
• Facility to print a full detailed color brochure showing page layouts and photographs.
• Tool Bars that give you the option to personalize your individual web pages by using text sizing, colors, bullet points, web links and other features.
• Detailed web statistics and hit counters.
• All past enquiries archived and available for you to review easily and quickly.
• Flexible rate tariff screens that allow you to publish as many different rates as you wish and all shown in your native currency with a real time online currency converter for renters.
• All rental enquiries forwarded up to three different private email addresses.
• Each individual property submitted for indexing by search engines.
• Easy to follow step by step guide to help fill out the required information.
• Message forum for users to discuss any topics or questions they wish to address.
• Property for Sale module.
• Full support from our team to help should you require assistance.
• Extremely cost effective and economical way of advertising your property with no set up, management or hidden fees.

Before becoming a Member of Villa World, vacation home owners or their agents have to register with Villa-World and submit information about their property or properties. Each rental property is listed as a separate series of linked web pages and shows an availability calendar, rental rates, photos, and detailed information about the property and its amenities.

Members are encouraged to login on a regular basis to update all aspects of their entry including the availability calendar. Members also have access to statistics on how many people have visited their pages and viewed their property.

Prospective property renters can use Villa-World to look for their perfect vacation rental home by using the powerful built-in search engine that allows renters to seek out geographically (e.g. country, and then state, or city) or by the amenities and facilities that the property has to offer (e.g. wheelchair accessibility, pet friendly vacation home, beach front rental etc.). Another powerful addition to the search facilities is the ability to filter the search to find a number of choices and then perform a ‘Preferred Dates’ search to find which properties are available for your chosen dates.

Renters can then inquire or make a booking online directly to the home owner or their agent either by calling (if the phone number is published) or by filling out an online booking/inquiry form that is forwarded to the owner by Email. Renters can then inquire or make a booking online directly to the home owner or their agent either by calling (if the phone number is published) or by filling out an online booking/inquiry form that is forwarded to the owner by Email.

Owners and/or their agents are responsible for the accuracy of the information on their property listings. Owners and agents providing text and photos assert they own or have been granted license to use the text and photos on this site. Villa World is not responsible for any action, or omission of action, by any renter obtained by the use of this site.

Please see our Disclaimer for more information.

As with any vacation travel, we highly recommend that you purchase travel insurance that covers your holiday and offers protection against unseen circumstances.

Villa-World does not handle any of the bookings that may be transacted through the system, or represent any of the owners on our site and we are not a property management company, realtor or an agent for owners wishing to sell or maintain their properties.