[PANEL] Digital Nomads and Long Term Bookings
Channel: TripsCommunity
Date: 2020-09-10

Main takeaways:
- Digital Nomads are a growing species
- They are just a tiny part of another, much bigger, new animal: the one who needs to sleep and at the same time WORK in your property.
- They need specific things: fast Wi-Fi, good chair and so on.
- The upgrade is not hard or expensive, the opportunity enormous.



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Is the "Era of the Almighty Tourist" over?
Will the short terms bookers still have the monopoly of the spaces we rent?

Or will we have to learn to deal with other kinds of people?

Who are the digital nomads? What do they book? How? What's their budget? What do they need?
Are these people more likely to book direct in order to avoid the high fees?

We asked them:

- Sabrina Andrea Sachs is a digital nomad, Former management consultant and sr. project manager at amazon EU, currently a digital entrepreneur and online marketing strategist. 
https://www.inchiostroandpaper.com

- Sam Nattress is a digital nomad and remote copywriter for sustainability startups.
He writes as he travels through Europe and South East Asia.
Since 2012 he has called close to 20 different cities home, from the digital nomad capital of Chiang Mai in Thailand to a tiny Polish village outside Katowice.
He is currently extending his tourist visa for the third time in Da Nang, Vietnam, where he is involved in the rock climbing, writing and entrepreneur communities.

- Deborah Labi is a creative minded entrepreneur with a passion for travel, food, people and hospitality.
She's been living out of a suitcase for the majority of the last 10 years, working from 'home', wherever that may be, also defined by wherever she unpacks her coffee pot.
Constantly sprouting ideas, she is:
- Founder of Have You Got: a global guest referral platform for Short Term Rentals.
- Co-Host of the Book Direct Show: driving this is her favourite word in the English language, FREEDOM. Hence business independence and direct bookings!
-  Founder of Ruby's Holiday Residences: offering short and long stay holiday accommodation in Sydney.
https://www.haveyougot.com